"Laurel-tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clove-tree is a native of the Molucca Islands, particularly Amboyna, and attains the height of a laurel-tree, and no verdure is ever seen under it. From the extremities of the branches quantities of flowers grow, first white; then they become green, and next red and hard, when they have arrived at their clove state. When they become dry, they ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... winter nights grow long, And winds without blow cold, We sit in a ring round the warm wood-fire, And listen to stories old! And we try to look grave, (as maids should be,) When the men bring in boughs of the Laurel-tree. O the Laurel, the evergreen tree! The poets have ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various |
