"Carob" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all, there was a severe famine in that country; and he began to be in want. [15:15]And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his field to feed swine. [15:16]And he desired to fill his stomach with the carob pods which the swine eat; and no ...
— The New Testament • Various
... (in the same botanical family as beans and peas) trees such as acacia, carob, and alder usually become humus within a year. So do some others like ash, cherry, and elm. More resistant types take two years; these include oak, birch, beech, and maple. Poplar leaves, and pine, Douglas fir, and larch needles are very slow to decompose and may take three years or ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon
... object for the purpose, being so used all over Asia. Some authorities believe that in the time of Moses the palm leaf was the ordinary writing-material. Olive-leaves, again, were thick and hard, while carob-leaves (St. John's bread), besides being smooth, long, and broad, were evergreen, and thus eminently fitted for writing. Walnut shells, pomegranate skins, leaves of gourds, onion-leaves, lettuce-heads, even the horns ...
— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams
... strange-scented shade of the great dark carob tree I came down the steps with my pitcher And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
... find in the order Leguminosae, and especially in the section Mimosae, plants whose pods are edible. Examples of this fact are numerous. As regards the Mediterranean region, it suffices to cite the classic carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), which also is of African nationality, but which is wanting in the warm region ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various |
