"Cherry tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lodged in Major Carter's house until the trial which was held under a cherry tree at the corner of Water and Superior streets. Alfred Kelly prosecuted for the State, and Johnson was one of the jury. Omic was convicted and sentenced to be hung. Johnson, who sat on the jury that condemned him, was now employed to build the gallows to hang the criminal. When ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... beautiful," said Norah, "though I don't quite understand it. I seem to feel a sort of connection between the doctor and the cherry tree, too." ...
— The Pleasant Street Partnership - A Neighborhood Story • Mary F. Leonard
... appeared like two emerald bands through a land of red, bordering a stream the tint of the aged pottery found along its shores. We were continually finding new trees and strange shrubs. Beside the cottonwoods and the willows there was an occasional wild-cherry tree; in the shrubs were the service-berry, and the squaw-berry, with sticky, acid-tasting fruit. The cacti were small, and excepting the prickly pear were confined nearly altogether to a small "pin-cushion" cactus, growing a little ...
— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb
... pipes, quite different from the flexible tube of the hookah and narghile, are of two kinds, the kablioun or long pipe, and the chibouque or short pipe. Some of the stems of the kablioun, made of cherry tree, jasmine, wild plum, and ebony, are five feet in length, and are bored with a kind of gimlet. The workman, placing the gimlet above the long, slender branchlet of wood, bores half the length, and then reverses the position ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... I. Then I grabbed her two hands and shook them as if her arms had been branches of a young cherry tree, dropping fruit. ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
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