In our tradition, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon, is sitting with a young companion of his by the name of Ibn Umar and others who are elders when a spadix of a date-palm tree was brought to him. ❋ Imam Khalid Latif (2011)
Quran 41:53, and It is He Who sends down rain from the skies: with it We produce vegetation of all kinds: from some We produce green crops, out of which We produce grain, heaped up at harvest; out of the date-palm and its sheaths come clusters of dates hanging low and near: and gardens of grapes, and olives, and pomegranates. ... ❋ Ph.D. Peter Ochs (2011)
Ibn Umar says that everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas and I thought of the date-palm tree but felt shy to answer the others. ❋ Imam Khalid Latif (2011)
Herodotus mentions date-palm trees growing "in great numbers over the whole of the flat country" of ancient Babylon. ❋ Aram Bakshian Jr. (2011)
Its turf was a mountainous region, not the date-palm Iraq of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, but a zone of rolling foothills set against snowcapped peaks. ❋ C. J. Chivers (2010)
'A comb, the hair knotted on it, and the outer skin of the pollen of the male date-palm.' ❋ Unknown (2010)
She could smell the mist from the grass sprinklers on the center ground and the flowers blooming in the window boxes of the motel at the intersection, a watered date-palm oasis in the midst of a desert, a reminder that a person always had choices. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)
I learn too that they are amphibious and that at night they graze the fields, for they eat the grass as cattle and rooks do; they enjoy the ripe fruit of the date-palm and therefore shake the trees with their coils, which being supple and capable of embracing, they fling round them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Dig anywhere in that country and instead of coming up with oil or date-palm roots or garbage or sewer lines or graves, you will find nothing but weapons caches! ❋ Unknown (2008)
A hedgehog once too up his abode by the side of a date-palm, whereon roosted a wood-pigeon and his wife that had built their next there and lived a life of ease and enjoyment. ❋ Unknown (2006)
While hangovers have plagued revelers since early hominids kicked back with some date-palm wine, science still doesn't have a good understanding of how your I-love-everybody yuletide cheer turns into such a biological bah-humbug. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He turned off the road into the alley that lay between the tavern compound and the date-palm garden, but he did not pause at the gate. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
Noticeable among the many trees were the lofty Hyphaene and Borassus palms; the graceful wild date-palm, with its fruit in golden clusters, and the umbrageous mokononga, of cypress form, with its dark-green leaves and scarlet fruit. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Guy A: [Mark's] [been in there] for a damn long time.
Guy B: Yeah, he had [a date with rosie palms]. ❋ Rosie Palms' Pimp. (2011)
Dude, [did you] [date Rosy Palm and her five sisters] [last night]? ❋ Derek M. (2006)
You: I've got [a date] tonight!
[Your mate]: Yeah I heard! [A date with mrs palm and her 5 lovely daughters]! ❋ Anonymous (2003)
Person A: "Dude, she [stood] me up, yo!"
Person B: "Don't worry, man; you can always date your [palm] by going on a palm date!"
Person A: "Aw no, [that'll] be the tenth time this week!"
Person B: "Don"t hurt yourself." ❋ The Dirtbag (2013)
