The valley commences with broad undulations, covered with young forests of bamboo, which grow thickly along the streams, the dwarf fan-palm, the stately Palmyra, and the mgungu. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
Add scattered clusters of date-trees, domineering over clumps of fan-palm; and, lastly, marvellous to relate, a few hundred feet of greensward, of regular turf — a luxury not expected in North – Western ❋ Unknown (2003)
Thorn-trees are abundant; fan-palm bush grows in patches; and we came upon what looked like a flowing stream ruffled by the morning breeze: the guides declared that it is a rain-pool, dry as a bone in summer. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The lower levels are furrowed with their threads of sand, beds of rain-torrents discharged from the mountains; and each is edged by brighter growths of thorn and fan-palm. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The women wore very neatly fringed girdles hanging loose about their loins, and shaded themselves with large fan-palm leaves. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Nile Valley, with tamarisk-thickets, and tufts of fan-palm. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At a short distance from the house, beneath a fan-palm, was a group of young girls, so entirely absorbed in the congenial task of arranging one another's abundant tresses, and adorning themselves with flowers, that they did not observe our approach. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)
You have seen the palms, the tall sword-palm with its great spike of snowy bloom in the spring, the fan-palm whose dried and trimmed leaves are really used for fans, and, perhaps, the date-palm. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)
The beach was lined with the areca, or fan-palm tree, from which the well-known liquor called toddy is procured. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
They began at once to put up a shed similar to those of the Dayaks, but usually their shelters for the night are of the rudest fashion, and as they have only the scantiest of clothing they then cover themselves with mats made from the leaves of the fan-palm. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)
As they went, a band of natives preceded them in regular line of march, shouting "Taboo, taboo!" at short intervals, especially as they neared any group of fan-palm cottages. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
I saw but two kinds of palm, the fan-palm, and _Phoenix_: the latter is characteristic of the driest locality. ❋ Unknown (1864)
_Phoenix_ (Date) alone ferments, and is distilled; while in other parts of India, the _Borassus_ (fan-palm) is chiefly employed. ❋ Unknown (1864)
A low vegetation covers them, chiefly made up of a dwarf - palm (_Phoenix paludosa_) and small mangroves, with a few scattered trees on the higher bank that runs along the water's edge, consisting of fan-palm, toddy-palm, and _Terminalia. ❋ Unknown (1864)
_Melia, Casuarina, _ etc. Tanks were the prominent features: chains of them, full of Indian water-lilies, being fringed with rows of the fan-palm, and occasionally the Indian date. ❋ Unknown (1864)
_ The Date or toddy-palm and fan-palm are very abundant and tall: each had a pot hung under the crown. ❋ Unknown (1864)
Some immense camphor-wood trees were among the most conspicuous, and there were several specimens of a graceful fan-palm, as well as clumps of the long-leaved Rofia. ❋ Francis B. Pearson (1859)
Hot-houses for delicate plants are hardly needed in winter, and the fan-palm flourishes as it does at Singapore. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)
We had often read of the fan-palm, but they are much more curious to see than to read about, being here presented in their most thriving aspect. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)
