At Via Garibaldi 5A/7, Anna Maria Costa presides over Emilio Borsi, a.k.a. L'Elixir, a brick-walled, industrial-looking space with wooden display shelves overflowing with artisanal honeys, figured olivewood kitchen implements, and local confections like the dry cookies called "bones of the dead." ❋ Richard Nalley (2010)
Quite beyond ordinary scruples by this time, I shamelessly rifled the olivewood desk, keeping an ear out for returning footsteps. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The olivewood base made it one of the sexiest mens scents to come down the pike in a long while. ❋ Rhonda Pollero (2009)
It takes pride of place on our mantlepiece in the living room next to our olivewood statue of Our Blessed Lady exquisitely carved by Catholic craftsmen from Bethlehem, still struggling to eke out a living in the Holy Land. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Endemic trees include: Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana), Bermuda palmetto (Sabal bermudana), and Bermuda olivewood (Elaeodendron laneanum). ❋ Unknown (2007)
The woodlands were characterized by three endemic trees, each of which is listed as threatened by the IUCN: Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana), Bermuda palmetto (Sabal bermudana), and Bermuda olivewood (Elaeodendron laneanum). ❋ Unknown (2007)
Rare endemic plants include Bermuda olivewood (Elaeodendron laneanum), wild Bermuda bean (Phaseolus lignosus), and Bermuda sedge (Carex bermudiana), which is confined to Paget Marsh and 5 upland sites. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The shaft was sometimes ash, sometimes olivewood, and the spearhead was bronze. ❋ Barry Strauss (2006)
Brandishing his crozier of olivewood he threw back his head: 'I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
He set out on foot, laden with nothing but a scrip and an olivewood cross that would serve him as a staff. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
Unless, of course, scanty olivewood-crèche-set sales are spoiling your enjoyment of earth and you've decided to attain to heaven. ❋ P. J. O'Rourke (2001)
The entire hope of peace on earth rests with badly carved olivewood crèche sets. ❋ P. J. O'Rourke (2001)
To pass the time, everybody was soon discussing how the tall young Greek with the elegant bearing had become enamored of the dark beauty who was never seen anywhere without her carved olivewood box. ❋ Eugenides, Jeffery (2002)
Carved from olivewood, a little bigger than a shoe box, it had a tin lid perforated by tiny airholes and inset with the icon of an unrecognizable saint. ❋ Eugenides, Jeffery (2002)
As the toys and fairy-tale books had disappeared from her room, other things had appeared — an olivewood stationery case lined in velvet, a delicate box of rose-leaf face powder, a handsome leather diary inscribed with her initials. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- (1993)
