Words can ' t do justice to the intricacy and accuracy of the plum-tree branches that fill the left-hand screen, or the equally detailed needles of the pine on the right, with a bit of a river and a few bamboo leaves underneath them and faint clouds of gold dust sprinkled around. ❋ David Littlejohn (2010)
Madame de la Sablière called La Fontaine a fabulist, who bore fables as naturally as a plum-tree bears plums. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"The satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams." ❋ Terri_osborne (2006)
A low table was placed in front, on which there was a two-spouted kettle full of sake, some sake bottles, and some cups, and on another there were some small figures representing a fir-tree, a plum-tree in blossom, and a stork standing on a tortoise, the last representing length of days, and the former the beauty of women and the strength of men. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
She cursed the director, who was upon the spot, with many abusive allusions to his wooden leg; and as for Pipes the operator, she employed her talons so effectually upon his face, that the blood ran over his nose in sundry streams; and next morning, when those rivulets were dry, his countenance resembled the rough bark of a plum-tree, plastered with gum. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A plum-tree, loaded with its violet fruit, spread its light shadow over the young girl's head, as she sat shelling fresh-gathered peas and piling the faint green heaps of color around her. ❋ Various (N/A)
Their eyes purged thick amber and plum-tree gum, and they had no notion of doing anything but drawing their pensions, and getting three meals a day, with a horrible fourth on the glorious Fourth. ❋ Various (N/A)
Before she left home, however, she filled a basket with plums from her plum-tree and, covering it over with a white cloth, hung it on her arm, for she said to herself: "There may be those in the world who have apples, and need plums." ❋ Maud Lindsay (N/A)
Indeed, Shakspere did not think it fair that 'the satirical rogue' should fill the paper with such remarks (whole Essays of Montaigne consist of similar useless prattle) as 'that old men have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.' ❋ Jacob Feis (N/A)
And sure enough she had not gone a half dozen yards when, right before her, she saw an apple-tree as full of apples as her plum-tree was full of plums. ❋ Maud Lindsay (N/A)
The larvæ of _Samia gloveri_ were reared, during the first four stages on a wild plum-tree, then on _Salix, caprea_, and I reproduce the notes taken on this species, which I bred this year (1881) for the first time. ❋ Various (N/A)
The plum-tree buds had opened, one by one, in the chill, early winds of spring, giving at times unwilling hospitality to flakes of snow whiter than themselves. ❋ Mary McNeil Fenollosa (N/A)
So all but grandmamma started off for the garden; and sure enough there was hanging from one of the lower branches of the plum-tree a huge bunch of bees; it was wonderful how they managed to keep together. ❋ Caroline Hadley (N/A)
She saw an apple-tree as full of apples as her plum-tree was full of plums ❋ Maud Lindsay (N/A)
It shall be in that old plum-tree in the orchard, on the side of the hill. ❋ Laura F. Kready (N/A)
Number Two did pretty well for a month, but his integrity and his appetite conflicted, and Miss Lucinda found him one moonlight night perched in her plum-tree devouring the half-ripe fruit. ❋ Various (N/A)
"A cow _couldn't_ go up a plum-tree," indignantly. ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (N/A)
One such night, during the time of plum-tree falling, when the boy, tortured by the almost human sweetness of the flowers, had risen from his bed to flee memory across the wide, cold plains of night, he had left, in his hurried going, the doors and shutters of his room spread wide. ❋ Mary McNeil Fenollosa (N/A)
"On to a plum-tree, ma'am, quite close to the hives," said the gardener. ❋ Caroline Hadley (N/A)
In the plum-tree branch that touched Umè-ko's abandoned chamber, the cricket chirped softly to himself. ❋ Mary McNeil Fenollosa (N/A)
