Teak Tree

Suddenly the German caught sight of a huge teak-tree that, having been uprooted, was trailing over the banks. ❋ Ernest [Illustrator] Prater (1917)

The soil of India supports many kinds of useful trees -- sandalwood, which is employed in the construction of the finer kinds of furniture; ebony, with its dark wood; the teak-tree, which grows to a height of 130 feet, and forms immense forests in both the Indian peninsulas and in the Sunda ❋ Sven Anders Hedin (1908)

With a cheek like the spring, and in stature like the teak-tree. ❋ Kate Milner Rabb (1901)

A little further away he heard, in addition to these sounds, the softer cluck with which a parent hen calls to her chickens; and presently, peering out from behind the bole of an enormous teak-tree, he saw not only chanticleer but also his harem, consisting of half a dozen hens, two of which had broods of fluffy-looking chickens running at their heels. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

These are constructed from the solid bole of the teak-tree, excavated partly with fire, partly with the adze; and, while they are commonly from eighty to a hundred feet long, the breadth rarely exceeds eight or nine feet, though the apparent width is increased by the addition of a sort of light gallery. ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)

The Commissioner had built a church, the walls of teak slabs, and the pillars each a single teak-tree, and it was ready for consecration. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)