| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 338 pages
...greater perfection than in other countries. This tree, which in most parts of Asia is called the chinur, grows to the size of an oak, and has a taper, straight trunk, with a silvercolored bark; and its leaf, not unlike an expanded hand, is of a pale green. When in full foliage,... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 352 pages
...greater perfection than in other countries. This tree, which in most parts of Asia is called the chinur, grows to the size of an oak, and has a taper, straight trunk, with a silvercolored bark ; and its leaf, not unlike an expanded hand, is of a pale green. When in full foliage,... | |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson - 1871 - 342 pages
...perfection than in any other country, This tree, which in most parts of Asia is called the Chinur, grows to the size of an oak, and has a taper, straight trunk, with a silver-colored bark, and its leaf, not unlike an expanded hand, is of a pale green. When in full foliage... | |
| Robert Southey - 1880 - 618 pages
...greater perfection than in other countries. This tree, which in most parts of Asia is called the chinur, grows to the size of an oak, and has a taper, straight trunk, with a silvercolored bark; and its leaf, not unlike an expanded hand, is of a pale green. When in full foliage,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1884 - 586 pages
...greater perfection than in other countries. This tree, which in most parts of Asia is called the tltinur, grows to the size of an oak, and has a taper, straight trunk, with a silvercolored bark; and its leaf, not unlike an expanded hand, is of a pale green. When in full foliage,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1799 - 612 pages
...called the Chinaur, grows to the fize of an oak, and has a taper ftrcight trunk, with a iilver coloured bark ; and its leaf, not unlike an expanded hand, is of a pale green. When iu full foliage, it has a grand and beautiful appearance, and in the hot weather, it affords a refreihing... | |
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