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It's what they call palmetto cabbage, and it's very good to eat too, I can tell you. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Big Brother A Story of Indian War] Reference
McCown said the bears den in thick palmetto, which is very flammable. From Wordnik.com. [news | GS | http://www.gainesville.com] Reference
The palmetto spoken of is, in truth, not a "palmetto," though a plant of kindred genus. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
"palmetto" land, marking the limits of the annual inundation, extended northward through the woods, and parallel to the line of fence. From Wordnik.com. [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference
I spy a seagull on an icy branch of a palmetto tree. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Front Epitaph] Reference
Their villages were clusters of huts thatched with palmetto. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
To the whole scene the dwarf palmetto gives a semi-tropic aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
At least they weren't huge Miami palmetto bugs, cockroaches that fly!. From Wordnik.com. [PUISSANCE du PISSANTS] Reference
Swamp, jungle, pine and palmetto were vocal with the melody of many birds. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Piece of one of the palmetto-logs of old Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
Several times he stumbled over unseen roots of the ever-present saw palmetto. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
Washington, and over this statue some of the students hoisted a palmetto flag. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
Then, he bound both shells tightly together with wisps of green palmetto leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
Didn't we see you tied up tuh the bank yonder, whar that palmetto bends down like?. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
Sometimes he stared sombrely at a ghostly palmetto, tall and dark against the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
It was thatched like the Seminole wigwams in palmetto and set in a cluster of giant trees. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
They found hiding places behind trees or on the ground sheltered by the saw palmetto and brush. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
Within, the hard earth floor was slightly raised and covered with mats of woven palmetto-leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
The palmetto has its leaves in the form of an open fan, scolloped at the end of each of its folds. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
I saw palmetto-trees for the first time on this drive near enough to know what they really looked like. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
We turned a corner, came upon an open square, and paused beside a huge palmetto that grew near the centre. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
It was a huge, barn-like structure, made of the entire trunks of trees, and thatched with palmetto leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
The Spanish dagger, looking like a miniature palmetto, was planted for hedges round the garden and fish-pond. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
The bags for goods, and the tents, are of goats 'and camels' hair; there are no palmetto trees in that country. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
These were six or seven log-houses, thatched with palmetto-leaves, built on high posts, with a porch in front, facing the water. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The villages of Morocco are no more than collections of conical huts built of mud and wattle and palmetto, or goat and camel skins. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
But if rains made a more substantial dwelling necessary the palmetto furnished material for posts, elevated floor, and thatched roof. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
The fortress was built of palmetto-wood, and therefore it was little damaged; the shot which struck it being buried in its soft materials. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
And for every heart that was pierced there broke a dozen more in the shade of the southern palmetto, or in the shadow of the northern pine. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
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