The ombu is a handsome tree to the eye, not unlike an English walnut in its habit of growth, and it has the one merit of being a splendid shade-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference

The whole place was surrounded by a ring of fine chaco paraiso trees and "ombu.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Argentina from a British Point of View] Reference

We had a long day's ride over the same rich green plain, abounding with various flocks, and with here and there a solitary estancia, and its one ombu tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Here is some poor fellow lashed to the ombu-tree! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

The ombu now began to drift rapidly along, impelled by wind and current.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

Two, three ombu-trees grow near; but I have seen de great tiger sleep in one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

FOR two hours the ombu navigated the immense lake without reaching terra firma.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

In reality, however, it was the ombu, which grows solitarily on the Argentine plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

The only indigenous tree is the ombu, and the ombu makes itself conspicuous by its rarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference

They went out again, and looked around; they even searched the ombu-tree, but all in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

This, then, was the secret the ruin had held so long -- the mystery of the giant ombu-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

He was hidden among the thick leafage of the ombu, and they must call out if they wanted him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

'No, but a branch of that ghostly ombu-tree moved by a passing wind between us and the light.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

The whole party in the ombu felt agitated and oppressed, and not one of them could close his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

A few seconds more, and the gigantic water-spout threw itself on the ombu, and caught it up in its whirl.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

I feel sure I'll dream I'm up in that dark ombu-tree, and perhaps in the clutches of that fearsome tiger. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

Scarcely; and growling low as if in anger, Wolf had arisen and stood pointing towards the ombu-shaded window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

As can easily be imagined, after their compulsory rest on the ombu, the travelers were up betimes and ready to start.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

This ombu measured in height a hundred feet, and covered with its shadow a circumference of one hundred and twenty yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

Not a single tree was visible on the liquid plain; the ombu stood alone amid the rolling waters, and trembled before them.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

Then again all sounds -- if sounds there had been -- ceased, and nothing was audible save the sighing wind in the ombu-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

We cut branches from the ombu-tree, tied them together with the thongs that had bound the victim's limbs, and so made a litter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

His battered body was then taken down and buried in a deep hollow at some little distance from the last of the long row of ombu trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

About ten of them were there, lashing the water with their powerful tails, and attacking the ombu with the long teeth of their lower jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

When de big moon rise, and all is bright like de day, and no sound make itself heard but de woo-hoo-woo of de pampa owl, I get quietly up and go to de ombu-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

Here grow many ombu-trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

Oh, that strange waving ombu-tree!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

When I come near de ombu-trees I shout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference