Alex asked, her eyes on the strings of raphia and an unfinished basket that lay on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
Oils from the larvae of raphia palm beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) recorded the highest level of non-saturation of 65. 61percent while the winged termite had the least level non-saturation of 50.02 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Nigerian Scientists Discover Pharmaceutical Potential Of Insects] Reference
Raffia, a native of the South Sea Islands and of Madagascar, is the inner bark of the raphia palm, pulled off, torn into narrow strips, dried in the sun, and bound into bunches, which are plaited together and stored ready for use or shipping. From Wordnik.com. [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference
Miss Carpenter, as she separated long strands of raphia and initiated her pupils into the art of twisting and stitching, was almost as merry as Miss Pennington, whose infectious laugh, as she related James Mandeville's latest speeches, kept them all in a gale. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
Two or three bits of wool or raphia placed in position represent a whole night's work. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
It is an interlacing of raphia and bits of wool, picked up at random, without distinction of shade. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
With this road-metal are mingled short strips of raphia, or palm-fibre, flexible ribbons, easily bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
The fbi to presidentship isps and chamfer prionace to ephedraceae a raphia for worth walker in your acariosis eats. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The endogen in general use is the elai's, which is considered to supply a better and more delicate liquor than the raphia. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Pools of Silence] Reference
The candelabra, sumaumera, the manicaria, and raphia, with their enormous leaves, and other palms innumerable, tower towards the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
More curious is the raphia, with plume-like leaves, sometimes from forty to fifty feet in length, starting also from a short stem -- almost from the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
The work of this course will consist of freehand paper cutting, paper folding, cardboard construction leading toward book-making, weaving, work in raphia, and clay modeling. From Wordnik.com. [University of Virginia Record] Reference
The work of this course will consist of freehand paper cutting, paper folding, cardboard construction leading toward book-making, weaving, work in raphia, and clay modelling. From Wordnik.com. [University of Virginia Record] Reference
Now, as they resumed their way, the trees altered and drew farther apart, the ground was solid under foot, and through the foliage of the euphorbia and raphia palm came stray glimmers of sunshine, bits of blue sky, birds, voices, and the whisper of a breeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Pools of Silence] Reference
The endogen in general use is the elai’s, which is considered to supply a better and more delicate liquor than the raphia. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
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