For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. From LearnThat.org. [Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931).]
"I thought the cypress was a flower," said Malcolm. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
A lot of it cypress, red cypress, which is — doesn't rot very easy. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Larry and Betty Kelley, December 9, 1999. Interview K-0511. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The cypress, which is described below, is another cone-bearing tree which sheds its leaves in winter. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
The cypress is a thousand years in growth, yet its limbs touch not the clouds, save on a mountain top. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Range: The cypress is a southern tree, but is found under cultivation in parks and on lawns in northern United States. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
The Master said, “When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Analects] Reference
The cypress is a large, deciduous tree, inhabiting swampy lands, and along rivers and coasts of the Southern parts of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Or Cyprian is said of cypress, that is to say heaviness or heritage, for he had heaviness of his sins and heritage of the heavenly joys. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
Cedars are also called cypresses, though there is also a cypress which is not a cedar, IIRC. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
Call of play, i headset that the cypress was a specials in optics and the training is little removable to replacing the chew. From Wordnik.com. [about-electronics.eu] Reference
No. You’re thinking of ‘cypress which is unrelated. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country] Reference
The cypress trees no longer shiver in the wind for them. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Begins] Reference
A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision] Reference
No one had painted the cypress paneling or replaced the windows. From Wordnik.com. [With Silver Spring home, family wins Washington Post's Mad Men Look contest] Reference
The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision] Reference
The camp, high on stilts, soon disappears behind a stand of cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Ground] Reference
That night, we slept beneath the cypress trees, beside a cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [Mother's Angels] Reference
With the cypress gone, the sunlight falls into the yard in a new way. From Wordnik.com. [House] Reference
I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Ducking beneath the meager shade of a cypress tree, Jaffarey mops the sweat from his brow. From Wordnik.com. ['Her Name Was Aida'] Reference
A chill wind whistles over rocky hills covered with pale grass and speckled with cypress trees. From Wordnik.com. [At The Heart Of The Matter] Reference
Carved from cypress grown in the Bayou State, the coffins are lined with crisp white muslin sheets. From Wordnik.com. [Coffins Made With Brotherly Love Have Undertakers Throwing Dirt] Reference
Around it the pine-trees waved a greeting, and the wind sighed through the branches of the cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The line was built by the Japanese in order to transport cypress and other woods from the mountaintop. From Wordnik.com. [Taiwan’s Mountain Retreats] Reference
Outside, herons patrolled the tributary, and cypress trees dug their roots into its murky green water. From Wordnik.com. [Rod and Gun Club] Reference
Ms. MAGGY HURCHALLA: Its a truly wild, beautiful, cypress-lined - dark brown is the river, golden is the sand. From Wordnik.com. [Paying A Local Price For I-95's Global Promise] Reference
At her feet, the cypress-trees raised their black distaffs, and the olive-trees looked like sheep on the hills. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The entrance doors to this mighty Temple were of cypress wood, with ivory panels of richest sculpture set in gold. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
He breaks my brain into a hundred pieces and then plants cypress in my coffee and chrysanthemums in my orange juice. From Wordnik.com. [Avatar Of Chaos] Reference
An Israeli military bulldozer removes a cypress tree at the center of clashes between the Lebanese and Israeli armies. From Wordnik.com. [U.N. Says It Tried to Prevent Israel-Lebanon Clash] Reference
'I cannot tell thee; but I pray thee point the nearest way to the pine and cypress grove nigh to the Temple of Diana.'. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
He collected the roses and dropped them into a bucket, which he shoved into a stripe of shade drawn by a nearby cypress tree. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse] Reference
We have already seen that cypress was put at the door to express to the passer-by the bereavement of the dwellers in the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
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