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Definition of Cypresses
1. cypress [n] - See also: cypress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypresses
Literary usage of Cypresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"White and Black Cypresses.—Value of the Cypress.—Its Seed.— Manner of Sowing and
Cultivating. THIS ornamental tree properly belongs to the Southern States, ..."
2. House & Garden (1905)
"Let us then compare the different effect of the three lines of cypresses, AA',
... In the first diagram it will be noticed that the cypresses as a mass ..."
3. The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks: With a Steam by Pardoe (Julia) (1854)
"... of the Turkish Cemeteries —Cypresses—Singular Superstition—The Grand ...
and fringes with its dark cypresses the crest of the bill that dominates the ..."
4. An Italian Garden: A Book of Songs by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1897)
"UNDER the cypresses, here in the stony Woods of the mountain, the Spring too is
sunny: Rare Spring and early, Bird's singing sparely, Vale sea-green ..."
5. A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Comprising Recollections, Sketches, and by Alphonse de Lamartine (1838)
"... the cypresses, ringing in order to announce the pious ceremonies of the morrow,
which was Sunday. All pictured, in a word, the aspect, the sounds, ..."
6. The North American Sylva, Or, A Description of the Forest Trees, of the by François André Michaux, Augustus Lucas Hillhouse (1819)
"... Cypresses. THE researches of botanists have made us acquainted with only seven
species of Cypress , of which two belong to the New Continent and are ..."
7. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Or thy dark spires of fretted cypresses Bordering the channel of the milky-way.
Fiesole and Valdarno must be dreams Hereafter, and my own lost Affrico ..."
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