Lexicographical Neighbors of Raphias
Literary usage of Raphias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"A CALAMUS I'ALM object, nor do its fronds rise to such a height as the raphias
of Eastern and Central Africa; still, it is a beautiful member of the palm ..."
2. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1907)
"It is not in keeping with industrial manual-training ideals, to benefit some
house dealing in reeds and raphias, at the expense of the child educationally, ..."
3. The Empire and the Century: A Series of Essays on Imperial Problems and by Charles Sydney Goldman, Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"... mysterious aisles of trees where giant bananas battle for a peep of sky;
mop-headed palms leap clear above the mass of green, and raphias with long, ..."
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