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Updated: May 23, 2025
The fresh laurels of politics sprouted forth with tenfold vigour, and the withered fig-tree of theology was totally forgotten! 'There is likely to be a change in affairs then, my lord? said I, smiling in rapturous sympathy as I spoke 'There is. 'Mr. * has been with your lordship several times, I think? 'Yes, yes; I am courted by all parties, at present' 'Indeed, my lord!
Palm trees became numerous, and grew forty or fifty feet high, with a thick trunk swelling in the middle, and tapering upwards and downwards. Sarcocephalus, the clustered fig-tree, and the drooping tea-tree, were also present as usual. The bed of the river, an immense sheet of sand, was full a mile and a half broad, but the stream itself did not exceed thirty yards in width.
Since the Revolution their habitation has been open to all the winds of heaven, and the shadow of the wild fig-tree falls where that of their own forms once fell as they stood in the stalls of their chapel choir.
O these English homes, what delightful places they are! I wonder how many people live and die in the workhouse, having no other home, because other people have a great deal more home than enough. . . . We had a very pleasant dinner, and Mr. M and I walked back, four miles and a half, to Liverpool, where we arrived just before midnight. Why did Christ curse the fig-tree?
When they met, the burden of conversation, which flowed under vine or fig-tree, by the wayside or in humble homes, would be of their cherished hope.
There is a story of how a young wife, coming to offer her little offerings to the spirit of the great fig-tree, saw him, and took him for the spirit, so beautiful was his face as he rose. There are spirits in all the great trees, in all the rivers, in all the hills very beautiful, very peaceful, loving calm and rest.
He passed his time between the mill and the low wall opposite the Venta of the Break of Day, of which the stones beneath the fig-tree were polished with his constant use of them.
She affected the calmness she did not feel, for her heart was trembling for the tender little heart beating with so much love and anxiety beside her. But Isabel's divination, however arrived at, was not at fault. In a few moments Don Luis lightly leaped the hedge, and without a moment's hesitation sought the shadow of the fig-tree. As he approached, Antonia looked at him with a new interest.
First, he showed what was the occasion of the words, namely, because the fig-tree was barren. Then he showed what was contained in the sentence, to wit, repentance or utter desolation. He then showed also by whose authority this sentence was pronounced. And, lastly, he showed the reasons of the point, and then concluded his sermon.
On every ship that passes her den she levies a tribute of six of her crew. "On the other side of the strait thou wilt see a second rock, lying flat and low, about a bowshot from the first. There stands a great fig-tree, thick with leaves, and under it sits Charybdis, sucking down the water, and belching it up again three times a day.
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