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Updated: June 5, 2025
What a contrast again, the huge feathery fronds of the Cocorite palms which stretch right away hither over our heads, twenty and thirty feet in length. And what is that spot of crimson flame hanging in the darkest spot of all from an under-bough of that low weeping tree?
In this case, however, several fronds stood out from the trunk, at less than twenty feet from the ground. These were loaded with large green cones, full five inches in length; and it appeared to be these that my companion desired to obtain though for what purpose I had not the remotest idea.
The scent of the flowers, the street lined in one place by arching giant fronds drowsing and nodding overhead there seemed a strange exotic romance to it. The sultry air might almost have been sensuous. "Much further, Hugo?" "No. We are here." He turned abruptly into a gateway, led me through a garden and to the doorway of a large, rambling, one-story building.
Suddenly she heard a stirring in the bracken a yard or two away from her. Something was moving slowly among the waving masses of huge fronds and caused them to sway to and fro.
The exposed vaults immediately behind the Arch of Severus, bounding the Forum in this direction, are richly draped with the long, delicate fronds of the maidenhair fern. Shaded from the sun, it grows here in the crevices of the old walls in greater luxuriance and profusion than elsewhere in the city.
"You see, it is not pleasant to be blown up eizer by the terrestrial eruptions of zee vorld or zee celestial explosions of your vife. A leetle more rice, Moses if you please. Zanks." "Now, mine fronds," he continued, after having disposed of a supper which it might have taxed a volcano's throat to swallow, "it is viz great sorrow zat I must part from you here." "Part!
Mist floated upward from marsh and lake; and through it the spectral palms loomed, drooping fronds embroidered with dew.
Some of the fronds are artificially variegated; and others, on reaching maturity, have a curious crumpled appearance. Again, the roots of certain small species are frequently twisted into curious devices, and hung up in grottoes, or shady corners. The effect of these, when the roots are partly concealed by the fresh young fronds, is very pretty.
Day after day we passed more and more of it, often in long processions, ranged in the direction of the wind; while, a few feet below the surface, here and there floated large fronds of a lettuce- like weed, seemingly an ulva, the bright green of which, as well as the rich orange hue of the sargasso, brought out by contrast the intense blue of the water.
It seemed to have no wings at all. But then, in one instant, a vast wing-surface flashed out, made a single gigantic flap and the thing was a projectile again, darting through a cheraux-de-frise of interlaced fronds without a sign of wings to support it. Tommy inspected his surroundings with an infinite care.
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