Citations:ethel

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English citations of ethel

a kind of tamarisk(?)[edit]

  • 1872, Thomas Milner, The gallery of geography: a pictorial and descriptive tour, Northern Africa: Tripoli, volume 2, page 949:
    Hence they turned inland over the prairies of the Belasa, visiting Murzuk and Ghat, through valleys rich in herbage and clothed with ethel-trees; gradually ascending until a table-land was reached, []
  • 1857, Henry Barth, Travels and Discoveries [] in the year 1849—1855, volume 1, page 231:
    Monday, August 12th. Our route followed the windings of the valley, which, father on, exhibited more ethel than talha-trees, []
  • 1908, Charles Montagu Doughty, Wanderings in Arabia, volume 2, page 141:
    and there beside a bluish dark wood of ethel trees, upon high dunes!