box-tree

At ten miles struck a stony box-tree creek; its bed was sand and gravel, but no water.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

When a noise like the brushing skirt of a visitor was heard on the doorstep, it proved to be a scudding leaf; when a carriage seemed to be nearing the door, it was her father grinding his sickle on the stone in the garden for his favourite relaxation of trimming the box-tree borders to the plots.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The small dwarf box-tree still, however, continued to be the prevailing wood, and covered, as usual, the more wet and boggy portions of the low land.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

The fig-tree, canary, laurel, and box-tree grew in profusion.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Started at 7.45 a.m.; crossed sandhills and timbered flat and creek running north about 200 yards wide; passed end of very stunted box-tree flat running parallel to our course and camped on creek with little water.

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

The box-tree is, in all probability, the natural produce of the soil; but a generally received story is, that the box was planted there by Thomas, Earl of Arundel, between two and three centuries ago.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various

The country we saw today has undulating features with rich soil, dry grass, and box-tree.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Within three days 'journey of the gulf of Carpentaria, the box-tree flat was studded with turreted ant-hills, either single sharp cones, three to five feet high, or united in rows and forming piles of remarkable appearance.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

In another Breton tale the life of a giant resides in an old box-tree which grows in his castle garden; and to kill him it is necessary to sever the tap-root of the tree at a single blow of an axe without injuring any of the lesser roots.

Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales 1922

In another Breton tale the life of a giant resides in an old box-tree which grows in his castle garden; and to kill him it is necessary to sever the tap-root of the tree at a single blow of an axe without injuring any of the lesser roots.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922