carobs

Gisco slipped his fingers under his chin, for the chin-piece of the helmet used in course of time to occasion two callosities there; these were called carobs, and “to have the carobs” was an expression used to denote a veteran.

Salammbo 2003

The Sicily that al-Idrisi recorded was an island of carefully watered orchards and gardens where generations of Muslim technical expertise and commercial know-how had bequeathed a rich agriculture of lemons, almonds, pistachio nuts, cane sugar, dates, figs, carobs, and more.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

The old woman presses Miryam's her head against teats that feel, through the rough fabric, like dry carobs dangling from a tree.

Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5) 2008

Miscellaneous materials, such as grass and lucerne meals, dried sugar-beet pulp, molasses and carobs, are also used.

Chapter 7 1995

_Isobutyric acid_ is found in the free state in carobs (_Ceratonia siliqua_) and in the root of _Arnica dulcis_, and as an ethyl ester in croton oil.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

About 40,000 quintals of these carobs are annually exported from Crete.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

To the warmest zone of olives, lemons and carobs succeeds that of the chestnuts, some of them of gigantic dimensions and yielding a sure though moderate return in fruit, others cut down periodically as coppice for vine-props and scaffoldings.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

He had climbed down the slippery stairs through that dank couloir or funnel in the rock overhung with drooping maidenhair and ivy and umbrageous carobs.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

On we drove, down the lovely vale of the Corace, through orange-groves and pine-woods, laurels and myrtles, carobs and olive trees, with the rain beating fiercely upon us, the wind swaying all the leafage like billows on a stormy sea.

By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

You look up from the bitter husks or carobs, and say, I must have more and better; and these more and better things are your cares.

Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876