ebonies

Distinctive ebonies (Diospyros spp.) were common in dense clumps in the lowland forests.

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

Perched in the fences, swinging on the gate, and hanging from the trees, were a score of young ebonies of both sexes, who, as we came in sight, set up a chorus of discordant shouts that made the woods ring.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Soon the husband returned with the little girl and boy and four young ebonies, all bare-headed and all dressed alike, in thick trowsers and a loose linsey shirt.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Soon the husband returned with the little girl and boy, and four young ebonies, all bare-headed, and dressed alike, in thick trousers, and a loose linsey shirt.

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

Instead of the laurel-leaved trees of various kinds, we have African ebonies, acacias, and mimosae: the grass is shorter and more sparse, and we can move along without wood-cutting.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

The boys drew on the socks and boots, and the ebonies came in for a share of the spoil, whilst the Dominie

My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant, 1866

But about noon, the ebonies reported the rapid approach of two Federal officers.

My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant, 1866

Very well; the ebonies will help you in taking out, as the Dutch say to their guests at meal time.

My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant, 1866

Instead of the laurel-leaved trees of various kinds, we have African ebonies, acacias, and mimosae: the grass is shorter and more sparse, and we can move along without wood-cutting.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

But it is vauntingly said by some, that when they punish the female slave the whip is not used, and that rods only, or ebonies, are substituted for it.

Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's. With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists 1822