iron-tree

Her nose should be like the bill of the hawk; her lips should be bright and red, like coral or the young leaf of the iron-tree.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

Some Brazilian woods, such as the iron-tree (pao-ferro), whose name fitly indicates its character, are of extraordinary hardness.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

At the same time, however, I can hardly doubt that Helen was keeping the law of a progress slow as the growth of an iron-tree.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1 George MacDonald 1864

At the same time, however, I can hardly doubt that Helen was keeping the law of a progress slow as the growth of an iron-tree.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

The pippul had been before assumed by the first recorded Buddha; others had the iron-tree, the champac, the nipa, &c.

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

- The next day, in searching the woods, I found a tree of that wood, or like it, which in the Brazils they call the iron-tree, for its exceeding hardness.

Robinson Crusoe 1719

■ The iron-tree, ebony, and dying - wood, prow in every part of the ifland; and gold duft is found in fome quantity ia its more interior regions; but the monks, in their concern for the morals of the people, h. ave been careful to get this dangerous branch of traffic into their own hands.

The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense 1791