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  • My slender lemon-tree seedling pulls herself from the soil I tucked with care about her heel.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • My slender lemon-tree seedling pulls herself from the soil I tucked with care about her heel.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • My slender lemon-tree seedling pulls herself from the soil I tucked with care about her heel.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Towards evening, when it grew cooler, the cicadas stopped singing; their place being taken by the green tree - frogs, glued damply to the lemon-tree leaves down by the well.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

  • At last the man came to the lemon-tree called kabayawa, that has long, sharp thorns on its branches.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • [46] Down there I shall begin to shake the lemon-tree.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • Its sign, suspended by a high, red post, exhibited a huge bowl and ladle, overhung by a lemon-tree.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 Various

  • And the man cried out to the lemon-tree, "Could you protect me, if I were to hide among your leaves and flowers?"

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • These were four tall and slender maidens, beautiful as the flower-clad trees and blossom-crowned hills of their own island, and sweet as the breath of a lemon-tree.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • He took me to a neighboring lemon-tree, and exhibited an English brass steelyard hanging on its branches, which had been left there by a mulatto merchant from Sierra Leone, who died in the town on a trading trip.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

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