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  • As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lignaloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

    Numbers 24. 1999

  • He found me standing by the fire, throwing on it more sandal-wood, lignaloes, and other precious things; and as he stood gazing in fear and astonishment, and hardly believing his eyes, I said to him:

    Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes P. W. [Translator] Jacob

  • Israel is seen to be abiding in his tents according to his tribes: "As valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of the lignaloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters."

    My Recollections of African M. E. Ministers, or Forty Years' Experience in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Alexander Walker 1881

  • "Hanút," i.e., leaves of the lotus-tree to be infused as a wash for the corpse; camphor used with cotton to close the mouth and other orifices; and, in the case of a wealthy man, rose-water, musk, ambergris, sandal-wood, and lignaloes for fumigation.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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