locust-tree

Pepper-trees very beautiful, and the locust-tree not amiss.

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

It was a small story-and-a-half frame building, on the western edge of the town, with a locust-tree in front, two lilacs inside the paling, and a wilderness of cabbage-stalks and currant-bushes in the rear.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

The buildings have now altogether crumbled away; but the spot is still identified by a few graves and a large locust-tree, -- then a slender sapling, now a burly patriarch, which has remained to our day to point out the spot where occurred the first conflict between civilization and savagery in the new empire beyond the Alleghanies.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Such an epithet might have been borne out by the wildness of her looks, the darkness of her eyes, the simple arrangement of her coal-black hair -- which instead of being confined by comb or fillet, was twisted round a thorn cut from the nearest locust-tree -- and by the smallness of her stature, though the lightness and European tinge of her complexion must have instantly disproved the idea.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

A locust-tree in front of the jail had been used for a whipping-post, and they were very desirous that it should be cut down.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

In one flight, in 1905, while circling round a honey locust-tree at a height of about

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

On each side were ranged seven attendants, by whom he was assisted to mount, whereupon the carriage drove off, and, going out of the garden gate, passed through a hole in the trunk of the locust-tree already spoken of.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

Calling out to his two friends, he made them follow him to the locust-tree, and pointed out the opening through which he had begun his journey in dream-land.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

(A.D. 791) -- after drinking heavily with a party of friends under a wide-spreading old locust-tree near his house, he had to be carried to bed and there left to recover, his friends saying that they would leave him while they went to bathe their feet.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

And I, who have loved the mango-tree, I cannot cling to the locust-tree.

The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika Arthur William Ryder 1907