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  • Vegetation is more abundant, and masses of arack-trees (salvadora), supposed to be the mustard-tree of the Bible, grow here, the wood of which is much esteemed for cleaning the teeth.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

  • Take, for example, the history of Moses, which is a vigorous branch shooting out from the mustard-tree under the ancient dispensation.

    The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

  • The Kingdom of God on earth became a great power visible to the eyes of men, no longer hid like the leaven, but overshadowing the earth like the mustard-tree; and the power and influence of Imperial

    A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt

  • The Hebrew writers speak of the mustard-tree as one on which they could climb, as on a fig-tree.

    Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

  • The native who obtains a few dozen seeks shelter under the first mustard-tree, and with dull-edged knife, dissects each bivalve with a thoroughness permitting nothing to escape his eye.

    East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

  • Hernandia [7], with its sonorous fruits; while the dry sands above are taken possession of by the Acacias, _Salvadora Persica_ (the true mustard-tree of Scripture [8], which, here attains a height of forty feet), Ixoras, and the numerous family of Cassias.

    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

  • Sir Thomas, who was always fond of giving admonition and reproof to the ignorant and erring, and who had found the seeds (little mustard-seeds, 't is true, and never likely to arise into the great mustard-tree of the Gospel) in the poor lad Willy, did let his heart soften a whit tenderer and kindlier than Master Silas did, and said unto Master Silas, -

    Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819

  • "But if I find you at our next interview sitting under the shade of the mustard-tree whose little seed I have just dropped, I shall feel that I have not laboured in vain.

    The Minister's Charge William Dean Howells 1878

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