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  • Indiscernible from the ancient mud structure, which resembles a melting sandcastle, the hotel has a calming, spare aesthetic, adorned with carved palm-wood doors and shutters, cylindrical salt lanterns, and striped Bedouin carpets in earth tones.

    In Egypt's Desert, an Oasis Blooms Anew 2009

  • Their porches are easily set aflame, for the doors are made of palm-wood and varnished with bitumen, the very food of fire.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • The plough used is a rude wooden instrument with a very short single handle, a tolerably well-shaped coulter, and the point formed of a piece of hard palm-wood fastened in with wedges.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Sometimes palm-wood beams jutting out from the walls obliged them to bend their heads.

    Salammbo 2003

  • The female palm alone produces fruit and is cultivated, but the presence or vicinity of the male is required, and in many oriental countries there is a law that those who own a palm-wood must have a certain number of male plants in proportion.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • He pulled out from the bottom a palm-wood box lined with red velvet, and from it took out a pair of smart and very expensive pistols.

    The Possessed 2003

  • The pyre stood on palm-wood columns; the space between was piled up with tinder and dry straw.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • It was told me that the pale stem of the cross was cypress, the brown arm cedar, and the other arm of yellow palm-wood, while the piece added at the top, with the title, was of smooth yellow olive-wood.

    The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

  • The _Aeta_ carries a bamboo lance, a palm-wood bow, and poisoned arrows when out on an expedition.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Vista, where the owner kept cut palm-wood to be used for the launch, besides bananas, pineapples and a small patch of cocoa-plants.

    In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange

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