sweet-bay

Ned produced some joints of sugar-cane for dessert, and made a can of after-dinner sweet-bay tea, and then began to ask questions.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

They made their way to a flooded key of sweet-bay, myrtle and cocoa plums, and Johnny piled up brush on which he tried to sleep, while

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

They found a sweet-bay bush near by and chewed the fragrant leaves for the moisture that was in them.

The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902

The wind died away; the odor of cedar and sweet-bay hung heavy in the air.

In Search of the Unknown 1899

North and south dunes glimmered; and the hot fragrance of sweet-bay mingled with the mounting savour of the sea.

The Firing Line 1899

She said something to Grace Ferrall about the mist promising good point - shooting in the morning, took the order book from a servant, jotted down her request to be called an hour before sunrise, filled in the gun-room records with her score -- the species and number bagged, and the number of shells used -- and accepting the tea offered, drew out a tiny cigarette - case of sweet-bay wood heavily crusted with rose-gold.

The Fighting Chance 1899

I know of nothing more wild than that gray waste of boulders; it is a natural Salisbury Plain, of which icebergs and ocean-currents were the Druidic builders; in that multitude of couchant monsters there seems a sense of suspended life; you feel as if they must speak and answer to each other in the silent nights, but by day only the wandering sea-birds seek them, on their way across the Cape, and the sweet-bay and green fern embed them in a softer and deeper setting as the years go by.

Oldport Days 1873

I know of nothing more wild than that gray waste of boulders; it is a natural Salisbury Plain, of which icebergs and ocean-currents were the Druidic builders; in that multitude of couchant monsters there seems a sense of suspended life; you feel as if they must speak and answer to each other in the silent nights, but by day only the wandering sea-birds seek them, on their way across the Cape, and the sweet-bay and green fern embed them in a softer and deeper setting as the years go by.

Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

Besides this there are several species of magnolia, the most northerly species being the sweet-bay (_Magnolia glauca_) of the Atlantic States, and the cucumber-tree (_M.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

"I had been running for perhaps a minute when, far up on the dunes, I saw a yellow dog rush madly through a clump of sweet-bay, and at the same moment a bird soared past, rose, and hung hovering just above the thicket.

In Search of the Unknown 1899