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The Trees, the first novel of Conrad Richter's trilogy The Awakening Land, is set in the wilderness of central Ohio (c. 1795).The simple plot — composed of what are essentially episodes in the life of a pioneer family before the virgin hardwood forest was cut down — is told in a third-person narration rich with folklore and suggestive of early backwoods speech.
A new pleasure sprouts on the Kadamba trees, and every branch shakes in a gaiety unexplained. Every flower of Ketaki is blossomed as if the forest has laughed. And peacocks dance with a precipitate joy. (Canto 2) [9] Cooled by the touch of fresh drops of water, And perfumed by the flower laden fragrant Lasak trees Aye! scented sweet by the ...
Hanasaka Jiisan (花咲か爺さん), also called Hanasaka Jijii (花咲か爺), is a Japanese folk tale.. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford collected it in Tales of Old Japan (1871), as "The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Blossom". [1]
Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (English: My Sweet Orange Tree) is a novel by José Mauro de Vasconcelos. [1] The book was first published in 1968 and was used for literature classes for elementary schools in Brazil. [2] It has also been translated and published in the US, Europe and Asia. [3]
The Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation is a bi-annual prize, first awarded in 2007, [1] for translation of prose or poetry into English from any of the other South African official languages. It is administered by the English Academy of South Africa, and was named in honour of Sol Plaatje .
"The Trees" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, from its 1978 album Hemispheres. The song is also featured on many of Rush's compilation albums. On the live album Exit...Stage Left, the song features an extended acoustic guitar introduction titled "Broon's Bane." Rolling Stone readers voted the song number 8 on the list of the 10 best Rush songs.
The tree grows to 20 m tall, its bark pale grey and fissured. The leaves are cordate or broadly ovate, up to 15 cm long. The tiny yellowish, almost white flowers of 0.8–1 cm in diameter appear in clusters of 1–3. The stigmata are stellate, and the ovary is strip hairy. Long hairs and short hairs grow in longitudinal, alternating rows.
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