banyan-tree

He spoke of the product of the Indian forest, the palm-tree, the cocoa-nut tree, the banyan-tree.

The Newcomes 2006

We lunched in the open air upon a stone table under a banyan-tree at the “Five-storied Pagoda” which forms the north-east corner of the great wall of Canton, from which we looked down upon the singular vestiges of the nearly forgotten

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

We buried Baruti under the shade of the banyan-tree, a few yards west of my tembe.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

He took us to a magnificent banyan-tree, of which he seemed proud.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

A certain bishop of Congo makes the sign of the cross upon a “banyan-tree,” whereupon it immediately died, like the fig-tree cursed by our-Saviour.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Order was soon restored by the interpreter; both sexes and all ages crowded round me with hootings of wonder, and, when they had stared their fill, allowed me to sit down under a kind of ficus, not unlike the banyan-tree (Ficus Indica).

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Osman and his bullock stood at the edge of the banyan-tree, watching her bounce about on top of the potato sacks until she had diminished to a dot.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

But it would have puzzled anyone to explore this almost impenetrable forest growth without the aid of a cutlass to clear the path; for, tall vines, like ship's cordage, hung from the limbs of the trees and knitted their branches together in the most inextricable fashion, the lianas rooting themselves down into the earth and then springing up again for fresh entanglements, in the same way as the banyan-tree of India spreads itself.

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

Hinduism is only another banyan-tree whose branches have become trunks, and whose trunks have produced new branches, until the whole has become an intellectual and moral jungle of vast extent.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

A hundred varieties of creed have sprung up beneath this banyan-tree which I have called Hinduism.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood