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  • At the end of the Promenade des Anglais, on the pleasant road bordered with tamarind-trees, stands, amid a grove of cork-oaks and eucalypti, a charming white villa with pink shutters.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • At the end of the Promenade des Anglais, on the pleasant road bordered with tamarind-trees, stands, amid a grove of cork-oaks and eucalypti,

    Serge Panine — Complete Georges Ohnet 1883

  • There are several holm-oaks, oaks and cork-oaks, as well as olive groves and prickly pears.

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  • There are several holm-oaks, oaks and cork-oaks, as well as olive groves and prickly pears.

    WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill 2010

  • There are several holm-oaks, oaks and cork-oaks, as well as olive groves and prickly pears.

    WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill 2010

  • There are several holm-oaks, oaks and cork-oaks, as well as olive groves and prickly pears.

    WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill 2010

  • The general effect of the forest in cold climates is to assimilate the winter state of the ground to that of wooded regions under softer skies; and it is a circumstance well worth noting, that in Southern Europe, where Nature has denied to the earth a warm winter-garment of flocculent snow, she has, by one of those compensations in which her empire is so rich, clothed the hillsides with umbrella and other pines, ilexes, cork-oaks, bays and other trees of persistent foliage, whose evergreen leaves afford to the soil a protection analogous to that which it derives from snow in more northern climates.

    Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

  • The general effect of the forest in cold climates is to assimilate the winter state of the ground to that of wooded regions under softer skies; and it is a circumstance well worth noting, that in Southern Europe, where Nature has denied to the earth a warm winter-garment of flocculent snow, she has, by one of those compensations in which her empire is so rich, clothed the hillsides with umbrella and other pines, ilexes, cork-oaks, bays and other trees of persistent foliage, whose evergreen leaves afford to the soil a protection analogous to that which it derives from snow in more northern climates.

    The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

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