How To Use Palmy In A Sentence
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For commoners, it was umbrella hats made from palmyra or the dried leaf of arecanut palm conically folded like a conjurer's hat.
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The palmy days of self-sustained, endless growth seemed to have gone for ever.
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Chandra was gunned down as she entered her car in the car park of Langmore Health Clinic Foundation in Palmyra, San Fernando.
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At Peradeniya the palm family has nearly a hundred representatives, including the areca, palmyra, talipot, royal, fan, traveler's, date and cocoanut.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
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a philanthropist, whom a true and noble woman, also a philanthropist, should have delighted to honor; whose disinterested and resolute efforts, for the redemption of poor humanity, all independent and faithful minds should sustain, since the "broadcloth" vulgar will be sure to assail them; a philosopher, worthy of the palmy times of ancient Greece;
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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Community business was often conducted on the all-sand eighteen-hole golf course, with the Giza Pyramids and the palmy Nile as a backdrop.
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As this century closes and we enter the first computational millennium, one of the great conflicts in civilization will be the attempt to reorder society, culture and government in a manner that exploits this digital bonanza yet prevents it from running roughshod over the checks and balances so delicately constructed in those palmy precomputer years.
Technomania
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The modern city of Palmyra is virtually deserted.
Times, Sunday Times
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And there, also, were parks, pleasure-grounds, and public squares, all so admirably defined by the agency of the winds and rains of ages, that the traveller might readily imagine himself to have arrived within the precincts of the deserted city of some peopleless country, whose splendor and magnificence once more than vied with the far-famed Palmyra of the desert, even in its best days.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
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The president failed to implement tax cuts during the palmy days: now his prodigality will force him to impose tax increases.
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The bay is beautiful - long and curving - and has thousands of Palmyra palm trees.
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That impresario in his palmy days was once faced with a press complaining vociferously that too many of the new American plays he was energetically producing were clinkers.
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We passed southwards over large tracts of bush and gramineous plants, with patches of small plantations, manioc and thur; and settlements girt by calabash-trees, cocoas, palmyra and oil palms.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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I was much struck too with the dirtiness of the people of Palmyra, which dirtiness results in pestilence, ophthalmia, and plagues of flies.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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barracoon;" in the palmy days of the trade slave-pens occupied the ground now covered by the chapel, the schoolroom, and the dwelling-house, and extended over the site of the factory to the river-bank.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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Even if he made good on his offer to bankroll me, what life could I have if I took my new nose to some new, palmy town?
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles - over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs - using high-frequency radio.
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From August 12, 1898, until April 30, 1900, Hawaii (including Palmyra Atoll) was an unincorporated U.S. territory.
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The program ended with the return of the artist's final masterpiece, created just eighteen months before his premature death in 1973, and redolent of his troupe's young and palmy days.
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Its annexation caused the prosperity of the above-mentioned Palmyra, whose aristocracy and dynasty were likewise descended from the Aribi.
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So let us assume somebody's brother-in-law showed up one day in the palmy pre-sound days of Hollywood, and his brother-in-law, a power on the lot or on the set, said: ‘People, this is Bob, and he is a producer.’
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The modern city of Palmyra is virtually deserted.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the fan-shaped leaves to the root, the palmyra palm forms an intrinsic part of the life and cuisine of this region.
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As a display of military enthusiasm, the _Champ de Mai_, of June 1st, recalled the palmy days gone by.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
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But, for the rest of it -- Reed, I knew you in what you are pleased to call your palmy days.
The Brentons
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Add to this, the louvres, languid fans and wired-for-everything suites; then the palmy gardens, pools and occasional princes - plus a personal butler for each guest.
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a palmy time for stockbrokers
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The recently restored structure, now called Alumni Hall, commands the north side of Court Street, a splendid symbol of the village's palmy years.
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Your great indoors (plenty of marble, golden teak and a ripping sound system) open out to even greater domains of palmy glades and views of floating islands.
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The palmyra palm being the most useful of the species is widely grown in tropical coastal zones.
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Thickets of flamboya, casuarina and sweet coconut give way to the arid Palmyra palm.
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The carving abounded in motifs from nature including swallows, hydrangeas, azaleas, geraniums, lilies, palmyras, and balloon vines.
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In 1987 Henry Cooper literally sailed into retirement on a spiffy, 50-foot ketch that he called the Palmyra.
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According to a dietician at the Hospital, fruits like watermelon, tender coconuts, palmyra, lime and cucumber are diuretic and hence play a vital role in eliminating body heat.
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There was more than one (perhaps as many as three) little pianos over the years at Russell Square - in his palmy days, old Sedley was certainly rich and doting enough to shower his daughter with expensive luxuries.
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Mass arrests, burlesquing, tortures, imprisonments and executions of Gentile Hellenes in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople.
The Church-State Alliance and the future of humanity
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Readers of the narrative came from all over the world and from all walks of life to meet the man and stay at his palmy resort.
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-- John C. Mills, Palmyra, N.Y. -- This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in combining two important agricultural machines in one (or combining a tedder with a hay rake), and it consists in the construction of the tedder and the arrangement of the same in combination with the rake.
Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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The site of the settlement is on the right or northern bank behind the projection, a slip of morass backed by swamps and thick growths, chiefly bombax, palm and acacia, lignum vitae, the mammee-apple and the cork-tree, palmyra, pandanus, and groves of papyrus.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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And, with the help of the booty won from Palmyra, he attempted to establish the worship of Sol Invictus - with himself as this deity's chosen vicegerent - at the centre of Roman state religion.
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In the palmy days of work, before the firm smashed, they had aspired to what might properly be called diggings; and, moreover, had "digged" in respectable surroundings.
The Sorcery Club
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Although League One's Carlisle are accustomed to regular travels to what must seem like the ends of the earth, the club's daunting 700-mile-plus FA Cup third-round trip on Saturday to Torquay's palmy riviera at least rewards them with a scenic route to a fresh destination.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
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It had evidently been the ballroom or reception-room of the defunct Marchesa in palmy days.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Both have palmy trees and sunny places in the south; both have balmy people and shady characters in the north.
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In Palmyra, Syria, I once refused to buy a $4 T-shirt from a child hawker, prompting his outraged query: "Why are Americans so cheap?
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Golf courses, desert safaris and medical tourism (Palmyra is rich in sulphurous water) and marinas are all in the offing.
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The Riptonian handed him off in a manner that recalled the palmy days of the old Prize Ring -- handing off was always slightly vigorous in the Ripton _v.
The Gold Bat
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The remainder of the crew of 125 were quartered in the main surgery, a larger room, where there had been four operating tables and a cast room in our "palmy" days.
Sasaki
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Returning from the conquest of the East, Aurelian had already crossed the Straits which divided Europe from Asia, when he was provoked by the intelligence that the Palmyrenians had massacred the governor and garrison which he had left among them, and again erected the standard of revolt.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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These were the planters of the neighbouring country, many of whom came nightly to visit the theatre, and this from very considerable distances; forming such an audience as cannot be seen elsewhere in this hackney-coach age; indeed, to look on so many fine horses, with their antique caparisons, piquetted about the theatre, recalled the palmy days of the Globe and Bear-garden.
Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles - over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs - using high-frequency radio.
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Then there swung a school of what we call the palmy days of old comedy, and in the '40's it dwindled to nothing, and England and America waited until the early
Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911
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To Joseph Smith, on a farm in Palmyra, New York; news of the Book of Mormon, revealed to him by an angel.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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After a crushing defeat, the remaining Palmyrenes briefly fled into Antioch and into Emesa.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra
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It is no exaggeration to say that some of the actions of the packets and their dauntless crews recall the palmy days of Elizabethan naval prowess and exploits such as that of the immortal _Revenge_.
The Cornwall Coast
