How To Use Palmyra 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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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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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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The modern city of Palmyra is virtually deserted.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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From August 12, 1898, until April 30, 1900, Hawaii (including Palmyra Atoll) was an unincorporated U.S. territory.
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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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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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The bay is beautiful - long and curving - and has thousands of Palmyra palm trees.
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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 modern city of Palmyra is virtually deserted.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The palmyra palm being the most useful of the species is widely grown in tropical coastal zones.
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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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Golf courses, desert safaris and medical tourism (Palmyra is rich in sulphurous water) and marinas are all in the offing.
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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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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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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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-- 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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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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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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In 1987 Henry Cooper literally sailed into retirement on a spiffy, 50-foot ketch that he called the Palmyra.
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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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Thickets of flamboya, casuarina and sweet coconut give way to the arid Palmyra palm.
