Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

Coconut palms were introduced in the 1890s, and a few still survive.

Among the most popular species that used to be planted were date palms, sycamores, fig trees, nut trees, and willows.

Cypresses and palms were some of the most planted types of trees.

These were carefully cut to what is approximately a face slope with a seked of 5½ palms to give the required dimensions.

The corporal remains were described as being " unusually tall " measuring seven palms when examined by doctors.

The naval salute, with the palm downwards used because the palms of naval ratings, particularly deckhands, were often dirty through working with lines: it would be insulting to present a dirty palm to an officer, so the palm was turned downwards.

In ancient Egypt two blades of the papyrus plant along the Nile river were held together in between the palms.

In those two groups, the forelimbs of quadrupedal species were usually rotated so that the hands faced forward with palms backward (" pronated ") as the animals walked.

There was a fortress very near to the town whose walls were made of brick and was seven palms wide.

The Palm Sunday blessing of palms was freed from elements, such as the recitation of the Sanctus, that were relics of an earlier celebration of a separate Mass for the blessing, and the procession was simplified.

) According to David L. Durham Joshua trees were sometimes called yucca palms at the time, which was the reason for the name.

The area was first known as the Old MacDonald Ranch, but the name changed to Palm Village in the 1920s when date palms were planted.

The home of the French island governor, the white beach house with coconut palms and surrounding grass lawn, is the Allerton Estate home and former summer residence of Hawaiian Queen Emma near Poipu Beach, now a part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden ( without the scenes of boats and canoes on the Wailua River, which were edited and merged with scenes filmed at the Allerton Estate ).

Lattimore in 1926 observed camel-pullers " knitting on the march ; if they ran out of yarn, they would reach back to the first camel of the file they were leading, pluck a handful of hair from the neck, and roll it in their palms into the beginning of a length of yarn ; a weight was attached to this, and given a twist to start it spinning, and the man went on feeding wool into the thread until he had spun enough yarn to continue his knitting ".

Likewise, two small potted oil palms brought back by the VOC from Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, produced seeds after six years, and these were propagated throughout all of Southeast Asia, becoming a major source of revenue in the Dutch East Indies and now in Indonesia.

During the rebuilding of the realm at around midnight were reports of a transparent or translucent object glittering and bright spotted emerging from the seven sugar palms on the banks of the Mekong River ; it drifted in the air above the Mekong every night until near dawn when the crystal-like object would then float back into the seven trees from whence it came.

Oil palms were introduced to Java by the Dutch in 1848, and to Malaysia ( then the British colony of Malaya ) in 1910 by Scotsman William Sime and English banker Henry Darby.

All of the all trees, shrubs and plants — with the exception of the date palms — were propagated and grown at AUC ’ s Desert Development Center.

The few trees present today, including California fan palms, Washingtonia filifera, were introduced in modern times.

Their artillery and machine guns were well placed in the palms fringing the eastern side of a great flat marsh, which stretched right across the front of their position, giving them an excellent field of fire.

The palms were more numerous and widespread in the past than what they are at present.

Lack of oxygen slowed bacterial decomposition and kept scavengers away, so leaves of palms, ferns and sycamores, some showing the insect damage they had sustained during their growth, were covered with fine-grained sediment and preserved.

Palm Beach was later named after the Cabbage Tree palms livistona australis that were near Cabbage Tree Boat Harbour.

The earliest hashish was created by gently rubbing palms and fingers on cannabis buds for hours to accumulate resin, which would then be scraped off the hand.

In many Protestant churches, children are given palms, and then walk in procession around the inside of the church while the adults remain seated.

The great size and numerous teeth of Triceratops suggests that they ate large volumes of fibrous plant material, with some suggesting palms and cycads, and others suggesting ferns, which then grew in prairies.

Sago palms grow very quickly, in clumps of different ages similar to bananas, one sucker matures, then flowers and dies.

Sago is extracted from Metroxylon palms by splitting the stem lengthwise and removing the pith which is then crushed and kneaded to release the starch before being washed and strained to extract the starch from the fibrous residue.

A handful of ripe fruits are chewed until sticky, and the mass is then rubbed between the palms of the hands to form long extremely sticky strands which are then coiled around small thin tree branches where birds perch.

Scholars however agree that there are two authentic ways of raising one's hands: when not in drastic conditions the palms of one's hands should be turned up facing the skies, whilst the back of one's hands are facing the ground, then the du ' a can be " recited ".

If you draw your fingers through them they are lodged and struggle with a shock of wet heads ; the long stalks rub and click and flatten to a fan on one another like your fingers themselves would when you passed the palms hard across one another, making a brittle rub and jostle like the noise of a hurdle strained by leaning against ; then there is the faint honey smell and in the mouth the sweet gum when you bite them.

They cup their down-turned hands over the flame and then raise their palms to their forehead-the purificatory blessing, passed from the deva's image to the flame, has now been passed to the devotee.

At the beginning the hands sink a little bit down with the palms facing outwards and slightly down at shoulder width, then the hands move out to create a Y.

In Soto Zen, the kyōsaku is always administered at the request of the meditator, by way of bowing one's head and putting the palms together in gassho, and then exposing each shoulder to be struck in turn.

The wrestler then falls downwards while still scissoring his legs around the opponent's waist and pushes himself by hitting his palms against the canvas.

The whisk is rolled between the palms of the hands, then moved back and forth in the mixture until it is aerated and frothy.

She sprinkles rice and red turmeric powder on the groom, and then blesses him with the palms of both hands-stretching them close to the groom ’ s head.

The lifter then raises the barbell overhead by pressing the palms of his hands against the underside of the barbell.

He staggers over to the console, dematerialising the ship then pressing his palms to the telepathic circuits.

The first signs are always physical-he immediately shudders violently, garbles incoherently, then adopts a stance with bent knees and upraised arms, palms forward.

The pose consists of standing with feet together, then hinging forward from the hips, letting the head hang, with palms placed flat on the floor near the feet.