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Cypress tree

noun

Any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones. Synonym: cypress.

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"Cypress tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... me despair, and I'll despair, Under that cypress tree: Or bid me die, and I will dare E'en death, to ...

— The Hundred Best English Poems • Various

... am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree; Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, ...

— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed

... wild granite scarp of Mount Sinai, about seven thousand feet above the blue seas that lave its base, is a small plain hemmed in by pinnacles of rock. In the centre of the plain are a cypress tree and a fountain. This is the traditional scene of the greatest event in the history of mankind. It was here that Moses received the divine laws on which the civilisation of the world ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... upon crotches cut on purpose for the support thereof from the earth then they anoint it all over with the aforementioned ingredients of the powder of this root and bear's oil. When it is so done they cover it over very exactly with the bark of the pine or cypress tree to prevent any rain to fall upon it, sweeping the ground very clean all about it. Some of his nearest of kin brings all the temporal estate he was possessed of at his death, as guns, bows and arrows, beads, feathers, match coat etc. This relation is the chief mourner, being clad in moss, with ...

— An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians • H. C. Yarrow

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