2724 examples of olive in sentences

Use olive oil or lard.

Shake up olive oil with a solution of albumen in a test tube.

Feeble infants often grow more vigorous by having their skin rubbed vigorously daily with olive oil.

A young man and a young girl dressed in olive-green raiment, cut like old Greek raiment, were standing at my bedside.

Against the opposite wall was a cheap wooden wash-stand and an enormous closet built of olive wood sunk into a deep recess.

The Frenchman returned with a smiling, olive-complexioned Syrian in tow a round-faced fellow with blue jaws as dark as his serge uniform.

His skin would have been pallid had it not been olive.

This, by such a mode of decision, will be found a dark olive; a beautiful colour, and a just medium between white and black.

Those situated in the most southern regions of Europe, have in their corpus mucosum a tinge of the dark hue of their African neighbours: hence the epidemick complexion, prevalent among them, is nearly of the colour of the pickled Spanish olive; while in this country, and those situated nearer the north pole, it appears to be nearly, if not absolutely, white.

[Footnote 079: The following are the grand colours discernible in mankind, between which there are many shades; White } { Copper }Olive{ Brown } { Black ]

A fine olive complexion; magnificent dark auburn hair; eyes full of fire and softness; lips that could pout or smile with incomparable fascination; a figure of surprising symmetry, just voluptuous enough.

We enjoyed Florence, its palaces and galleries of art, the quaint old churches, about which the religious sentiment of ages seems to hang like an atmosphere, the morning and evening clamor of musical bells, the Arno, and the olive-crowned Tuscan hills,all so delightful to the senses and the soul.

The birds that inhabit the trees, on the other hand, need less of this protection, though the females are commonly of an olive or greenish yellow, which harmonizes with the general hue of the foliage, and screens them from observation, while sitting upon the nest.

The cliffs, some thirty feet high where we stood, rose to some hundred at the mouth, in intense black and copper and olive shadows, with one bright green tree in front of a cave's mouth, on which, it seemed, the sun had never shone; while a thousand feet overhead were glimpses of the wooded mountain-tops, with tender slanting lights, for the sun was growing low, through blue-gray mist on copse and lawn high above.

The height of the horizon line told us how high we were ourselves, for the blue of the Caribbean Sea rose far above a point which stretched out on our right, covered with noble wood, while the dark olive cliffs along its base were gnawed by snowy surf.

Both Theaios, and whosoever struggleth in the perfect consummation of all games, know this, even the supremacy of the ordinance of Herakles that is holden at Pisa: yet sweet preluding strains are those that twice have welcomed his triumph at the festival of the Athenians: and in earthenware baked in the fire, within the closure of figured urns, there came among the goodly folk of Hera the prize of the olive fruit[10].

[Footnote 10: The Athenian prize seems to have been an olive-bough in a vase of burnt clay.

At times they descended the slope for the pleasure of ascending the giant steps, and climbing the low walls of uncemented stones which supported the plantations, to see if the stunted olive trees and the puny almonds were budding.

Mary wore her substantial tailor-gown of olive tweed, and a little toque to match, with a silver mounted grouse-claw for her only ornament.

Hermes, to the Greek, was the inventor of the alphabet, music, the cultivation of the olive, weights and measures, and such humane arts.

To-day the scattered ruins of the acropolis are covered in spring-time with a luxuriant growth of grain and olive trees, making it one of the most picturesque mounds in Palestine.

R78750, 17May51, Alice H. Bleyer (W) <pb id='009.png' /> BLISS, A. R. Physics and chemistry for nurses, by A. R. Bliss and A. H. Olive.

R73794, 1Feb51, A. H. Olive (A) BODENHEIM, MAXWELL. Crazy man.

R72777, 8Jan51, The Bobbs-Merrill Co. (PWH) OLIVE, A. H., joint author. Physics and chemistry for nurses.

R87615, 21Dec51, Olive D. Gray (W) & Claude W. Sandifur (A)

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