In Italy, an olive branch which has been blessed keeps the witch from the dwelling, and in some parts of the Continent the plum-tree is used.

" The common expression: "Worth a plum," Is generally said of a man who is accredited with large means, and another adage tells us that, "The higher the plum-tree, the riper the plum.

Who stole a nest away From the plum-tree, to-day?" "Not I," said the dog, "Bow-wow!

Who stole a nest away From the plum-tree?

Who stole a nest away From the plum-tree, to-day?" "Coo-coo!

It is not disagreeable to have the gum that oozes from a plum-tree upon your fingers, because it is vegetable; but if you have any candle-grease, any tallow upon your fingers, you are uneasy till you rub it off.

Plum-trees were brought from Damascus and sugar-cane from Tripoli.

Slanders Sir: for the Satyricall slaue [Sidenote: satericall rogue sayes] saies here, that old men haue gray Beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes purging thicke Amber, or Plum-Tree Gumme: and that they haue

Don't ask to find the pathway smooth, To march to fife and drum; The plum-tree will not come to you; Jack Horner, hunt the plum.

These hedges are festooned with masses of clinging luxuriant creepers, among which sometimes struggles up a custard apple, an avocado pear, or a wild plum-tree.

After supper he sat nodding at the open window, looking out over the plum-trees to the sky beyond, where the black clouds were putting out the stars one by one.

Number Two did pretty well for a month, but his integrity and his appetite conflicted, and Miss Lucinda found him one moonlight night perched in her plum-tree devouring the half-ripe fruit.

I hear that the fruit of a kind of plum-tree in Provence is "called Prunes sibarelles, because it is impossible to whistle after having eaten them, from their sourness."

Their acquaintanceship had originated in a shell-hole near Plum-Tree Farm in 1916.

Don't you wish sometimes you were back at Plum-Tree Farm? Reggie.

When the early breakfast was over they went out about the place, through the peach-orchard and the vineyard still dewy, lingering in the shade of a plum-tree, finding all matters to be of interest.

"Plum-tree, a tree that produces plums; Hog-plumbtree, a tree.

The little plum-trees in the Vicarage orchard might have been olive trees twinkling in the sun.

I often think of the plum-tree in the tiny garden of Wentworth Place, where Keats, one languid spring day, sate to hear the nightingale sing, and scribbled the Ode on loose half-sheets of paper, careless if they were preserved or no.

There is a little picture of Keats, done, I think, after his death by Severn, which represents him sitting in the tiny parlour of Wentworth Place, with the window open to the orchard, where, under the plum-tree, he wrote the Ode to the Nightingale.

The fragrance of a blossoming plum-tree stole across from a Chinese courtyard, and a peach-branch waved pink in the air.

[Footnote 6: Michaud climbed into a plum-tree, to gather plums.

The countryman thinks that it is best made of plum-tree, cherry, or oak, and that the larger it is the better.

Riding home I passed some beautiful woodland with charming pink and white blossoming peach and plum-trees, which seemed to belong to some orchard that had been attempted, and afterwards delivered over to wildness.

The same Lord Lothian, looking about the garden, directed his gardener's attention to a particular plum-tree, charging him to be careful of the produce of that tree, and send the whole of it in marked, as it was of a very particular kind.