We followed travelers and explorers,--Layard to Nineveh, and Stephens to Yucatan. And we were as fond of good story-books as any girls that live in these days of overflowing libraries. One book, a character-picture from history, had a wide popularity in those days. It is a pity that it should be unfamiliar to modern girlhood,--Ware's "Zenobia." The Queen of Palmyra walked among us, and held a lofty place among our ideals of heroic womanhood, never yet obliterated from admiring remembrance.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Western bank. Palmerston. Palmyra. Paracells. Paraquas. Patchow. Pelew islands. PEMBA island, singular form of.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》
This was in 1294; the palmy period, or culmination time of the TEUTSCHES RITTERTHUM. Concerning which, on wider accounts, we must now say a word.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 2》
'From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand - Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down the yellow sand - From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.'英文原著 · 《Letters》
I stopped three days with Hon. Cony, Deputy Marshal of the Kingdom, at Hilo, Hawaii, last week and by a funny circumstance he knew everybody that I ever knew in Hannibal and Palmyra. We used to sit up all night talking and then sleep all day. He lives like a Prince. Confound that Island! I had a streak of fat and a streak of lean all over it--got lost several times and had to sleep in huts with the natives and live like a dog.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》