Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages. |
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To provide a festival spirit, the spiral-bound projects of the students replaced the banyan leaves as festoons. |
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In contrast to more reserved garments like the banyan, the kilt became a symbol of a rough-hewn paradise. |
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Why not some panchayat, a round table under the overseer moon, or a palaver by the banyan tree? |
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The branches of the banyan tree had apparently entered deep into a building on Patullos Road and posed a threat to the stability of the building. |
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Among the section on trees, the pipal and the banyan were regarded as sacred or even as deities themselves in both Buddhist and Hindu traditions. |
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The day includes the ceremonial watering of banyan trees to commemorate the banyan tree under which Buddha sat when he attained enlightenment. |
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Under a banyan tree are a cluster of stones streaked with vermillion and considered the dwelling place of the snake god. |
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The monument is a massive flagpole entwined with the trunk and branches of a symbolic banyan tree forged in steel. |
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The banyan tree stood above all, its topmost branch trying to reach out to the sky. |
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We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her. |
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So, you bath under a banana or shower within the buttress roots of a banyan. |
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Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at banyan Partners, disagreed the acquisition was a desperate move. |
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The background of the shield is blue with a gold banyan tree in the centre. |
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Later we tour his plantation, through virgin forest of soaring ironwood and banyan trees and rustly arcades of cardamom leaves, with clusters of young green pods at the base. |
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The banyan trees reach out from the moldering remains of villas and colonial offices. |
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The banyan begins as an epiphyte on a host tree, where its seeds are dropped by a fruit-eating bird. |
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Ficus, the largest genus in the mulberry family, contains the banyan and the India rubber tree. |
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A porter stops to rest under the shade of a huge banyan tree, its trunk twisting out of the earth and its umbrella-like branches arching over a granite stairway. |
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Then it scampered off up the aerial roots of a nearby banyan tree. |
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The lac insect is found largely on banyan and juniper trees. |
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The garment was also termed a nightgown and a banyan and became fashionable for undress. |
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The Bodhi tree, under which Buddha attained enlightenment, was a banyan by another name. |
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The banyan is a lush tree with aerial roots that are sent down into the earth to form secondary trunks. |
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At some places they had to hold on to the hanging roots of banyan trees and take a leap by swing. |
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To the consciousness of the soul it is the potential where the whole banyan tree is printed on the plane of recollection. |
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The Mendoubia Park is splendidly laid out, dominated by a giant banyan tree, and graced with a multitude of venerable dragon trees. |
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The first banyan tree in the United States was planted by Thomas Alva Edison in Fort Myers, Florida. |
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The banyan has the branches becoming roots, and the roots again developing branches, and it keeps on expanding beyond any borders. |
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A giant banyan tree and a dragon tree, alleged to be 800 years old, highlight the visit. |
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Cedar tree, silk tree, pine tree, banyan and mango trees are considered sacred. |
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Under the shade of a banyan, we train our binoculars on the far side of the lake and Little grebes, Grey herons, godwits, coots and sandpipers resolve themselves into view. |
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Troops of langur monkeys scamper across limbs of ancient banyan trees. |
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The darkness referred to in meditation is like the banyan tree in a seed. |
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At Theosophical Society, sit under the 450-year-old banyan tree under which Annie Besant discoursed. |
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Not that it was all bad. every once in a while there was a banyan to enjoy and in port there were opportunities to splice the main brace when the Jimmy would call sliders. |
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Hodgkine's mural is of a banyan tree spreading its branches across the walls. |
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Meanwhile, the zamindar — feudal lord — of a village twenty miles upstream from the dam called the police about a white Toyota Corolla that had been abandoned by the canal, in the shade of a banyan tree. |
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A large portion of Hong Kong's present-day forest cover owes its origin to afforestation programs undertaken since World War II, which have restored some of the stands of pine, eucalyptus, banyan, casuarina, and palm trees. |
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In the end, that explains its success: the British never intended to implant their summer game in India, yet it took root, like the trailing limbs of the banyan, wherever it touched the subcontinent's dusty soil. |
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It compares Mrs Nakkunanandan, a former schoolteacher, to a banyan tree, a Hindu emblem of eternal life. But the room holds no books, magazines or furniture. |
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In some Pacific island cultures the banyan tree, of which the Bodhi tree is of the Sacred Fig variety, is the abode of ancestor spirits. |
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Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed. |
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I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat. |
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Tomorrow lunchtime, we fly to Bangkok, and thence to Phuket, where a week's stay at the Banyan Tree spa resort awaits us. |
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Here you can be massaged to within an inch of levitation, especially with its signature product, the Royal Banyan Treatment. |
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Banyan trees usually sprout at the most unlikely spots, like rooftops, cracks in concrete structures or over walls. |
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Two skilled therapists subject me to an extreme form of corporal reward known as the Harmony Banyan Massage. |
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Besides, centuries old trees of different species including Date Palm, Kau, Phulai, Banyan, Mango and Peepul would also be protected under the same project. |
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The resort will have a Banyan Tree spa and an activity island, and guests will get to dig appams with meen moile while taking a houseboat ride on the backwaters of Alappuzha. |
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The Baozhuangyan is now known as the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, after a famous poem composed by Su Shi after a visit during the Northern Song. |
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