Lexicographical Neighbors of Arbutes
Literary usage of Arbutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Fairer in lonely grots green arbutes rise, Fairer the streamlet wends its wandering
way, Lovelier bright pebbles gem their native bay, And birds sing ..."
2. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"... thighs laden with thyme; they feed at large on arbutes, and grey willows, on
cassia, and glowing crocus, on the gummy lime, and deep-coloured hyacinths. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1845)
"... Printed on paper and bound in leather, Last month in the white of a matin-prime,
Just when the birds sang all together, And under these arbutes and ..."
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