Lexicographical Neighbors of Lebbeks
Literary usage of Lebbeks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Queer Things about Egypt by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1911)
"... Elephantine is to sail round it; then its shoals of golden sand, its wild
elephants of rock, its Bordighera wealth of ancient palms, its shady lebbeks, ..."
2. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"Then sometimes the date palm is not alone; here and there it is accompanied by
great lebbeks, or tamarisks, or different sorts of acacias. ..."
3. Egypt by James Carlile McCoan, Wilfred C. Lay (1902)
"... the Nile bridge to the Pyramids, which is already nearly as completely shaded
for more than half its length by a double row of fine thriving lebbeks. ..."
4. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"On quitting the palm-grove we obtain an attractive view; immediately to the right,
shaded by palm-trees and lebbeks, is the small Howe of Tigran-Bey, ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1891)
"Between my window and the garden were three or four noble lebbeks, growing in a
large open space. Above them at this hour hawks were always circling and ..."
6. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"On quitting the palm-grove we obtain an attractive view; immediately to the right,
shaded by palm-trees and lebbeks, is the small House of Tigran-Bey, ..."
7. Egypt as it is: With a Map, Taken from the Most Recent Survey by James Carlile McCoan (1877)
"... the Nile bridge to the Pyramids, which is already nearly as completely shaded
for more than half its length by a double row of fine thriving lebbeks. ..."
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