palmy
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Displaced Parvati heads back to the palmy beach village of her youth, Prabha and Anu tagging along with her things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
Onstein added that the scientists also learned that spines and other plant defense structures had probably existed in the palmy vegetation prior to the extinction event.
From Salon ● May 3, 2022
In the palmy days before the ransacking, the abbess employs her to take notes on meetings with passing dignitaries, from whom she learns about many things, including gossip from the court about Anne Boleyn.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2018
"So many players have weak, palmy grips and open clubfaces," says Tillery.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 12, 2017
Besides, you should remember that the command in Exodus xvii. was only to be rehearsed in the ears of Joshua, and only had its true application in his bright and palmy days.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
In palmier times, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, appeared at a Russian cultural center in the capital of the Central African Republic, sitting with schoolchildren and promising them free laptops.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
Farine Bakery & Cafe expands with a second Eastside location near Overlake Medical Center, serving tartines and baguette sandwiches from breads made in house along with croissants, palmier and brioche.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
Buttery, shatteringly crunchy and sugary, it tasted like a croissant and a palmier had teamed up to create a pastry fit for the gods.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022
With the bill comes a house-made marshmallow or petite palmier.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2016
Maria reflected that the Ramseys had indeed come into palmier days, since they kept a maid so attired.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett
In all Washington's palmiest days of buck-passing, no such buck-passing had been seen as came now: steel was short, labor shirked, management mismanaged, Washington had failed to plan well.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a guide to voters, France-Soir published a glossary of political terms that made the French campaign sound much like one in Boston's Ward 17 during Mayor James M. Curley's palmiest days.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the mid-1970s, aided by handouts from the oil-rich gulf states, Syria enjoyed its palmiest years ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the days to come there would be the annual Christmas gathering of the Kennedy clan, with grandchildren galore, heaps of presents, and the palmiest weather that Florida could offer.
From Time Magazine Archive
We talked of the old London, the old Boston, both past their palmiest literary days.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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