disasters

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These are to be left unplanted: so is the platform under the pinasters, whence there is a prospect of the city, the harbour, the isle of Salamis, and the territory of Megara.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Its road carries you into the heart of the sierra which surrounds San Remo, a hill-country something like the Jura, undulating and green to the very top with maritime pines and pinasters.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

I had forgotten that I proposed to myself a trip as far up as the pinasters, to look at the precipice of Oreithyia.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

The pinasters are thriving very well, and in a year or two more Joanna's Bower will be worthy of the name.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

I have seen these pinasters from the extremity of the Piraeus, and have heard mention of the altar raised to Boreas: where is it?

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage