"Banyan tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that He should love them with the love He has toward the Only-begotten—we could not have believed this unless we had been assured by the lips of infallible Truth. But the supreme revelation which towers above the rest, like some great banyan tree amid the slender growth of the Indian forest, is that the Creator should indwell and find a mansion in the ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... was then taken up by the dervishes and fakirs of the country in a religious point of view; they split into two parties, tried the question by a dispute under a banyan tree, which lasted eighteen months, and still not half of the holy men had given their sentiments upon the question; tired of talking, they proceeded to blows, and then to anathematisation and excommunication of each other; lastly, they ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat
... paint this scene, it would suit the stage—the marquee on the right, pale moonlight on its ridge, and warm light and colour showing through its entrance as ladies go in to put off their cloaks; its guy ropes are fast to branches and air roots of a banyan tree; and to the left there is another graceful tree, with wandering branches, hung with many red and yellow paper lamps, the branches like copper in the light and in shadow black against the dark blue sky. In front ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch
... you out, in case you then are free To stay awhile, beneath this banyan tree, And tell me all about your ...
— Poems of Experience • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... out she will project herself into other communities or perhaps other lands, into all sorts of industries, professions, and arts. Her growth is absolutely natural. It is, too, one of the most economical growths the world knows. Nothing is lost in it. She spreads literally like the banyan tree. ...
— The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell |
