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Meanings of palmy in English

Very lively and profitable.

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Usage of palmy in English
1
A look at this recalls past ages; the palmy days of Rome.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870.
2
I never in my palmy days disturbed a meeting, drunk or sober.
Dave Ranney / Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography
3
Broderick was a New Yorker, trained by Tammany in its palmy days.
California Sketches, New Series
4
Wilfrid and the Sussex heathen-PaghamHarbour in its palmy days-Bognor-Felpham 'sgreatrider-Mr.
Highways and Byways in Sussex
5
The household at Kelsey Farm had flourished in the palmy days of agriculture.
A Dozen Ways Of Love
6
This was in the palmy days of the Comstock, and everything was high.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Las...
7
The chief said that his grandfather had seen it in its palmy period.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
8
The palmy days of the minstrels and romancists had passed away.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
9
These were the palmy days for the substitute brokers and bounty-jumpers.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884
10
The Will had been drawn by James in his palmy days.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
11
I knew him in my palmy days, when life was young.
The Brentons
12
We were in Manton's Hotel at Levuka-Levuka in her palmy days.
By Reef and Palm
13
Them was the best days of my life childhood's palmy days.
The University of Hard Knocks
14
They must lead somewhere-tosomething else than common land, more palmy than the palms.
Moby Dick
15
But this state of things applied only to the republic in its palmy days.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
16
High in air the cocoanut tree lifts its palmy diadem.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 / Devoted...
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