(Laurus nobilis) A shrub of the family Lauraceae.
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In the morning of the 10th, the Discovery arrived in the bay.
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Keeping Angela Merkel at bay might be a good place to start.
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Police held the crowd at the bay and there was no violence.
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We gazed west to the sea and shoreline towns across the bay.
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She had a great deal of experience keeping such panic at bay.
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It writhed and groaned, while the wind roared in the laurel walk.
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He did not even reach the laurel-trees however, before the guards arrived.
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Earlier in the season laurel and honeysuckle shed their fragrance into it.
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Caesar was a laurel-crowned blackguard in his relations with the divine Cleopatra.
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Here they feed upon the leaves of the laurel and other evergreens.
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Poison oak, sweet bay trees, calcanthus, brush, and chaparral, grew freely but sparsely all about it.
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Huge aloes grow in the shade, and the sweet bay and bushes of rosemary make the air fresh and fragrant.
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It's made from the leaves of the sweet bay tree, which grows on all these islands and all over this country.
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Even if I'd believed her story, I couldn't hate the magnificent laurel groves that encircled the villa and lent it a sweet bay perfume.
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A huge California bay laurel tree grew thirty feet from the back of the house, its massive arms stretching leafy branches in a hundred directions.
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Bay laurel trees, each standing taller than a man, filled the air with fragrance.
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A lattice shed had been built beyond the washhouse past the bay tree.
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Mr. Brown found a more lowly seat beneath a bay tree.
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It is furnished by the bay tree, which grows here.
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They looked like a bunch of monkeys climbing around in the big bay tree.
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I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green- bay tree.
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The name is extended to other plants which in some respect resemble the true laurel.
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For the true laurel-wreath which glory weaves