Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit.
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1 It was but a chest of shittimwood , with two slabs of lettered stone in it,-andwhat help was in that?
1 There were fig-trees, persimmons, mock orange , and shrubs ablaze with blossoms.
2 This is true of grapes, quince, hybrid perpetual roses, shrubby hibiscus, crape myrtle, mock orange , hydrangea (paniculata), and others.
3 The sweet smell of mallow and mock orange flowers wafted through the byways, perfuming the cobblestone lanes sweeter than a baby's breath.
4 In the foyer and dining room and kitchen, the air swims with the scent of phantom flowers, shimmering with sweet, heavy mock orange .
5 The sense of peace the poet feels in her garden with its mock orange and sky-blue delphiniums is warming, but her fire has gone.
1 Behind her came a servant bearing a shittim - wood casket.
2 The Ephesian actress motioned toward the shittim - wood casket.
3 Costobarus motioned to the shittim - wood casket and Momus undid it and strapped it on his own belt.
4 Costobarus went to a cabinet on the wall and drew forth a shittim - wood case which he unlocked.
5 O fitting place and appropriate for a library, which was made of imperishable shittim [i.e.
6 When his footsteps died away the old merchant reached under the divan and drew forth the shittim - wood box.
7 Of shittim wood covered within and without with pure gold, surmounted with a golden crown and two cherubims of gold.
8 Also, I send herewith a shittim - wood casket found with John of Gischala when he was captured in a cavern under Jerusalem.
9 It is an imperishable wood, while that usually pointed out as the " shittim " (or 'Acacia nilotica') soon decays and wants beauty.
10 O fitting place and appropriate for a library, which was made of imperishable shittim - wood , and was all covered within and without with gold!
11 For when God bade Moses make an altar of shittim wood and overlay it with brass, Moses said to God: O Lord of the world!
12 And then it goes on to 'blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood.'
13 Joshua rose up early in the morning and set out from Shittim .
14 36:20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
15 37:4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
16 And here we had broad-water patches, in and out, inlaid on land, like mother-of-pearl in brown Shittim wood.
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