English vocabulary examples in context: baobab
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 1.
In the evening camped under an enormous baobab with white flowers and a light green foliage.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 2.
He was seized by the chief of this region, fastened to the foot of a baobab, and the ferocious black then severed all his joints while the war-song of his tribe was chanted; he then made a gash in the prisoner's neck, stopped to sharpen his knife, and fairly tore away the poor wretch's head before it had been cut from the body.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 3.
The doctor immediately recognized that immense clearing, ten miles in extent, with its villages buried in the midst of baobab and calabash trees.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 4.
There they were, isolated at the top of one of the larger branches shooting out in the midst of one of those miniature forests called baobab-trees.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 5.
Some of the natives had really climbed the baobab, and now they were seen rising on all sides, winding along the boughs like reptiles, and advancing slowly but surely, all the time plainly enough discernible, not merely to the eye but to the nostrils, by the horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub their bodies.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 6.
The baobab, over which the balloon was hanging almost motionless, stood in the centre of a clearing, where, between fields of Indian-corn and sugar-cane, were seen some fifty low, conical huts, around which swarmed a numerous tribe.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 7.
Vegetation reappeared, however, along with the mimosas, the baobabs, and the tamarind-trees.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 8.
The tops of some baobabs, mimosas, and date-trees peeped up between the houses; and, even at night, the activity of the place seemed very great.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 9.
At the last one, it caught by the upper part of the network in the lofty branches of a baobab, the only tree that stood there, solitary and alone, in the midst of the waste.
Vocabulary in context: baobab -- Example 10.
With this the balloon, now completely inflated by the increased temperature, moved away, sweeping the branches of the baobab in her flight.
