Citations:ethel

English citations of ethel

1884, Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling, The Dictionary of English History, page 440:
[…] the owner of an ethel gradually took to the custom of receiving charters. Many of the smaller allodial holders, indeed, seem to have sold their land to the wealthier lords, or to have commended themselves to a patron, and so received back […]

1872, Thomas Milner, The gallery of geography: a pictorial and descriptive tour, Northern Africa: Tripoli, volume 2, page 949:
Hence they turned inland over the prairies of the Belasa, visiting Murzuk and Ghat, through valleys rich in herbage and clothed with ethel-trees; gradually ascending until a table-land was reached, […]
1857, Henry Barth, Travels and Discoveries […] in the year 1849—1855, volume 1, page 231:
Monday, August 12th. Our route followed the windings of the valley, which, father on, exhibited more ethel than talha-trees, […]
1908, Charles Montagu Doughty, Wanderings in Arabia, volume 2, page 141:
and there beside a bluish dark wood of ethel trees, upon high dunes!