"Broad-headed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... commences, a tree which is common as far west as Kashmir, but which I never found in Sikkim, though it appears again in Bhotan.* [This oak ascends in the N.W. Himalaya to the highest limit of forest (12,000 feet). No oak in Sikkim attains a greater elevation than 10,000.] It forms a broad-headed tree, and has a very handsome appearance; its favourite locality is on grassy open shoulders of the mountains. It was accompanied by an Astragalus, Geranium, and several other plants of the drier interior parts of Sikkim. Water is very scarce along the ridge; ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... onset of the maddened heart nought Phegeus might abide, But cast himself before the steeds, and caught and wrenched aside The bit-befoaming mouths of them, the heart-stung hurrying steeds. But while he hangeth dragged along, the spear broad-headed speeds Unto his shieldless side, and rends the twilinked coat of mail, And for the razing of his flesh a little doth avail: But he turned round about his shield and at the foemen made, And from his naked sword drawn forth sought ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... a large, broad-headed fish, without scales, and barbed—called by the natives "mosala"—attains an enormous size and fatness. They are caught so large that when a man carries one over his shoulder the tail reaches the ground. ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone |
