They reached the place where the hollies grew, which was in a conical pit, so that the tops of the trees were not much above the general level of the ground.
Every sign of the festivities had been swept away; the holly had been removed from the schoolroom walls, and the forms and desks put back into their places.
If you put some of the bark of the holly tree into an old sauce-pan with a little water, and stew it slowly on the fire, you will get a sticky white stuff.
There was no doubt that he himself was the cause of that gun's discharge; and he rushed into the clump of hollies, beating the bushes furiously with his stick; but nobody was there.
Something about it is beautiful, its color most of all, and tall palms bend over it, and there are live oaks and holly and a few orange trees around it, and the hammock is a soft curtain beyond it.