It is perched on a lush, green island in the broad river, graceful palms waving over its narrow columns, tamarisk clustered thick about the foundations.

One of the most graceful false palms, it is undemanding and will take some neglect uncomplainingly.

The gardens of the hotel were lush with lawns and tall graceful palms, children shrieked gleefully around the swimming pool while a cool light breeze broke the heat.

A highly talented ruckman with a strong overhead mark, and a delightfully graceful and accurate "palm", he walked straight into the Essendon senior team at 19 years of age.

Candles, in colored globes, were strung among the graceful palms, lending a multicolored illumination to this novelty of an outdoor ball.

He saw the laboratory building behind the psychiatrist and the bright blue Hawaiian sky and the grass and graceful palms out by the beach.

Chief of these were the graceful palms with stern s sculptured like a claret bottle.

The fall of water was snow-white, which had a superb effect as it contrasted with the dark cliffs that walled the river, while the graceful palms of the tropics and wild plantains perfected the beauty of the view.

She didn't understand how beautiful a grove of seven green Bismarckias - graceful palms with striking fanlike leaves - would look standing by the pool.

TIERED verandas and graceful palms remain hallmarks of Brisbane, despite the surge of shiny new office buildings that tower above the mangrove-fringed banks of the Brisbane River.