Ornamental tree

Usage examples of chinaberry.

As a boy in Leake County, Barnett would sit on the porch under a chinaberry tree and listen to his father, John William Barnett, tell tales of his years as a Confederate soldier, witnessing the siege of Vicksburg, having his horse shot out from under him at the Battle of Shilo, and seeing his own father, Captain John Henry Barnett, return home from four years in the Confederate army in clothes riddled by Union gunfire.

As they made their way toward the business section, Michael pointed out each tree and flowered bush that they passed: crepe myrtle, mimosa, chinaberry, and the fragrant tea olive.

The path grew more steep and rocky once she had passed the fork leading to the chinaberry tree, but Ellen climbed on until she reached the top.

Four THEY WALKED up to the chinaberry tree on Sunday morning, Ellen and her father, carrying a bou quet of red salvia, which grew in a clump by the steps.

The yellow balls from the chinaberry tree lay scat tered all over the ground, and Ellen crunched them underfoot.

When they were through, they sat together be neath the chinaberry and savored the breeze on their faces.

Edward liked looking at the homes they passed, homes where small hopes had been effectively met, thinking of himself both as an integral part of that world, of having a home like that himself where the warm yellow light from the interior laced the edges of the leaves of the chinaberry tree that stood just outside the glass, and somehow, too, as a glider in that world, a planetary traveler with no exceptional powers or capacities, and every good intention.

Up there, be neath a chinaberry tree, was her mother's grave, marked by a quartz stone she used to keep on the window ledge to see the sun shine through.

Pride-of-India, Chinaberry tree, China tree (Melia azedarach}: small tree.

He knew that there was no money in the flour sack, because he had seen them bury it under the chinaberry tree.

Maybe she had known it, ever since the day in Central Park when she had taken a careless shot at a chinaberry tree with a cheaplooking .

Red Sammy was lying on the bare ground outside The Tower with his head under a truck while a gray monkey about a foot high, chained to a small chinaberry tree, chattered nearby.

A noisy cloud of sparrows swept across the lot and into a chinaberry tree beside the house, and in the high soft vague blue swallows swooped and whirled in erratic indecision, their cries like strings plucked at random.

Sitting there, he remembered the old black man he had talked with one afternoon, deep in Alabama, sitting on the ramshackle porch of the neat, ramshackle house, with the shade of a chinaberry tree shielding them from the heat of the late-afternoon sun.

After World War II, Eldred had laid out some of his hard-earned cash to buy Kenny a shaggy, sway-backed pony, which the Stouts had kept tethered to a chinaberry tree in the backyard.