What is "banyans"

Usage examples of "banyans".

Already, singleton banyans floated along the edge of the shoal, turning in stately circles.

Captain Lorquital ordered the mast lowered, for the canopies of the banyans sometimes pressed together overhead to form a living green arch.

The night was full of the creaking and groaning of banyans which were beginning to shift on the currents.

All around, floating banyans rocked to and fro, as stately as green-clad dowagers at a ball.

The smoldering stumps of banyans poked through water choked with ashes and the corpses of parboiled fish.

It was burnished with the light of the setting sun, and drifting banyans showed black against it.

Besides—for Christ’s sake, you Banyans make even Jews and Armenians seem like nuns in the bazaar.

Indeed, the street to the Kathiawar Gate was lined with much that would have been scenic, if not for the dust in their eyes: vast gardens of wealthy Banyans and Moguls, mosques, pagodas, reservoirs, and wells.

Wandering from one part of the camp to the next, Jack could see not only penniless wanderers and fakirs but also rich Banyans like Surendranath, as well as various Mogul officials.

Jack already knew what they would find there: a landing for boats coming up the river from the Gulf, and a marketplace where Pieces of India were peddled to Banyans or European buyers.

The wealthiest Banyans in Surat and bankers in Genoa lay their perfumed heads on silken pillows at night, and dream of sending a few bales of cargo across the Pacific on the Manila Galleon.

Although he aimed for the dark, distant shore, he quickly found himself in a swift current that took him amongst a scattered shoal of banyans.

Caphis built a fire of dried moss in the upturned turtle shell and boiled up tea in the resmi mug, using friable strips of the bark of a twiggy bush that grew, he said, high up in the tangled tops of the banyans.

We've never risen above our animal selves since the Preservers gave us the banyans as our province, and that is the excuse the Mud People use when they hunt us.

The Preservers brought light that melted the ice and woke the seeds of the banyans which were trapped there.