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Absalom started back on his mule, fell into a thicket, and became entangled by his long hair in the branches of a large terebinth.

The lofty trees, the terebinth, the evergreen pine and the cypress were sacred to her; the pomegranate, the symbol of fruitfulness, was her peculiar fruit.

The eastern slopes are comparatively bare of trees; but the western are well supplied with oak, terebinth and pine.

He hears "the small hushed cry of crisp dry life The terebinth gives beneath the graver's knife."

Awkward and shy he neared her, daring not To startle eyes that lost in reveries swam; From terebinths were fluttered scents, and from The soil's fermenting mounted odours hot.