The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in the air.

wavyleaf thistle

Those of Meshed further assured him, that at Candahar there are descendants of Simeon, also of Joseph (i. e. of Ephraim and Manasseh,) though they were outwardly conformed to Islamism;³ and he himself, when in Arabia, met with Israelites who declared themselves, and were believed by the Jews, to be of the tribe of Dan. Their usual residence was near Terim in Hatramawt.

He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.