Sentence examples for at the fig tree from inspiring English sources

--The American premiere of "Ladies in Waiting," a new play on women's suffrage by Canadian playwright Ellen Fox, will open at the Fig Tree Sept. 12. Sherry Landrum directs.

Playwright John Hans Menkes, who as a boy watched the Germans march into Vienna (and who for the past 20 years has been the head of neurology at UCLA), has written a play about the Nazi in all of us--a disquieting thought that "The Last Inquisitor" at the Fig Tree Theater cerebrally underscores.

I'm at home in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, where the fig tree in my tiny garden is covered in ripening fruit.

An informer meeting his controller -- at a secret spot in the occupied territories or in an apartment the agency has rented inside Israel for the purpose -- can bring tips about what is happening in a village or refugee camp: who, for instance, has taken to meeting whom under the fig tree at the edge of town.

Although I can still hear delivery trucks idling, sirens shrieking and cars honking, the fig tree makes me feel at least momentarily connected to the earth.

Especially from the fig tree?

And immediately the fig tree withered away.

Between fence posts, the fig tree blackens.

Listening to the cicada in the fig tree mix with the cooing doves on the roof.

The banana tree of the French title refers to an anecdote told in Chapter 15: in the first translation of the Gospel of Matthew into Malay, the parable of the fig tree was transformed into the parable of the banana tree (figs being unknown in Sumatra at that time).

Jesus curses the fig tree to make a point about faith.