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Beings with quilted folds of soft tissue sat on the seabed like rugs, and life forms that looked like fronded plants but were actually animals made anchor on the ocean floor.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 25, 2022

This Africa so richly blest With golden lands and fronded palms in air, The envy of great nations far and near, May yet the world lead back to peace and rest, Goodwill to all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of it was pinkish, and fronded like seaweed.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

“We know not where His islands lift their fronded palms in air; we only know we cannot drift beyond His love and care,” said Mrs. Applegate, with a solemn aside.

From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Brett, Harold M.

"I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air: I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care."

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss