Cypress has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | "Ye too, my servants, hearken my commands. / Outside the city is a mound, where, dear / to Ceres once, but now deserted, stands / a temple, and an aged cypress near, / for ages hallowed with religious fear." | |
| 2. | So to his shade, with funeral rites, we rear / a mound, and altars to the dead prepare, / wreathed with dark cypress. Round them, as of yore, / pace Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair. / Warm milk from bowls, and holy blood we pour, / and thrice with loud farewell the peaceful shade deplore. | |
| 3. | Barren trees are the fir, elder, birch, cypress, beech, ivy, sallow, linden and so on, but most of them afford shade. | |
| 4. | The main type of tree in this part of the forest is the cypress. | |
| 5. | The house is surrounded by a wall, on the other side of which cypress trees are growing. | |
| 6. | The house is surrounded by a wall, on the other side of which there are cypress trees growing. | |
| 7. | Surrounding the house is a wall, beyond which there are cypress trees growing. | |
| 8. | Later, when they had left, there wasn't a single living soul to be seen on the quay. The town, with its cypress trees, seemed completely deserted; only the sea continued to roar and crash against the shore. |