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... the numerous daughters of his house appeared in the arch of white cluster-roses on the lower garden-terrace, and with an exclamation, stood petri- fi... ...hways lead- 11 George Meredith ing on aloft to the vicarage house. Behind roses the weeping couple disappeared. The last I saw of my friend was a smi...

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...o use it. A few of the house-fronts were covered by grape vines, others by roses climbing to the second-story windows, through which they wafted the f... ...ers many pharmaceutical treasures to medical science. The crusades brought roses from Jericho to this enchanting valley , where by chance they gained ... ...ance they gained new charms while losing none of their colors. The Provins roses are known the world over. But Provins is not only the French Persia, ... ... of the mud in the markets made them long for the fragrance of the Provins roses. They were the victims of a genuine nostal- gia, and also of a monoma... ...he French faculty,—a poten- tial worthy of the medicinal properties of our roses.” “That is one of the caprices of caprice,” said the old gentle- man.... ... the old Provins but the fragrance of our historical glory and that of our roses,—and a sub-pre- fecture!” “Ah! what mightn’t France be if she had onl...

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...e had shouted some shameless secret aloud. 71 Rudyard Kipling CHAPTER VII Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love’s delight. She would none o... ... love’s delight. She would none of all my posies,— Bade me gather her blue roses. Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew; ... ...the grave She shall find what she would have. Mine was but an idle quest,— Roses white and red are best! — Blue Roses. THE SEA had not changed. Its wa... ...ver was caked to brick, the roadside flowers were long since dead, and the roses in the garden hung withered on their stalks. The heat in the little l...

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...less cloth, and bearing in the middle a large bowl filled with oak boughs, roses, lilac, honey-suckle, and all the pride of the garden. At the head of...

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...ne—Mary Umpleby. She was a most de- lightful woman, I assure you. She grew roses. We used to stay with her in the old days.” “No young man likes to ha... ...iment to remind people of some one else. But Miss Umpleby—why did she grow roses?” “Ah, poor thing,” said Mrs. Thornbury, “that’s a long story. She ha... ...o be up at dawn—out in all weathers. And then there are creatures that eat roses. But she triumphed. She always did. She was a brave soul.” She sighed... ...n. I had one once in Ireland. One could lie in bed in the mornin’ and pick roses outside the window with one’s toes.” “And the gardeners, weren’t they...

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...e was dressed in a low white silk dress, with lace over, a wreath of white roses on her wig, a splendid lace veil, and her yellow old neck was covered...

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...Lone Barren Isle (St. Helena); The Last Link is Broken; She wore a Wreath of Roses the Night when last we Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 215 ... ...hese mansions stand in the center of large grounds, and rise, garlanded with roses, out of the midst of swelling masses of shining green foliage and m... ...in a hurry. The season being far advanced when we were in New Or leans, the roses and magnolia blossoms were falling; but here in St. Paul it was the...

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...ackeray women, her hold upon Sir Pitt’s affections was not very great. Her roses faded out of her cheeks, and the pretty freshness left her figure aft... ...r low spirits; insist upon her taking little drives. They will restore the roses too to your cheeks, if I may so speak to Mrs. Bute Crawley.” “The sig...

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...r and lighter figures who followed carried each a chaplet of red and white roses. They moved in procession around the chapel, without ap- 64 The Tali... ...ious knight, these are her very words—Tell him that the hand which dropped roses can bestow laurels.” This allusion to their meeting in the chapel of ...

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.... The largest room in the house was pleasingly ornamented with blue calico roses, plaid tulips, and other equally natural-looking artificial flow- ers...

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...; her interior shone with superfluous friction, with punctuality, with winter roses. Among these soft influences Verena herself bloomed like the flower t...

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...d on the earth, or on a bench, slept as soundly as if reposing on a bed of roses. I remember, particularly, to have passed a most delightful night at ... ...ng me with pleasure; I see nothing but charming objects, smell nothing but roses and orange flowers; singing, chatting, laughter, and amusements, perp...

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...e glass door, standing among the rusty locks and keys, like love among the roses—for which apt com parison the historian may by no means take any cre...

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...t out laughing, and cried out: “What a luxuri- ous horse thus to roll upon Roses!”—and with this witticism passed gently on through the mud. The next ...

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...IA .] LYSANDER: How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast? HERMIA: Belike for want of rain, which I co... ...ng violet grows, Quite over canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lul... ...own upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, And stick musk roses in thy sleek smooth head, And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle j...

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..., a unique and beautiful stretch of five hundred acres, planted thick with roses, violets, lilies, tulips, iris, carnations, tube- roses, poppies, hel... ...d her so deeply. She came to him from out of the flowers, the smell of the roses in her hair of gold, that hung in two straight plaits on either side ... ...nded a new odour, or the faint min- gling of many odours, the smell of the roses that lingered in her hair, of the lilies that exhaled from her neck, ... ...askets of the flower sellers, crammed with chrysanthemums, violets, pinks, roses, lilies, hyacinths, set a brisk note of colour in the grey of the str... ... then a long step into the proud, challenging beauty of the carnations and roses; and at last, after many nights, Vanamee felt that it paused, as if t... ... white iris. Then it left those behind. It was in the splendour of the red roses and carnations. It passed like a moving star into the superb abundanc... ...in the little valley, the resplendent colourations of the million flowers, roses, lilies, hyacinths, carnations, violets, glowed like incandescence in... ...she came to him. She came to him from out of the flowers, the smell of the roses in her hair of gold, the aroma and the impe- 306 The Octopus rial re... ... chari- ots and the like, all wreathed about with clouds and gar- lands of roses. Between the pillars around the sides of the room were hangings of si...

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...nt ownership was hard and carefully swept, but intersected by open drains. Roses, ivy, and tall grasses grew over the cracked and dis- jointed walls. ... ...p of green like a frieze, between the two stories. A few struggling Bengal roses make shift to live as best they may, half drowned at times by the dri... ...ve an old-fashioned wall-paper of a yellowish tint with a pattern of brown roses over it; the color had gone in patches here and there. There was a ro... ...ttle dwelling lay in its spot- less cleanliness. Climbing plants and briar roses grew about the house; a great walnut tree had been allowed to remain ... ...y of the room. He noticed the pattern of the paper that covered the walls— roses scattered over a gray background, and the straw mat- ting that did du...

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...osthumous ambition perhaps requires an at- 92 Across the Plains mosphere of roses; and the more rugged excitant of Wick east winds had made another b...

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...rreptitiously popping the blossoms, and trying to wreath her hat with wild roses. Thekla meantime admired from the opposite bank, in a state of much e...

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...ed to a small bedroom, where the fairest and youngest child lay dying; the roses had fled from his cheek, and the light from his eye; and even as the ...