Example Sentences

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What did it matter to them that the garden was neglected, the grass rank and uncut, the currant-bushes barren from neglect, the lilacs old and blossomless?

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

My cherished, but homely, wall flowers were dripping in the morning sunlight, and every leaf on my blossomless geraniums was carefully saturated.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

But the wild asters and the long convolvulus vines were choking the blossomless pinks and the sweet-williams and the few shy English flowers that were left.

From Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests by Pickthall, Marjorie L. C.

Soft blossomless frondage And foliage that gleams As to prisoners in bondage The light of their dreams, The desire of a dawn unbeholden, with hope on the wings of its beams.

From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The clipped yew stood dark and sombre as a solitary mourner among the blossomless rose-bushes.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson