boronia
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The breeze from the open window was tapping the blind softly to and fro, and wafting the scent of the boronia over her face.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
She focussed her eyes on something that swayed drunkenly: after awhile it stood still, and she saw that it was a little blue vase filled with boronia.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
She never afterwards saw a boronia without recalling the bewilderment of her fellow-travellers in the railway carriage at her exquisitely-scented burden.
From Captain Jim by Bruce, Mary Grant
And you approached that same tennis-court through a shady plantation, where every tree and shrub was native-born, and the ground carpeted with gay patches of boronia and other purely aboriginal loveliness.
From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.
Not the rose, or the violet, or the hyacinth, or any of the lilies or stephanotis or boronia.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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