He could think of nothing but an old familiar hedge of eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
But Sidonie cared no more for lilies of the valley than for eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The violet and the eglantine over the riven earth their flowers entwine. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
Tiny, perfect women sat reading on turfed seats under bowers of eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
And afterward he was led into a garden of Caiphas, and there he was crowned with eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
Buried in eglantine and honeysuckle, soon no one would suspect the home-made character of Joliet's château. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
We walked slowly so that I could keep an eye out for late-blooming eglantine and teasel heads, chatting casually. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Her form was simply perfect; her breath was like the eglantine, and her cheek wore the morning blush of the moss-rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca] Reference
Or the twisted eglantine, she wooed him to better work than reporting the debates of the archangels or calling the roll of Tophet. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
It is guarded from the winds by a juniper, which an eglantine has chosen for its guardian and crowns each year with a wreath of roses. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He appended the appellation d'Églantine to his surname in a hoax in which he claimed to have won a golden eglantine in a literary contest. From Wordnik.com. [Names] Reference
The windows were embowered with eglantine and other sweet shurubs, which hung in wild luxuriance around, and formed a beautiful and simple decoration. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
Then a flood of sunshine fell over the earth, and the roses burst into bloom, so did the eglantine, that had been hiding away till the sun gave the signal. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Violet, blushing eglantine in life; and even as they. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Sweet basil, ay, and eglantine and myrtles rich and rare. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
She was then a lily, but a lily grafted into an eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference
Amy, and Charlotte, busy over a sturdy stock of eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference
The cedars had it, and the roses, and the eglantine, under. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
The hedges were bright with the pure flowers of the eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House] Reference
This meed of poetic honour was an eglantine composed of silver. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
Gladly glancing, a merry puritan, through the twisted eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Hack branches; the apple trees were in flower, and along the hedges the frail eglantine smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
I rose at an early hour, and looked out between the branches of eglantine which overhung the casement. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)] Reference
Hawthorn for May, eglantine for June, and in autumn a little tass of the golden vine for our Northern Star. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Priory for extent would swallow up many such, and for beauty and dignity were as a damask rose to a bit of eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume I] Reference
Thick spikes of purple lavender edged the beds; the summer-house was a tangle of honey-suckle, rosemary, and eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [Nine Little Goslings] Reference
Every garden blossomed with flowers; roses and eglantine clustered over the cottages, neatness and order prevailed everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Thorndyke's Secret] Reference
The place was all draped in ivy, and roses, and eglantine, with a blooming flower-garden in front, and a luscious orchard behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
We in vain hoped to find on the mountains of Caracas, and subsequently on the back of the Andes, an eglantine near these brambles. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Her fairy bower was a bank, where grew wild thyme, cowslips, and sweet violets, under a canopy of wood-bine, musk-roses, and eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference
It lies in a little dell embowered with wild roses and eglantine, among which the nightingale pours forth its amorous descant all the summer long. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
The chiselled stone has the hue of ages, and is profusely overhung and overspread with the ivy, the coral honeysuckle, the eglantine, and the clematis. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
The cottage, with its porch covered with clematis and eglantine, stood in a good garden in which the captain delighted to work during his leisure hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley] Reference
She pointed to where, at her feet, the hurrying stream rested an instant, to take breath, in a deep, dusky little pool, overhung by a tangle of eglantine. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Paramount] Reference
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