Only the Katschei would have had night-blooming roses. From Wordnik.com. [The Chrome Borne]
This night-blooming conversation was unreal, Joe thought. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
She wasn't trying to mock the sun with night-blooming flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Painted Garden] Reference
They passed hedges with night-blooming flowers perfuming the air. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
The steam smelled like night-blooming flowers and late summer fruit. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
Sweet scent of flowers, night-blooming, and the moths are dancing. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
The flowers are large, and resemble those of the night-blooming variety. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
But the rarest of all the doctor's treasures was the night-blooming cereus. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Kirk caught the scent of something sweet, a night-blooming flower of some kind. From Wordnik.com. [DARK VICTORY] Reference
The surface of the sea was transformed into a meadow of night-blooming flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Across the lawn, at the far edge, he came upon the hedge of night-blooming cereus. From Wordnik.com. [THE KANAKA SURF] Reference
The fountain gurgled and the night-blooming jasmine filled the air with sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [The Payback Club]
The water was choked with grasses and night-blooming lilies and was as smooth as glass. From Wordnik.com. [Witches' Brew]
The hands opened slowly, like a night-blooming flower, to show the callused palms within. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
The beautiful night-blooming cereus, of which there are several species, is one of these. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The owner of the red fez and the night-blooming hiccoughs craved another pillow and a table. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
The air has a scent of sandalwood and arsenic; a night-blooming cereus blooms on a dark path. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
Bjork's new album "Vespertine" takes its name from the botanical term for night-blooming flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Life Of Pop Stars] Reference
• Plant a bed of night-blooming jasmine, honeysuckle, roses, or spicy petunias outside the window. From Wordnik.com. [How To Avoid Housework] Reference
Another thing that grows well here is datura, which has night-blooming flowers more or less continuously. From Wordnik.com. [Any Yucatan coastal area Gardeners out there?] Reference
A surprise: for several years—ten—a night-blooming cereus stalk has been knocked about in the greenhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Bridge] Reference
If 'Midnight Candy' is what I think it is I can hardly wait - it's a very sweetly fragrant night-blooming flower. From Wordnik.com. [New Release from Ineke - Evening Edged in Gold] Reference
Through the open window I could smell barbecue fires and water sprinklers, magnolia blossoms and night-blooming jasmine. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven’s Prisoners] Reference
Seldom speaking, he had a slow, shy smile that blossomed out of his beard like a night-blooming flower, rare but radiant. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
The air, perfumed faintly with night-blooming flowers, had cooled just a trifle since sundown but was still perfectly comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Elephant in the City] Reference
He no longer knew where her fragrance stopped and the fragrance of the night-blooming jasmine just outside on their balcony began. From Wordnik.com. [Three Tamales for the Señor Part Two] Reference
The air was cool now, laced with light rain, heavy with the fecund smell of wet humus, night-blooming jasmine, roses and new bamboo. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » August] Reference
Tossing the towel aside, he thought longingly of the sweet black tea Hodge used to brew from the night-blooming flowers in the greenhouse. From Wordnik.com. [City of Ashes] Reference
Pots of sweet-scented night-blooming flowers, imported from the Rain Wild, added their eerily glowing blooms to the colors of the walkways. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
We like to eat outside and drive with the top down and smell night-blooming jasmine, not dash through calf-high puddles in the parking lot. From Wordnik.com. [After the Rain] Reference
Propagation of night-blooming cereus is very simple. From Wordnik.com. [theadvertiser.com -] Reference
QUESTION: I was fortunate to have 12 blooms one night last week on my night-blooming cereus. From Wordnik.com. [theadvertiser.com -] Reference
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