I used to tell you it was the jessamine; the jessamine is a simpleton, I tell you. From Wordnik.com. [Rita] Reference
"Will you have a spray of jessamine?" he asked, breaking off. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
A gentle breath stole out with a scent of jessamine and such a memory!. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
To the left, the wall is covered with climbing plants, wild grapes, Virginia jessamine. From Wordnik.com. [Ursula] Reference
Adjacent to the schoolroom was a large garden in the middle of which was a jessamine arbor. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
I raised them, and the cool, damp air, heavy with the odor of jessamine, floated into the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
Nobody at Court used perfumery except that old woman; her gloves were always scented with jessamine. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
'Have you, indeed?' cried he, sprinkling some jessamine drops upon his hands; 'how horribly abominable?. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Again the six little girls are waiting, two and two, but they carry white flowers, lilies, roses, and jessamine. From Wordnik.com. [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference
By — and — by a lady came out, and began to gather some of the roses and jessamine that hung about the porch. From Wordnik.com. [The Olive Fairy Book] Reference
A delicious fragrance from tropic flowers fills the air -- the perfumes of the jessamine, the magnolia, the cereus. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
One evening in the jessamine arbor, in the fragrant darkness of the warm spring night, the end came: Christine was won. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
Such are the cape jessamine and the narcissus, alike glistening in satin raiment, and alike distilling aromatic essence. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She lay very quiet, sleepy and comfortable, her eyes fixed idly on a curve in the jessamine-pattern paper opposite her bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
She leant out of her open window in a frame-work of roses and jessamine, and looked out over the lime-trees towards the Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
"Please to see, sir; a pretty rose, sir, and these pinks and mignonette, and a bunch of jessamine, sir, and all for one penny.". From Wordnik.com. [Fanny, the Flower-Girl, or, Honesty Rewarded] Reference
We had a hard march climbing up hill between magnificent hedges of jessamine in bloom, the flowers of which were very beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
The moon was bright as day and the early May dew brought out the fragrance of the jessamine and clematis climbing over the balustrade. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
She stood on the front veranda as he quitted the house, and absently picked a few sprays of jessamine that grew upon a trellis near by. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
There they were, showering down from the big waxen bells of the magnolias far above her head, and from the jessamine clumps around her. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
He was always decorated with flowers in some way -- a necklace of jessamine buds, pointed red peppers, or the scarlet fruit of the pandanas. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
The leaves surrounding the flowers are of the shape of the jessamine, and to these are added tendrils and queer-looking bunches of seed-vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886.] Reference
Many of them had their hair dressed either with white jessamine or with roses stuck into their round combs, and several wore gold beads and ear-rings. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
The buildings should be painted or whitewashed, and over the house may clamber and beautify it the woodbine, the jessamine, the honeysuckle, or the rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A house with a big garden beyond, where, supposing a lady ever came to live there who was fond of flowers, roses might be grown, honeysuckle, jessamine trained. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Already the familiar perfume came floating over the waters -- that sweet blending of many odors, of cocoanut-oil and baking breadfruit, of jessamine and gardenia. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
There was an overpowering fragrance from the orange groves, where blossom and unplucked fruit showed side by side; the jessamine bushes were scarcely less fragrant. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
The roof was newly thatched, and up the sides grew the rose and jessamine, which mingled their flowers in profusion as they clustered over a snug little latticed porch. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
There in a summer's day she often rested, hidden in jessamine and honeysuckle; and there I now took refuge, attracted to the spot by its strong association with herself. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
Solemn cypress trees mark the by-paths; delicate flowers bloom along their borders, and jessamine vines twine lovingly about the branches of palmetto and magnolia trees. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
On the left side of the terrace under a lattice work of wood woven with rose and jessamine I was ushered, and shewn into a small apartment furnished in the Eastern style. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
His memory lingered over the vine-shaded verandah, the jessamine that grew by the balustrade of the steps, the broad-leaved myrtle that covered the wall of the little yard. From Wordnik.com. [Ionica] Reference
She had not long left the room when the slumberer's eyes opened gradually and stared with the fixity of semi-consciousness at a stem of blossoming jessamine in the wall-paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
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