The windows were open, and the orioles were singing in the great elm-tree, and the laburnum was a bower of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Montfort] Reference
That laburnum has been an eyesore this many a day. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Lilacs and laburnum trees bloom abundantly around. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference
Now, on the little lawn grew a rather tall laburnum tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference
In gardens it fell over flowering bushes of lilac and laburnum. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
No one had forced her to walk in the laburnum alley with the duke. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Dangerous]
When she reached the corner under the laburnum tree she stood erect. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
Just happening to be sitting in the laburnum alley when he chose to walk there. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Dangerous]
The sight of flowering laburnum always reminds me that my birthday is approaching. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers & Sons] Reference
I am not familiar with laburnum blossoms, so won't be able to confirm that for you. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Grandma – I] Reference
All along the road to-day our way was lined with a beautiful sort of lilac laburnum. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
He guided the tub to the laburnum tree, where a piece of the rope was still hanging. From Wordnik.com. [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference
We were just stepping into the rose arbor as the duke was stepping out of it onto the laburnum alley. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Dangerous]
He vanished behind a laburnum, and appeared again clambering over a fence that abutted on the open down. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
Exquisite and graceful trees rose above them; the laburnum, no longer in bloom, acacias, and the lovely pepper tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
As blinds against the sun they have lattices of trees down every street -- white-blossoming laburnum, poplars, sycamores. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
It had all been laburnum and magnolia and almond blossom in her childhood, and talk of the Sitwells and Debussy and Handel. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
During the summer 1881, I saw cocoons of my own Cynthia race obtained from worms which had been reared on the laburnum tree. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
At least, Joseph, "he added, with the air of a man who finds consolation in disappointment," we'll trim the laburnum this time. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Then the laburnum, which, dripping gold, drips honey likewise, and the locust clusters, and the wistaria, dropping lusciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Helena sat sideways, with a map spread out on her bench under the bushy little laburnum tree, tracing the course of their wanderings. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
She looked carefully where she was going to put her coffee-cup, and then she glanced out again at the laburnum hanging over the plains. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
His lordship hung his saw upon a rung of the ladder, and leaning a little over took a grasp of the bough of a sweeping laburnum which overhung the road. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
See the pretty cottage under the laburnum curls!. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Hamlet or in the sequestered arbour at the end of the laburnum walk. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Lucia] Reference
His fig tree, which some one else had planted, his laburnum -- a slip from one at Rickmansworth, the seat of the late Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference
The lily had similar thoughts about her neck; while the golden laburnum thought it and the sunbeams had been the making of her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children] Reference
He went into the garden, and deliberately, almost as if he wished to gain time, chose and cut off a little switch from the laburnum-tree. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth] Reference
The shrubbery was bright with laburnum and lilac, the beds swarmed with daffodils and narcissi and with lilies of the valley in the shade. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
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