317 The myrtle is the young hair upon the side face. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I was in myrtle beach back in august and caught a shark surf fishing. i was fishin around 7: 30 or 8: 00 at night. From Wordnik.com. [we go to myrtle beach about every year and I never get to catch a shark. There is always a buch of people so I cant shore fish.] Reference
Not to worry — they wake up at different times, so there’s still a very good chance that your crape myrtle is just fine. From Wordnik.com. [This beautiful specimen is my crape myrtle « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog] Reference
Those tall palms are amazing, and that twisted tree trunk some kind of myrtle?. From Wordnik.com. [Exploring L.A.] Reference
It's also sweet, with a twist of lemon (lemon myrtle, that is). ". From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
In that moist soil too grew abundance of that kind of myrtle which bears the candle-berries. From Wordnik.com. [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference
The other variety is called the "myrtle" and is widely grown, although not in large quantities. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
Only I say 'myrtle' because it is less given to die and I say two to be sure of my chances of saving one. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
I’ve always imagined a thick lush moist kind of myrtle growing in picturesque cracks and crevices. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The end of the end of racism] Reference
A sword with myrtle-branches wreathed for ever in my hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision] Reference
He went out amongst the myrtle-trees; he breathed the calm, cool air. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Travis did not understand, for no crepe-myrtle had ever come into his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
How long they sat on the rustic bench under the crepe-myrtle they did not know. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Just then the notes of a bird singing out its soul came forth from the myrtle-trees. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
'Yonder through the myrtle-trees it stands,' replied a passer-by; 'but do not intrude. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Chios passed through the myrtle garden to his studio, but the brush was powerless in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The Scotch argus butterflies were flitting over the bog myrtle, ling and devil's-bit scabious. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Loch Ruthven] Reference
Those things would be familiar too — the towels and the sink, the window facing the crepe myrtle. From Wordnik.com. [Twine] Reference
I knew Saronia, and followed to protect, if needs be, and hid behind the myrtle-trees until she entered. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Belle and Dolly would envy her when she told them: "I have a myrtle-green riding-habit, just like Yvonne's.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But, O mystic odor of the crepe-myrtle -- O love which never dies -- how differently it grows and lives and blooms!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She had thrown back her head, and, half turned, was looking toward the crepe-myrtle tree from which the faint odor came. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
So extinguish the lamps of the lupines and the myrtle, and of a life turned terror under manmade myth of war and ownership. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Begins] Reference
The sweet day still cast its soft light, and lit up the lovely flowers and beautiful trees of olive, cypress, pine, and myrtle. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
He rode off and left her standing with her head still thrown back, her thoughtful face drinking in the odor of the crepe-myrtle. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Hueon, who finds a nosegay with a message, which bids him come to the myrtle-bower during the night, believes that it comes from. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
A thick, bushy growth of wild myrtle and flowering thorn had sprung up around it, and its surface was covered with emerald hued moss. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Was it the damp that brought the perfumes of the moorland so distinctly toward them -- the bog-myrtle, the water-mint and wild thyme?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Jackie Braitman planted two pink-flowering crape myrtle trees on the strip directly across from two crape myrtles on her own property. From Wordnik.com. [Gardeners Go to the 'Hellstrip'] Reference
The rose is red in the rich passion of love, the lily is pale in the poverty of it; but the crepe-myrtle is pink in the constancy of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
"And is it true, Thorwald, that instead of the thorn there came up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier there came up the myrtle-tree?". From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
The streets were as green as in early spring: the flowers were fewer, but the air was heavy with the fragrance of crape-myrtle and orange. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
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