The wistaria is a very Japanese flower, and it has a feminine elegance. From Wordnik.com. [Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Nor why he insisted upon a cluster of wistaria set in amethysts. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Being a man of feeling, he had in a large jar a most unusual wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The wistaria is all torn away where she clutched at it to save herself. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
There were bowers of sweet Southern roses and honeysuckle and wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
She was still in her place, a smiling study in wistaria and silver gray. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
The wistaria along the fence was green and the shade was cool and life was old. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
She came in with the flowers in a vase, and the smell of wistaria filled the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Key to Rebecca]
A drapery of wistaria in full bloom festooned across one end and half over the front. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The cabin, the wistaria ladder, the punt, the girl by the willow in the gold brocade. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
The two cottages, knocked into one, still had their ramblers, wistaria, and thatched roof. From Wordnik.com. [Over the River] Reference
A shadow moved under the blackness of the wistaria vine; he stopped short, his hackles rising. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
It was inevitable that he should see in the wistaria ladder the means to starlit hours of delight. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
To make compliance with programs easier, quantities of seed, such as that of wistaria, have been imported. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Castro Addresses ICA on Livestock] Reference
Thereupon she wove, in a single night, a robe and sandals from the unopened buds of the lilac and white wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Except for a vast, ancient wistaria which climbed all over the front of the south wing, it was without adornment. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
Where did she go now in the starlit darkness, climbing down the wistaria ladder with a cloak around her shoulders?. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Virginia creeper, wistaria, honeysuckle, a climbing rose, the clematis and trumpet vine are all most satisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Mr. Randolph Cuyler, who live across the lawn in Brandon Cottage with its dormer windows and wistaria-draped veranda. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Even the wistaria failed to bloom; when the flames came its tender clusters of buds were just forming, and shriveled. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Suddenly the leader halted with a loud cry of triumph and pointed grandly out through one of the wistaria-hung openings. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Ah, here it was, the Villa Firenze -- a spacious, even imposing mansion of pinkish brick, the front covered in wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The wistaria to which she had clung was broken away in several spots, a whole spray of it fluttered loose from the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
A little brown house built of logs was almost entirely covered with vines, a tangle of woodbine and honeysuckle and wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
From these arches hung festoons of marguerites, wistaria, orange and lemon blossoms, the streets being canopied with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 33, June 24, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
Near the palace lies a garden planted with azaleas, and also containing some trellises wholly covered in season with wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] 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
The heavy door is closely studded with nails, and over it fall the delicate sprays and lilac 'butterfly' blossoms of a wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
When the wistaria is full of bloom many times have I wish to sit upon balustrade that I might make rain of wistaria blossoms upon. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Maids of Far Cathay] Reference
It was square and white; an old wistaria, an old Gloire-de-Dijon, and a newer carmine cluster-rose contended for possession of its surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
The wistaria ladder, the cloister of pines, the lonely cabin where Joan spent truant hours of peace, were to him things of infinite pathos. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
I believe I shall always think of that day when I see wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Betty Across the Water] Reference
In the purpling dusk the perfume of wistaria grew sweeter and sweeter. From Wordnik.com. [Iole] Reference
Soon the wistaria would bloom, then the horse-chestnut; but not for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1] Reference
The breeze scarcely stirred the leaves of the wistaria vines over the windows. From Wordnik.com. [Three Little Cousins] Reference
In their hands they carried long trails of the lovely blossom of the wistaria. From Wordnik.com. [Cornwall's Wonderland] Reference
Nobody else has such lilacs or rambler roses, and I expect you have the only wistaria vine in. From Wordnik.com. [One of Ours] Reference
How he did whimper when I had to drag him away from you that day in the wistaria arbour at Central. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Betty Across the Water] Reference
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