The Catbird builds in syringa bushes, and other shrubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [May, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

From the Gray Man's misty robes came the fragrance of syringa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

Wistaria chinensis, and brightened by azalea and syringa clusters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference

Bert searched in the close syringa bushes where the nests are usually found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference

Mma Potokwane spotted him, as usual, as he parked his car under one of the syringa trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tears Of The Giraffe]

Long ropes of smilax and syringa, intertwined with pink tulle, swung from the high ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

Sitting under a trellis, with the scent of syringa in the air, her performance enchanted General Xue.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

These are Jacaranda mimosifolia, Lantana camara, syringa (Melia azedarach), and white mulberry (Morus alba).    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Africa bushveld] Reference

The breezes played pranks, and blew the syringa petals to the ground, and up in the tallest trees the birds had a concert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Stories] Reference

Do you remember, Molly dear, how you and I once quarreled when we were, oh, such mites of children, about a sprig of syringa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

A syringa was planted in front, and a broom-tree on the right united it with the willow; in the middle there was a deal table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

The common syringa has an exact cucumber flavor and can be a substitute for cucumber in salads or wherever that flavor is desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference

They went into the front room, which was dim with the twilight of the half-closed blinds and two great syringa bushes that grew against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passing of Sister Barsett] Reference

My favorite thing was all of the syringa flowers, like etched on the carpet how do they even do that? and in the glass windows...very pretty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twin Falls Temple] Reference

The sidewalk outside was brick, and whenever she heard footsteps coming she stepped back into the shadow of the syringa and was hidden from view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Brown house; they were quite overwhelmed by it, and for more than an hour they sat under the syringa bushes peeping through at their lost domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference

It was almost dark when we approached the house; a real farmhouse, with lilac and syringa bushes in front, and a honeysuckle running over the piazza.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grandmother's Recollections] Reference

While they drank coffee after the morning meal lying on their blankets beneath a grove of syringa trees, Sean remarked: "You haven't told us your name yet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

On this particular afternoon, Mme. de Guermantes had given me, knowing that I was fond of them, some branches of syringa which had been sent to her from the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captive] Reference

On one side is a syringa, smelling and looking like an orange-tree, -- a jar of roses on the table before me, -- fresh gathered roses, -- the pride of my gardener's heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

The syringa bushes were in full bloom and fragrance, and other sweet odors filled the air beside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Leicester A Story For Girls] Reference

Odors of syringa and lilac freshened her, cleansing her of the last lingering taint of joss-sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iole] Reference

The syringa and hyacinths gave out a still stronger odor, though the cold increased in that chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts] Reference

And turning away from the porch, she ran between the flowering syringa bushes down the path to the gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia] Reference

Farquhar's gaze were two young people standing among the unkempt rose and syringa bushes in the little front garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference

Nothing seemed to hold it to the earth except the stillness which held the fallen flowers of the syringa there also.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia] Reference

How he would like to lead her through the box maze and then sit beside her on the marble bench under the syringa bushes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference

It was a hot June morning, and the heavy scent of syringa came in through the high uncurtained windows of the lecture-hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life at High Tide] Reference

The little plant of which she spoke, the climbing syringa, which was given to her as a special favour by the man in charge of the Borda.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference

He walked along, not thinking of that, nor seeing the roses and syringa blossoms which gave him a sweet breath out of some of the gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Red Wallflower] Reference

Jeff, who was sitting outside on a bench under the syringa bushes, could hear her querulous drawl and Judith's quick, good-natured replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference

A syringa shrub partially concealed him and his umbrella, and he could not forbear pausing a moment to note what a pretty picture she made.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Sombre Rivals] Reference

Two of them, freely and frankly, on to the now deserted play-ground, admitting the fragrance of lime and syringa and lilac, and other odors of a mixed quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian] Reference

A woman came in and stood quietly in front of the two men, the wafted air carrying from her clear, smooth skin a faint but unmistakable fragrance of Idaho mountain syringa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of Space] Reference