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  • The picture at the top that you see before you when you first click on this post, is a farm scene in apple blossom time, surrounded by an enlarged apple-blossom in the front, as if you were looking through a pane.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Once you see the blueberry growing on its short bushes and witness the bell-shaped flowers in their shades of green and apple-blossom pink, it is difficult not to fall in love.

    Tender delights Nigel Slater 2010

  • The picture at the top that you see before you when you first click on this post, is a farm scene in apple blossom time, surrounded by an enlarged apple-blossom in the front, as if you were looking through a pane.

    The Humble Art of the Victorian Period 2009

  • I love your pinecone and apple-blossom arrangement!

    Rejoice With Those Who Rejoice 2008

  • English haze, the English grass; the eggs and bacon; the slow good humour, the moderation and the pluck; the smell of rain; the apple-blossom, the heather, and the sea.

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • Her complexion was luminous, like that of apple-blossom through which the light falls, and I remember her standing that first day by a great heap of such blossoms in the window.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Her complexion was luminous, like that of apple-blossom through which the light falls, and I remember her standing that first day by a great heap of such blossoms in the window.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Her complexion was luminous, like that of apple-blossom through which the light falls, and I remember her standing that first day by a great heap of such blossoms in the window.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Her complexion was luminous, like that of apple-blossom through which the light falls, and I remember her standing that first day by a great heap of such blossoms in the window.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Her eyes shone out as brightly as the stars in heaven, and her cheeks bloomed a soft red like apple-blossom.

    Household Tales 2003

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