flower-beds

Seeing, however, that you were a visitor by the front entrance, you could not answer the beckonings of the wilderness-garden, but must follow the windings of the avenue, on and on, until the wild growth on either side gave place to spreading lawns and trim flower-beds, the pine-trees ended, and you came round a kind of corner formed by an immense bush of scarlet bougainvillea, and so found the house smiling a welcome.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

The lawn and flower-beds had become a cemetery in recent weeks.

Excerpt: A Visible Darkness by Michael Gregorio 2009

There was the Formal Garden, with its mathematically precise flower-beds and its carefully sculpted topiary trees in geometric shapes.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

The Emperor's Tin Castle The grounds around Nick Chopper's new house were laid out in pretty flower-beds, with fountains of crystal water and statues of tin representing the Emperor's personal friends.

Love Letters 2010

After the war, too weak to return to Germany, she learned from former students that her old school in Berlin, built in 1914 according to her own plans with a flat roof and a spacious roof garden, had survived the Allied bombardments: bombs that would definitely have destroyed the building had become lodged in the flower-beds of her beloved roof-garden and in conseqence had failed to explode.

Alice Salomon. 2009

Do you think it is easy to hide your guilt from the nice lady down the street who used to babysit you when you were little, after you have driven through her flower-beds coming home drunk the other night?

Small town thoughts shipping troll 2009

Do you think it is easy to hide your guilt from the nice lady down the street who used to babysit you when you were little, after you have driven through her flower-beds coming home drunk the other night?

Archive 2009-03-01 shipping troll 2009

On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds.

Les Miserables 2008

The quincunxes and flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight.

Les Miserables 2008

The flower-beds accepted the legitimate royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which emanates from whiteness.

Les Miserables 2008