garden-bed

But still, it acts only as a garden-bed for the green accord of clary sage and galbanum which leads the theme of Vent Vert.

Archive 2006-03-01 Ayala Sender 2006

Under the sun-soaked wall ran a narrow strip of garden-bed full of mignonette and pansies, and from the bees came a low hum in which all other sounds were set — the mooing of a cow deprived of her calf, the calling of a cuckoo from an elm-tree at the bottom of the meadow.

In Chancery 2004

Then they walked round a garden-bed, and went to sit down near the terrace on the kerb-stone of the wall.

Madame Bovary 2003

Her first inclination had been to empty her bucket on the garden-bed, let down her skirts, tie on her bonnet and bang the gate behind her.

Ultima Thule 2003

The humblest New-England cottage has its climbing flowers at the door-post, or its garden-bed in front; but how quickly would these wither, if the neat, brisk house-mistress owned her husband in common with Mrs. Deacon Pratt next door!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

These are afterward carefully plowed in; the soil, fertilized still further, if need be, is harrowed and prepared as though for a garden-bed, and the small brown seed sown, from which is to spring the most widely-used of man's useless luxuries.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

He led his father straight to the garden-bed, whereon in large letters, in lines of soft green, was written: --

Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

This garden-bed he purposely prepared close to a gooseberry-walk.

Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

This garden-bed he purposely prepared close to a gooseberry-walk.

Good Stories for Great Holidays 1914

He led his father straight to the garden-bed, whereon in large letters, in lines of soft green, was written: --

Good Stories for Great Holidays 1914