lilac-bush

One bright summer day I happened to go out of the playground after a noisy game of leap-frog, and walking into the garden I saw Pasinkov sitting on a bench under a high lilac-bush.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

From that day, from the very hour of our reading together in the garden, in the shade of the lilac-bush, I loved Pasinkov with my whole soul, I attached myself to him and fell completely under his sway.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

We were sitting together under the same lilac-bush; we were fond of that spot.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

We had now reached THE garden-chair; the directress sat down, and signed to me to sit by her, but I only rested my knee on the seat, and stood leaning my head and arm against the embowering branch of a huge laburnum, whose golden flowers, blent with the dusky green leaves of a lilac-bush, formed a mixed arch of shade and sunshine over the retreat.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

Later, when the moon was bright, I felt obliged to get out of bed and to lean out of the window, so that I might gaze into the garden, and at the lighted roof of the Shaposnikoff mansion, the straight tower of our parish church, and the dark shadows of the fence and the lilac-bush where they lay black upon the path.

Youth 2003

The windows looked out upon a whitewashed wall, about two arshins distant, and in the space between them there grew a small lilac-bush.

Youth 2003

He used to sit in a big cane-bottomed chair close to the fireplace, in winter, and under a big lilac-bush, at the north-east corner of the house, in summer.

Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

Many a day the two had spent together in nursing a sick or maimed chicken, or a half-frozen lamb, even a woodchuck that had got its leg broken in a trap was not an outcast to them; and as for beggars and tramps, not one passed "Gunn's," from June till October, that was not hailed by the old squire from under his lilac-bush, and fed by Hetty.

Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

The old fellow emerged from behind a lilac-bush with a guilty yet excited air.

Different Girls Various

Especially about the lilac-bush where my arbor now stands.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various