lilac-tree

And yet it is a beautiful garden to wander in now and then; one stumbles over lovely broken faces, and here and there a flower blooms and the nightingale sings in the lilac-tree.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

And I would go and sit down beside the pump and its trough, ornamented here and there, like a gothic font, with a salamander, which modelled upon a background of crumbling stone the quick relief of its slender, allegorical body; on the bench without a back, in the shade of a lilac-tree, in that little corner of the garden which communicated, by a service door, with the Rue du

Swann's Way 2003

It was a new variety ot Mme. Swann that was thus obtained, growing there by her side like a white lilac-tree beside a purple.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

We all peered out of the window, but there was not a lilac-tree for miles.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

"That Mr. Hursley's plate is buried in the garden by the lilac-tree; that you have received a thousand pounds belonging to the man you tried to poison; that you netted four hundred and fifty pounds by the plate stolen at Salisbury; that you dexterously contrived, to slip the sulphuric acid into the tea unseen by Henry Rogers's wife."

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Then he had gone down with Joan, and before dinner they had planned a new position for the sweet pea hedge, taking it off the wall and putting it between the garage and the lilac-tree.

What Happened to the Corbetts Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1939

Then he had gone down with Joan, and before dinner they had planned a new position for the sweet pea hedge, taking it off the wall and putting it between the garage and the lilac-tree.

What Happened to the Corbetts Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1939

Her mocking-bird, excited by the sunlight, was singing in his big gilt cage, and a white lilac-tree that had come that morning was giving out its faint sweetness in the warm room.

Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

Walking across the yard, passing a snowdrift by the lilac-tree, he went into the cowhouse.

Chapter XXVI. Part I 1917

They went past the lilac-tree, whose bronze leaf-buds were coming unfastened.

Sons and Lovers 1913