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Marcel Proust knew this--"the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom" resurrected a whole town from his memories of years before.
Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008
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Marcel Proust knew this--"the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom" resurrected a whole town from his memories of years before.
Proust effect doyle 2008
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The summer evening is slowly melting into night, the warm air is fragrant of mignonette and lime-blossom; and at the window, leaning on her arm, her head bent on her shoulder, sits a young girl, and silently, intently gazes into the sky, as though looking for new stars to come out.
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The owl hooted, the red climbing roses seemed to deepen in colour, there came a scent of lime-blossom.
To Let 2004
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Come on, sit down and I'll make you a lime-blossom tea. '
The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001
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Herr Carovius went home and made a lime-blossom tea; such a tea had often helped him when he had not felt well.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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The owl hooted, the red climbing roses seemed to deepen in colour, there came a scent of lime-blossom.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900
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The owl hooted, the red climbing roses seemed to deepen in colour, there came a scent of lime-blossom.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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The owl hooted, the red climbing roses seemed to deepen in colour, there came a scent of lime-blossom.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900
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After waiting a minute, I would go in and kiss her; Françoise would be making her tea; or, if my aunt were feeling 'upset,' she would ask instead for her 'tisane,' and it would be my duty to shake out of the chemist's little package on to a plate the amount of lime-blossom required for infusion in boiling water.
Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896
knitandpurl commented on the word lime-blossom
"And as soon as I had recognised the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me (and though I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy) immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set to attach itself to the little pavilion opening on to the garden ..."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 51 of the Vintage International paperback edition
December 24, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word lime-blossom
"Old friends of M. and Mme Guermantes came in to see them after dinner, 'with the tooth-picks' as Mme Swann would have said, without being expected, and took in winter a cup of lime-blossom tea in the lighted warmth of the great drawing-room, in summer a glass of orangeade in the darkness of the little rectangular strip of garden outside."
--The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 703of the Modern Library paperback edition
September 11, 2008