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  • Isobel, rose-crowned, pale against the heather, sat motionless for Louis as he sketched her with charcoal.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Isobel, rose-crowned, pale against the heather, sat motionless for Louis as he sketched her with charcoal.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Isobel, rose-crowned, pale against the heather, sat motionless for Louis as he sketched her with charcoal.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • I did not understand the words, but there was something in the sound of the adventurer's voice which conjured up a moonlit garden, a rose-crowned gate swinging on one hinge, a girl on one side and a fool on the other.

    Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

  • Her curious glance traveled slowly from Arlee's flushed and lovely face, under the rose-crowned hat, down over the filmy white gown and white-gloved hands clasping an ivory card case, to the small, white-shod feet and silken ankles.

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Susan felt strangely older than Anna to-day; she thought of that other day when she and Billy had gone up to the big woods; she remembered the odor of roses and acacia, the fragrance of her gown, the stiffness of her rose-crowned hat.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Julia -- all pins and needles -- was presently jerked up into a glare of lights, and tied into the rose-crowned bonnet, and buttoned into the velvet coat again.

    The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • A strange stillness surrounded her -- as though she were separated by a circle of silence from the dancers beyond the rose-crowned walls of the summer-house -- and into this stillness there passed, like an invisible current, the very essence of womanhood.

    Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • The dancers among whom she whirled, the anxious mothers sitting uneasily on chairs under the poplars, the flowering shrubs, the rose-crowned summer-house, the yellow lanterns with the clouds of white moths circling around them -- all these things had turned suddenly to shadows; and through a phantom garden, the one living figure moved beside an empty shape, which was Abby.

    Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • On the Goodes 'lawn lanterns bloomed, like yellow flowers among the branches of poplar trees, and beneath them Mrs. Goode and Abby -- a loud, handsome girl, with a coarsened complexion and a "sporting" manner -- received their guests and waved them on to a dancing platform which had been raised between a rose-crowned summer-house and the old brick wall at the foot of the garden.

    Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

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