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- noun Alternative spelling of
rose garden .
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Examples
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One short-term wheeze is that the day after the May elections and referendum – whoever has won – Cameron and Nick Clegg will do a joint press conference renewing their rose-garden vows.
David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies 2011
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Probably both the rose-garden concept and the book title contributed to the idea of referring to a collection of written prayers and devotions as a metaphorical rosary, such as the 1526 Rosary of Our Savyour Jesu or the 1533 Mystik sweet Rosary of the faytheful soule.
Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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When the roses were in bloom, these patches in the midst of the sand displayed such a profusion of blossoms, mingled with the aroma of the bayberry, that no Italian or other artificial rose-garden could equal them.
2007 August : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2 2007
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Probably both the rose-garden concept and the book title contributed to the idea of referring to a collection of written prayers and devotions as a metaphorical rosary, such as the 1526 Rosary of Our Savyour Jesu or the 1533 Mystik sweet Rosary of the faytheful soule.
The Name of the Rosary elena maria vidal 2009
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The most skilled gardeners in America were hired to design and lay out the immense park, containing an enclosure for deer, a rose-garden, an Italian vineyard, and other accessories.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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When the roses were in bloom, these patches in the midst of the sand displayed such a profusion of blossoms, mingled with the aroma of the bayberry, that no Italian or other artificial rose-garden could equal them.
Postcard : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Had not she her own children and affairs? her brood of fowls, her Sunday-school, her melon-beds, her rose-garden, her quarrel with the parson, etc., to attend to?
The Newcomes 2006
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And the final twist, revealed through a few bars of music whistled during a televised rose-garden interview with the President, is that even paranoids have real enemies.
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 Miss Snark 2006
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And the final twist, revealed through a few bars of music whistled during a televised rose-garden interview with the President, is that even paranoids have real enemies.
Archive 2006-12-17 Miss Snark 2006
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Hugh Hawbuck are introduced into the garden with brazen effrontery by Thomas, who says, ‘Please Sir Jan and my Lady to walk this year way: I KNOW Missus is in the rose-garden.’
The Book of Snobs 2006
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