thymy

Often at such conjunctures as these, when the futility of her great undertaking was more than usually manifest, did Ethelberta long like a tired child for the conclusion of the whole matter; when her work should be over, and the evening come; when she might draw her boat upon the shore, and in some thymy nook await eternal night with a placid mind.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Away! ours is the palm of roast; whether of the crisp mutton that crops the thymy herbage of our downs, or the noble ox who revels on lush

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

Leaving Anaxis to smell about, I went walking on the thymy hillsides or through the olive groves, hearing for chorus the cicadas and mountain birds, while I ran over this speech or that.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

To do this we must visit them in their own home, which we shall find in some pine-wood, like the "pincushion-wood," or in some grassy thymy spot, covered with little green tufts.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Or, when we eat of the fragrant honey, we do not quarrel with the thymy bees because they have blended for us the sweets of Hybla.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Neither drew free breath again till they were out of the house, and out of the garden, and out of the castle, and on the wide, thymy downs, with the blue sky above, where the skylarks sang, and there was the sweet, fresh scent of the seaweed and the bean-fields.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

And as on the yellowy white of the vellum book-cover, so here on the thymy grass of the knoll it shone golden.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

The place looked comfortable enough -- a small, unpainted, two-room affair, with a lean-to at the back for a kitchen, a porch added only the preceding spring, so that milord might have a view of the thymy valley below, with its green fields and distant hills, while he smoked and meditated.

Ida Hauchawout 1923

I remembered that; but I remembered, too, how white and round Jane's chin had looked as it pressed against the thymy turf of the cliff where we lay above the sea.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

And the sapphire sky and thymy plains of thy own sweet Sicily;

Theocritus 1895