All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.
A minute afterwards the blinds were thrown open, and through the jessamine and clematis that overhung the window one could see the garden ornamented with lanterns, and the supper laid under the tent.
Downstairs the last roses of the west tossed a glow into the Cape Jessamine drawing-room.
The river curved like a scimitar, and the glare showed the turbulent edge of it and the swirling cross-current that was setting a tooth into the Cape Jessamine levee.
Cape Jessamine gives you welcome and says, ‘Be at home for these three days.
Down at Cape Jessamineundeniably there was happiness.
And how blessed to have Cape Jessamine to come to—” The time wore on toward late June.
Cary, I was riding by the ruined house, and a very beautiful woman came out of a cave in the hill and said she was your wife, and that she was making her home there, and would you come to Cape Jessamine when you could.
If Port Hudson falls and they come up the river, or Vicksburg and they come down it, Cape Jessaminewill be as others.
When I saw Cape Jessamine go down, I thought only ‘If I were there!
It might be workin’ in the cellar like under Cape Jessamine this very minute.
In the pallor of the dawn the house of Cape Jessamine rose before them.
And then at once she was at Cape Jessamine and the house was filled with people and there was dancing.
Indeed, Miss Jessamine never mentioned any one's age, or recalled the exact year in which anything had happened.
So Mrs. Johnson understood Miss Jessamine to say, but it appeared that she only said "Treaclestick!
Whereupon, Miss Jessamine sent a servant to the churchyard, who found Tony Johnson lying on a tomb-stone, very sick, and having ceased to entertain any hopes of his own recovery.
One summer's evening they were out late, and Miss Jessamine was becoming anxious, when Jackanapes presented himself with a ghastly face all besmirched with tears.
It was bad enough when the pickle of a large and respectable family cried for the Black Captain; when it came to the little Miss Jessamine crying for him, one felt that the sooner the French landed and had done with it the better.
He bends lower and lower, and Miss Jessamine calls to the Postman to request Lollo to be kind enough to stop, whilst she is fumbling for something which always hangs by her side, and has got entangled with her spectacles.
Miss Jessamine was just beginning to be distracted, when she smelt Jackanapes.
But next day, there was hurrying and skurrying and cackling at a very early hour, all about the white house with the black beams, where Miss Jessamine lived.
That settled the idea of using Jessamineand the buggy.
Jo Weatherhead, arriving one evening at his usual hour in Jessamine Cottage, was told by his old friend that she had had a letter from May, and that she meant to read him a portion of it.
We understand that Mrs. Dobbs has been looking after Jessamine Cottage; the little white house with a garden on the Gloucester Road," returned Miss Patty.
We might walk off towards that house on the right, near the shore; there is no danger of there being any jessamine there.
When Ruth had gone, Walter's interest in thejessamine vanished.
The search for the first jessamine was in those days one of the regular amusements of a St. Augustine winter.
For Mrs. Franklin had invited them all to lunch before the jessamine hunt, which had been appointed for that afternoon.
Mrs. Franklin, always interested in whatever was going on, had already disappeared, searching for the jessamine with the eagerness of a girl.
She has lived at Jessamine Bank,--educated the Dalzell girls.
Sweet branches of jessamine waved there in their season; and a beautiful magnolia had been planted or cherished there, and carefully kept in view of the house windows.
Eight-sixty-one Jessamine Street was a decayed mansion.
I want to go to 861 Jessamine Street," I said, and was about to step into the hack.
I thought of Jessamine Hynds in her brown silk frock, with the crucifix in her skeleton fingers and the earth fresh over her.
Then march'd he to mine Uncle and ask'd was Mistress Jessamine to oversee the Overseer, and call him hard Names for the whipping of a Troublesome Nigger?
It is Jessamine Hynds, lost Jessamine Hynds," said her kinsman of a later day, looking down upon the wreck of her with compassion.
I wanted Jessamine Hynds consigned to the grave from which she had been too long kept.
I sat on the steps while for Jessamine Hynds was fetched a length of canvas, a linen sheet, and a gray army blanket.
Otherwise, I do not feel like sharing my affairs with him; I do not want to drag Jessamine Hynds out of her grave to gratify his curiosity.
We folded her claws upon the empty breast in which had once pulsed the passionate heart of Jessamine Hynds, and spread her hair over what had been her face.
Hard upon the heels of these two disasters came a third, the case of Jessamine Hynds.
If Shooba hid them anywhere outside of that room, it must have been in some place that Jessamine herself knew and could get at if she wished; some particular place where nobody would dream of looking for them.
To save my life I couldn't speak of Jessamine Hynds then, nor talk coherently of that night's experience.
Beautiful Dog had brought to light that which Jessamine had died alone in the dark rather than reveal.
They did glow like the Devill his rainbow," Jessamine had said.
Back of the bench upon which she had seated herself a jessamine vine depended, filling the air with perfume; the night was warm and still and languorous; through the gloom she regarded him with curiosity.
An odor of myrtle and jessamine came from a garden beneath the outer terrace wall, and on either side of the manor rose wooded hills the lower slopes of which were laid out in vineyards and groves of citrus fruits.
The odor of the jessamine was heavy on the evening air, overpowering in its sweetness.
How the morning-glory blows, For the rose told me the secret, And the jessamine told the rose.
And the jessamine said at midnight, Ere the red cock woke and crew, That the fays of queen Titania Came there to bathe in the dew.
A white jessamine clambered up the stone pillar at the outer corner of the grille work.
Next day both mother and daughter were sitting in a jessamine bower in the garden, and they began to talk of the green monkey and his strange ways.
For, as against a snarling sea one steers, He battled vainly with the surging years; While everJessamine must watch and pine, Her vision bounded by the bleak sea-line.
Sweet Jessamine we called her; for she shone Like blossoms that in sun and shade have grown, Gathering from each alike a perfect white, Whose rich bloom breaks opaque through darkest night.
Beneath it Walt and Jessaminewere wed, Beneath it many a year has she lain dead.
She has a spray of jessamine in her hair, and her dress is put on with exquisite taste.
He wreathed the jessamine about the pony's neck, and Starr twined it about her hat and wore the orchids in her belt.
The moonbeams make fairy ladders of thejessamine vines.
The star-like jessamine and scarlet creepers gave to the walls of the old mansion a vivid glow of color; gold and purple enriched the gardens, heavy white lilies breathed faintest perfume.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jessamine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
