They were usually covered with lilac or purple ground and profusely gilded.
It has a yellow, or brown, or green, or lilac ground.
What is there like to the laughing star, Far up from the lilac tree?
III What is there like to the cry of the bird That sings in its nest in the lilac tree?
If we examine a young shoot of lilac or buckeye, just as the leaves are expanding in the spring, a complete series of forms may be seen from the simple, external scales, through immediate forms, to the complete foliage leaf.
And when I was in New York, I bought the duckiest lilac linens and ginghams, and white aprons, frilly ones.
It reflected Madge, slim and gold, with a huge fan of lilac feathers.
And yet White Lilac proved a fortune to the relatives to whose charge she fell--a veritable good brownie, who brought luck wherever she went.
Then he saw that the ambulance was covered with sprigs of lilac and little yellow field flowers.
The white or lilac blossoms of the convolvuluslike Thunbergia, and other Acanthaceae were the predominant features of the shrubby vegetation, and very handsome.
But when Maurice had gone, and she had dropped the scattered sprays of lilac out of the window on his head, she clasped her hands at the back of her neck, and dropped a curtsy to herself in the locking-glass.
It was two o'clock on a cloudless afternoon, and so warm that the budding lilac in squares and gardens began to give out fragrance.
He records in his letters the joy of the thought that at that time "both the lilac and the laburnum will be blooming in the gardens.
It was all made of shells, blue and green and pink and lilac and white, shading into each other till you could not tell where one colour ended and the other began.
Don't be abrupt about it; but just take a look at that lilac copse on the crest of the hill.
The lilacbush shook a little, and Gansett Jim came forth.
A fire of cedarwood logs glowed on the tiled hearth, and a great bunch of lilac stood in a copper bowl upon a small mahogany table which was placed between two doors which faced the one leading to Mrs. Admaston's bedroom.
You will leave with me that remarkably pretty lilac muslin you appeared in yesterday--and the sun-bonnet.
Mrs. Robinson, hurrying in with an armful of lilac orchids, was overjoyed.
You may now take back with you the lilac gown and the sun-bonnet.
In the ditches along the highway one sees lilac with their white andlilac flowers.
Within a minute, he was down both the flowered terraces and out of sight behind the lilac bush.
In a nook where lilac and syringa overshadowed them and water glinted between lawns and glades, they sat discreetly side by side, and she permitted him to hold her hand.
All she's got to do is to go round that lilac bush and she might do anything.
There she sat, drinking her bowl of tea out under the lilac bushes.
I ain't hurt," said a voice from the lilac bushes.
The lilac would be better placed in a dark shed heated to about 70 deg.
A pretty rock plant with dense tufts of leaves and bluish-lilac flowers.
How often has he wheeled himself around the walk by the lilac bush?
It seemed that Mr. O'Neill at that minute was not digging up the lilac bush.
Your father's out pulling up the floor-boards in the barn and Mr. O'Neill's digging up the lilac bush for the third time.
He would have hidden pirates' gold, he had said, under the biggest apple-tree in the orchard, under the lilac bush or .
He told her of the fairy mill, of the old man's gloating pride in the word miser, of All Souls' Eve and Adam Craig's hints about the apple tree and the lilac bush.
A world of lilac and dogwood and a few late apple blossoms clinging bravely through the storm to sunshine.
Another gust of warm, sweet wind, another shower of lilac stars beside a well, another lane and he would have to paint or go mad.
The smell of wet lilacsweeping in from a bush beneath his window made him think somehow of Joan.
A branch of lilac was just outside the window, and spread its delicious perfume through the room, decidedly more pleasant than the fumes of tobacco smoke which had filled it a minute before.
In the spring when the lilac bushes add their brilliant colour to the russet brown tiles and soft creams of the stone-work, there are pictures on every side.
She put on her second best bonnet, trimmed with lilac flowers instead of feathers, the scoop filled with blonde and mull, and tied under the chin with lilac ribbons.
O, Grandma, am I going to be like my Lilac Lady after all?
Hicks promised to help us plant some flowers on our Lilac Lady's grave.
It was her Lilac Lady, now sleeping under the sod of the wind-kissed hillside, and Aunt Pen was her messenger.
Sometimes I get in an awful stew about having to sit in a chair day after day, but then I 'member what my Lilac Lady wrote, and I try to be good again.
It was your merry voice, your gay laughter, your joyous nature that cheered your Lilac Lady.
They told me I'd be well so's I could plant the pansies on my Lilac Lady's grave, seeing as Allee had to set out all the vi'lets without any of my help.
She will suffer as her Lilac Lady suffered and go as she went.
Must she lie there all the rest of her life like the Lilac Lady and Sadie Wenzell until the angels come and get her?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lilac" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
