There isn't the slightest chance, not one in a million, that a harebell will spring up in a Roman garden, and be burned to a crisp by sunlight that just makes an oleander feel good and comfortable.
But everybody that has any sense knows that an oleander would freeze and starve to death if you planted it up near a glacier.
An Alpine harebell is as different from an oleander as I am from a natural-born artist.
I presented my son with two tortoises and a little green bird, a clarine, which can be kept on the oleander terrace, though he had asked for a monkey and a crocodile.
This last is now hanging out on the little oleander terrace to be sunned and aired, and the three coins have been scrubbed.
Then he answered: "In Oleander Point, Long Island, in the cottage of Dr.
He must have inhaled that odor thousands of times when he was flirting with pretty girls the summer he spent at Oleander Point with Dr.
First favor: Concentrate your mind on how you used to spend your bright, sunshiny days in Oleander Point and your beautiful moonlight nights.
One's eye caught near and far the pink cloud of the oleander and the red blaze of the pomegranate blossom.
They found a table on the terrace in a retired corner, surrounded with flowering cactus plants and drooping mimosa, and overhung by a giant oleander tree.
The perfume of mimosa and roses and oleander came to him in long waves, subtle and yet invigorating.
An oleander bush with its willow foliage tossed trusses of almond-scented, pink blossom, at the entrance of the yard.
A pair of little flycatchers slipped into their roosting place in the oleander bush at the entrance, with complaining chirrups at having been kept up so late by the invasion of the yard.
The oleander bush and gourd supplied the flowers required for the guests; and as for the feast, no pretence was needed.
They spent a couple of days on the Lake of Como, at a hotel with white porticoes smothered in oleander and myrtle, and the terrace-steps leading down to little boats with striped awnings.
The inn, which is little more than a cottage, is beautifully situated on a slender promontory that runs into the lake, and is itself almost hidden by the foliage of orange and oleander trees that cover it.
Next we take to tears, and declare that we love that oleander as one of the family, and it breaks our heart to see it perish for want of care.
We tell him the oleanderwill be blighted by the frost, and he pays no heed.
Fragments of old china lurk in the discovered spaces underneath the denuded lilac bushes, and out by the oleander tub a cruel cat is worrying a large and discouraged rat.
That oleander tub reminds me of an ordeal that is ushered in with every change of season.
Foliage of palms, oleander and citrus is often infested by this reddish-black to black circular scale (Fig.
The sea-shore is a tangle of lilac and oleander and laurustinus and myrtle and lentisk and cytisus and geranium.
Then as the sun sank, the crags burned deeper with scarlet blushes as of blood, and with passionate bloom as of pomegranate or oleander flowers.
I will see thee at the Temple service: an oleander in thy bosom, I come to thee; a myrtle flower, thou comest to me.
He saw the oleander and the myrtle both entwined upon her bosom, and this he understood not.
I will raise this crimson oleander to my lips, and greet him with a smile.
Here and there the ground was covered with flowers of richest shades and sweetest fragrance, and great branches with clustering blossoms of crimson oleander and myrtle lay around.
Yellow iris stud the ground, and crimson and whiteoleander grow between.
No, no; I will tame those dark eyes to look into mine, and train those crimson, oleander lips to bear me rich kisses of love.
I descended the stairs with the oleander this morning, though the oleander got there a little more previously than I did.
It is with great difficulty that I write this entry in my diary, for this morning Abigail thought best for me to carry the oleander down into the cellar, as the nights have been growing colder of late.
I could squeeze along two years without the gladiola and the oleander in the large tub.
Parties desiring a good, secondhand oleander tub, with castors on it, will do well to give us a call before going elsewhere.
The oleanderis always just about to meet its engagements, but later on it peters out and fails to materialize.
II NICK Nick Hilliard snatched off his sombrero as he came swinging along the oleander path.
The Scot followed down a flight of steps, beneath blossoming oleander bushes, and found himself presently upon a narrow terrace-walk, divided from a neighbouring garden by a lattice of green-painted wood.
It just missed El Sarria and kindled to dusky purple a blossom of oleander that touched his cheek as he stooped.
Hedges of scarlet hibiscus flamed ten feet high, clusters of purple bougainvillea poured down from cottage-porches, while oleander in radiant bloom formed a hedge twenty feet high for as much as half a mile at a stretch.
Enrica stood by with downcast eyes--a spray of pink oleander swaying from the terrace-wall in the light breeze above her head, for background.
The oleander is poisonous to horses and other domestic animals, and is instinctively avoided by both game and cattle.
A foraging party cut and peeled someoleander branches to use as skewers in roasting meat over the camp-fires.
She had a ball of pink oleander flowers in her hands and white flowers in her hair.
Under the tree there were numbers of idols, and piles of oleander and jessamin wreaths, brought fresh that morning.
Oleander had actually caught her in his arms and was pouring forth a passionate declaration of love.
It is not Doctor Oleander who is the dastard, the villain, the abductor of weak women--it is I!
Oleander did as directed, and took a seat beside the lady.
Oleander and Hugh Ingelow in a state of frantic jealousy.
Doctor Oleander tells me you're insane; you tell me yourself you're not insane.
How could Mrs. Oleander be here when I left her, five minutes ago, half crazy with toothache?
I do want Doctor Oleander and Mr. Sardonyx to propose; and if they discover I've accepted the baronet, they won't.
Mrs. Oleander nodded over her knitting; Sally was drowsy over her dishes; Peter yawned audibly before the fire.
So Doctor Guy Oleander is going to propose, and Mollie Dane is to say 'yes' on the impulse of the moment, and Mamma Blanche is to make her stick to her word!
Before the kitchen clock struck nine, sleep had sealed the eyelids of Mrs. Oleander and her servants more tightly than they were ever sealed before.
Mrs. Oleander complained that it was weak; Sally said it must have boiled, it had such a nasty taste; but they drank it for all that.
Henry told Obejoyful how his grandfather was hung; and Obejoyful told Henry how he loved a girl in Ohio, named Oleander McTodd, and how he was going to send for her, and marry her as soon as he could raise the scads to bring her west.
About the day on which Oleander McTodd would naturally arrive at the ranche, Obejoyful was sent up on Stinking Water to round up a bunch of sheep that had escaped, and bring them back to the fold.
Oleander and hibiscus hedges ran on either side as far as the eye could see, and long brilliant flower-beds stretched away into gorgeous perspective.
Later as he passed through the gardens, a white oleanderblossom fell, and he picked it up and drew it through his coat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oleander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
