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Example sentences for "shrubberies"

Lexicographically close words:
shrouding; shrouds; shrowd; shrowded; shrub; shrubbery; shrubby; shrubs; shrug; shrugged
  1. I should probably have shrubberies and gardens like them some day; so that weeping was the more foolish.

  2. I had taken to weeping all alone in my pretty room, which looked out on shrubberies and gardens.

  3. Jam was in the long straight lines which we were told represented strawberries, and in the shrubberies of currant.

  4. Whilst I was advancing with full speed, the sun-beams began to shoot athwart the mountains, the plains to light up by degrees, and their shrubberies of myrtle to glisten with dew-drops.

  5. Next time you feel an impulse to hide in shrubberies and take moonlight walks through damp woods, perhaps you will listen to me.

  6. Tim loudly, and at the same moment a huge blackbird flew out of the shrubberies behind them, and flashed across the open space toward the orchard on the other side.

  7. An owl in the barn beyond the stables heard the call and took it up, and told it to some swallows fast asleep below the eaves, who woke with sudden chattering and mentioned it to a robin in the laurel shrubberies below.

  8. It was past midnight when the Tempest carriage drove through the dark rhododendron shrubberies up to the old Tudor porch.

  9. They walked through shrubberies that would have seemed a pathless wilderness to a stranger, but every turn in which was familiar to these two.

  10. Visions of ghastly deaths rose before me, and I was just about to have the lake dragged and the shrubberies swept.

  11. She lets him lead her down the stone steps that lead to the shrubberies outside, and from thence to the gardens.

  12. It is a wild day, though warm and sweet, and the wind outside is tearing madly over lawn and shrubberies into the wood beyond.

  13. We wandered through beautiful shrubberies of cypress-trees and olives, and never yet had I beheld so rich a luxuriance of vegetation.

  14. The old man gazed upon the gardens, and vacant parterres; upon the shrubberies of evergreen, and upon the leafless plants beside them; and a sad and solemn spirit came upon him as he looked.

  15. As she comes to the gravel walk that leads from the shrubberies to the sweep before the hall door, she encounters the disgraced Ridgway, doing something or other to one of the shrubs that has come to grief during the late bad weather.

  16. Each dark-green leaf in the long shrubberies bears its own sparkling burden.

  17. The Greenfinch is much more common, but here again we remark a change of habitat with the season, the birds quitting the open fields for shrubberies and gardens as the breeding season approaches.

  18. We invariably remarked that Bullfinches retired to the cover of shrubberies and gardens to breed.

  19. It is also fond of the large shrubberies and copses, especially such as adjoin parks and well-timbered farm lands.

  20. I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable; and I should recommend Miss Elliot to be on her guard with respect to her flower garden.

  21. The gardens and shrubberies would be kept in almost as high order as they are now.

  22. In shrubberies and large flower-plots, verges of grass-turf, from 1 to 3 ft.

  23. Dig and dress such flower borders and shrubberies as may now be cleared of annuals and the stems of herbaceous plants.

  24. But it was with sad hearts that the unselfish seekers opened the long gate and went up the gravel drive between the rhododendrons and other shrubberies towards the house.

  25. It's only man that was made after His image, not shrubberies and things.

  26. Outside the blackbirds whistled in the shrubberies across the lawn.

  27. Thence, by permission, there is a charming walk towards Warrington, first along the old lane in front of the church, then through the grounds and shrubberies attached to Winwick Hall, after leaving which the path becomes public.

  28. The country is on either hand fertile and pleasantly wooded, and in many places embellished with handsome grounds, while gardens and shrubberies succeed one another so fast that the road seems completely edged with them.

  29. I and he were in the habit of walking round the shrubberies in the front of the College, indulging our tastes in fanciful conversation until the bell summoned us again to study.

  30. The Past that never dies swept down upon us from sky and Kentish countryside with the murmur of the night-breeze in the shrubberies below.

  31. A faint breath of air stirred in the laurel shrubberies below.

  32. Mr. Janney could once more walk in his own grounds without fear of reporters leaping on him from the shrubberies or emerging from behind statues and garden benches.

  33. Behind it the sun struck fire from the glass of long greenhouses, and the tops of garages, stables and out-buildings rose above concealing shrubberies and trellises draped with the pink mantle of the rambler.

  34. I could cry to think that I shall never again see the flowerbeds and walks and shrubberies of Bannisters.

  35. IX It was early and a clear dewy morning when Uther rode down alone from the palace by a narrow track that curled through the shrubberies clothing the palace hill.

  36. They were all three walking about together for an hour or two--first round the shrubberies of Hartfield, and afterwards in Highbury.

  37. I would have everything as complete as possible in the country, shrubberies and flower-gardens, and rustic seats innumerable: but it must all be done without my care.

  38. And when they had gone over the house, he promised himself moreover the pleasure of accompanying her into the shrubberies and garden.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrubberies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.