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Example sentences for "syringa"

Lexicographically close words:
syphons; syre; syren; syrens; syriaca; syringas; syringe; syringed; syringes; syringing
  1. The lace handkerchief yard and the syringa bushes and the shingled roof above them sank out of her life.

  2. The horse, that had about his arching neck a great wreath of syringa and roses, pranced on to the colours and stopped.

  3. There was a small house, half hidden behind two huge syringa bushes.

  4. She would sit with me where I was now sitting alone, under the syringa trees, and revel in the perfume.

  5. In spring-time those sweet syringa blossoms would surround us; she loved their scent better than any other.

  6. To a lesser extent it abided over and around the next morning, the west porch, the syringa alley.

  7. They left the gate and again pursued the syringa alley.

  8. The next morning William laid a bunch of syringa upon Miss Drew's desk.

  9. No, there ain't any syringa in this 'ere garding.

  10. I only want to pick some of that syringa behind you, it is so sweet.

  11. They went at Lost Lady's like Severn at flood, With an urging of horses and a squelching of mud; By the hot flanks of horses the toppings were bruised, And Syringa the manless swerved right and refused.

  12. Gavotte and The Ghost and the brown Counter Vair, Followed him close with Syringa the mare, And the roan horse Red Ember who went like a hare, And Forward-Ho bolting, though his rider did swear.

  13. The tall double stocks were breathing heavily in the dark garden; the delicate sweetness of the syringa moved as if on tip-toe towards the windows; but it was the aching smell of lilies that kept Mildred awake.

  14. And as she got out of bed the sweetness of the syringa mingled with the sweetness of her body.

  15. The shrubs were old and huge, forming pleasant nooks for benches--now a couple of syringa bushes meeting overhead, now lilacs, white and purple extending an invitation to lovers to come sit on the bench.

  16. How he would like to lead her through the box maze and then sit beside her on the marble bench under the syringa bushes!

  17. Jeff, who was sitting outside on a bench under the syringa bushes, could hear her querulous drawl and Judith's quick, good-natured replies.

  18. There was nothing to warn--no thunder in the sky, no little mother-bird on the syringa bush.

  19. Between the two, a little higher than their heads, tilted a motherly bird on a syringa twig.

  20. It was commonly called Syringa vulgaris azurea plena, and seems to have been very rare and without real ornamental value.

  21. And that wet sunset, and the walk upon the terrace, that leave-taking, the brushing of the syringa across his mouth!

  22. A spray of syringa brushed across his face as he walked on down the tangled path.

  23. Two of them, freely and frankly, on to the now deserted play-ground, admitting the fragrance of lime and syringa and lilac, and other odors of a mixed quality.

  24. There is a broken board in the fence which the syringa partly hides.

  25. The road between barracks and canteen passes the angle of the whitewashed fence; a wild syringa bush grows on the hospital side, and thrusts its blossoms over the wall.

  26. My ideas were rather indefinite as I examined the syringa bush after the most approved fashion, and discovered no more than that somebody had broken it by dropping from above, and had gone away.

  27. The window was flung wide, and beneath at the foot of the wall a syringa bush lay broken.

  28. Syringa is also a common name for the mock-orange Philadelphus coronarius (nat.

  29. The dusk deepened; the odour of honeysuckle and syringa grew heavier, and white moths sailed by on their way to the lighted windows.

  30. I will make you a wreath of syringa like stars.

  31. When she woke, the bright noon sunshine had given place to a dusky light, which made the syringa recess very dark.

  32. The syringa recess had been her favorite "secret" ever since she discovered it, nearly two years before.

  33. The old syringa at the foot of the Wade's lawn was rather a tree than a bush.

  34. A big bumble-bee came sailing through the air like a wind-blown drum, and stopped for a minute to sip at a syringa blossom.

  35. She led the way to the front west porch, where the syringa shoots made a little hedge around it and a tall fir tree made good perching places beside it.

  36. The young Phoebe made a wild dash, missed his Fly, and came back to the syringa bush whimpering.

  37. This is how it happened that, day after day, a plump and strong young Phoebe sat on a branch of the syringa bush and let his tired mother feed him.

  38. A shower of syringa blossoms suddenly rained down upon the Finanzrath, who was seated near the open door leading to the garden, and a charming young girl appeared upon the threshold.

  39. The Finanzrath shook off the syringa blossoms, and, leaning back in his chair, contemplated his sister with increasing satisfaction.

  40. I saw you arrive, and by way of welcome plucked a whole apronful of syringa flowers to surprise you after a sisterly fashion, and then crept up to the door on tiptoe.

  41. Miss Hematite Kipley, aetat seventeen, coming into the room with a fragrant bowl of syringa blossoms, compared it favorably with any picture her beloved romancers had been able to conjure up.

  42. The big horse-chestnut tree at the corner of the syringa hedge was only a darker blot against the surrounding dark, and the slope of faintly lit street on the other side of the hedge looked far away, with the dark sweep of lawn between.

  43. The Randalls' lawn was hedged with a fringe of lilac and syringa bushes, with one great, spreading horse-chestnut tree at the corner.

  44. Among the bushy lilacs Syringa ligustrina, Syringa Chinensis, Syringa josikea and Syringa villosa all bloomed fully.

  45. This last variety has pink flowers and is a very choice variety of Syringa vulgaria.


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