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Example sentences for "wistaria"

Lexicographically close words:
wisse; wissen; wissenschaftliche; wissenschaftlichen; wist; wiste; wisteria; wistful; wistfully; wistfulness
  1. Your wistaria wants pruning sadly," she said.

  2. Mrs. Poppit transferred her gaze to the wistaria that grew over the steps up to the garden-room.

  3. The wistaria is all torn away where she clutched at it to save herself.

  4. The wistaria to which she had clung was broken away in several spots, a whole spray of it fluttered loose from the wall.

  5. Chapter 14 That first week the wistaria began to fade, and the flowers of the Judas-tree and peach-trees fell off and carpeted the ground with rose-colour.

  6. The garden in which these severely military operations took place still surrounds the same windows, gay with wistaria and roses.

  7. Erika did not reply; she looked down at a spray of wistaria he had plucked for her as she took leave of him.

  8. About six o'clock that afternoon old Jolyon returned from Wistaria Avenue, where now almost every day he spent some hours, and asked if his grand-daughter were upstairs.

  9. He had not reached Hamilton Terrace before he changed his mind, and hailing a cab, gave the driver an address in Wistaria Avenue.

  10. He had kept the hansom, and on coming out, gave the driver the address--3, Wistaria Avenue.

  11. About it a number of ring-doves and snow-white pigeons were perched or flying; and beyond the lawn he could see the dark veranda of a low house, covered by wistaria just going out of flower.

  12. Wistaria was already about its walls--the new look had gone.

  13. Wistaria and early roses, clustering in, had but the ghost of color on their blossoms.

  14. Before reaching Wistaria Avenue he removed old Jolyon's letter from his pocket, and tearing it carefully into tiny pieces, scattered them in the dust of the road.

  15. The house of old Mrs. Stanley, now almost completely buried under its unpruned wistaria vine, she never entered.

  16. Every big farmhouse, every tiny cottage was curtained with wistaria and heavy-headed roses.

  17. She was breathing rather hurriedly as if she had been running, and her neck was so white that the shadow of her sunlit wistaria threw a faint lilac stain on the warm, fine grain of her skin.

  18. This afternoon, in her silk muslin of the same shade as the trail of wistaria tucked in where the frills crossed over her breast, she might have gone astray out of the seventeenth century.

  19. Her close, dark braids showed black against the fragrant wistaria vines and her eyes were deep and velvety in the soft light.

  20. For vagabonds in April the poppies riot scarlet by the white road's edge, and the last of the hawthorn lingers like melting snow, and over the garden walls the purple veils of the wistaria drift like twilight mist.

  21. Looking down the garden, he saw them, sitting under a pergola, half-veiled by the purple drifts of the wistaria that hung in trails between them and him.

  22. We will go on to the wistaria arbour and wait for you.

  23. How he did whimper when I had to drag him away from you that day in the wistaria arbour at Central Park.

  24. We stopped in the wistaria arbour for more than an hour, as I knew by my bracelet watch, when Sally said suddenly we must go--though I hadn't dreamed till then that we had been half as long.

  25. You might have made tea yourself," he suggested, drawing a branch of the wistaria to shade his face more completely.

  26. Through the night air pierced the crescendo wail of a horn, startling the insect choirs into silence and waking a sleepy bird in the wistaria vines.

  27. The name of the house was really Wistaria Lodge; but Percy had recommended the shorter form as less of a committal.

  28. I used to be clever once; twenty years ago I could have told you what Wistaria meant.

  29. Well, missy, if Miss Augusta has dropped her bangle into the wistaria it can wait till to-night.

  30. She has dropped a bracelet--a gold bangle--into the wistaria which grows up to her window.

  31. Neither Nora nor Kitty would have thought anything of descending to the ground and climbing up again by the thick arm of the wistaria which ran all round this part of the house.

  32. A robin was perched near the little Japanese tea house they had all enjoyed so much, with its wistaria vines and stone lantern.

  33. He lived in a cave on Katsuragi Mount for forty years, wore garments made of wistaria bark, and ate only pine leaves steeped in spring water.

  34. Twenty-five years had passed since first he bowed his head beneath the wistaria that still crowned the Pension doorway.

  35. On the stroke of two he went downstairs again and disappeared into the cramped and stuffy bureau, whose window on the street was framed by the hanging wistaria blossoms; and at eight o'clock his day of labour ended.

  36. And they went up the creaking wooden stairs to supper in the Wistaria Pension as naturally as though the years had lifted them behind the mountains of the past in a single bound-- twenty-five years ago.

  37. The orchards then hid the lower floors; he passed the tinkling fountain; to the left he saw the church and the old Pension, the wistaria blossoms falling down its walls in a cascade of beauty.

  38. The perfume of the wistaria outside the open window came in sweetly, yet could not lighten the air of heavy gloom that clothed her like a garment.

  39. There was a perfume of flowers, of lilacs and wistaria in the air, as if the whole garden had slipped in by the back door and was unable to find its way out again.

  40. There is a balcony with an old wistaria vine just outside the window.

  41. One thought he remembered that the North Inn was the place to go to; another that he had heard the Wistaria House specially commended.

  42. Into the midst of it we descended to a suspension bridge of twisted strands of the wistaria vine, ballasted at the ends with boulders piled from the river's bed.

  43. The birds were chirping sleepily to each other in the wistaria vine.

  44. The birds were singing in the wistaria vine that grew over the porch, and two doves were cooing on the old stone lantern that stood by the little lake.

  45. They have cherry festivals and wistaria festivals and chrysanthemum festivals when everybody goes to picnics and spends the whole day with the flowers.

  46. Out from between the marble columns of her doorway, out from under the twisted garland of wistaria murmurous with bees, down the curving steps, along the path to the crowded, curious sidewalk, she came.

  47. David, so abruptly deserted, stood for a full minute looking at the dark old house, where the wistaria looping above the pillared doorway was blossoming in wreaths of lavender and faint green.

  48. What pleasant greetings all the cousins must have given each other; I am sure the Wistaria was glad to see the Lilac, and the Fortune's Yellow Rose was duly respectful to his old cousin, the thorny yellow Scotch Rose.

  49. This Wistaria is not growing in an over-favorable locality, for winter winds are bleak on the southern shores of Long Island; but I know no rival of its beauty in far warmer and more sheltered sites.

  50. The white Chinese Wistaria is regarded as the most important of his collections.

  51. Thus the Chinese White Wistaria is similar in shape of blossom to the Scotch Laburnum, though a far more elegant, more lavish flower; but the Laburnum is the loved one.

  52. For instance, a groundwork of Weeping Ash could soon be trained into shape, and Wistaria would be best to grow all over and through it.

  53. It is only within the past few years that the Wistaria has been used to any extent for flowering in this way, but now it is universally admired.

  54. Wistaria planted so freely against houses and pergolas, and for flowering under glass the variety alba may be mentioned; it is more satisfactory than in the open garden.

  55. It is always a pleasure in Wistaria time to visit the Royal Gardens, Kew, and see the exquisitely coloured trails of flowers on this species; these trails measure between 2 and 3 feet in length.

  56. Wistaria which gives so much beauty to the gardens in Japan.

  57. Wistaria time is a pleasant season of the year.

  58. The Chinese White Wistaria was introduced by Mr. Fortune, and is regarded as a great acquisition.

  59. Mr. Vick evidently does not deem this method an improvement on the natural graceful climber, for it reminds him of an anecdote which he thus relates in reply to an inquirer respecting the Wistaria as a standard.

  60. In this country where the Wistaria is "at home," it may be raised in tree-shape in the open ground without expense, save the necessary care in pinching in and shaping.

  61. Very beautiful among the hard-wooded Climbers, is the Chinese Wistaria when in bloom.

  62. A novelty has been offered to the horticultural public of London this spring (1880), in the shape of standard trees of Wistaria Sinensis, raised in tubs, having heads five or six feet in diameter and covered with clusters of bloom.

  63. If the Chinese Wistaria had been a tree, and some one could have induced it to climb and cover our porches and arbors and old trees and buildings, what a grand improvement it would have been.

  64. The plant is perfectly hardy, resembling Wistaria Sinensis, so well known as one of our best climbing plants.


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