How To Use Lilac In A Sentence
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A dab of pale lilac or silver on the inner corner of the eye will make your eyes look whiter and brighter, giving an instant youth punch.
The Sun
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The lilac is nice, and I’d go for it in green as well.
Of Leaf Mould and Other Fashion Disasters « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
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Forget lilac, mauve and lavender.
Times, Sunday Times
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Backgrounds of boudoir pink, persimmon, lilac and aqua combine with the calligraphic grace of his fleshy figures in images of stylized elegance.
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Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall.
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My pulmonarias have been lovely this year, clumps of frosted leaves and pink and lilac flowers throughout the garden hiding the dying foliage of snowdrops and mingling with forget-me-nots.
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Thousands of tulips, pansies and forget-me-nots, together with venerable lilacs, wisteria, spireas and deutzias (many from the 1930s Annette Hoyt Flanders renovation) dominate the spring show of flowers.
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The younger bridesmaids wore pale lilac shimmer satin dresses with cream embroidered bodices, and carried pomanders of lilac and cream flowers.
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Q WHY has my white lilac got purple flowers this year?
The Sun
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I get the feeling that yellow and lilac are your favourite colours.
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Pulsatilla, the pasque flower, is a real stunner with showy lilac flowers and you'll find an excellent specimen at Glasnevin in the Sensory Garden.
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Soft colours such as lilac, rosy pink, light green and silver create a light-hearted effect.
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The fothergilla, dogwoods and lilac are near fully open.
Greetings From Fairegarden-April Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden
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Lilac wallpaper and oilcloth on pantry shelves say he was married, and scattered toys suggest children.
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Do some lilac pruning as you cut blooms for indoors.
The Sun
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She carried a large teardrop bouquet of cream roses, lilac freesias, fern, silvered bear grass, variegated ivy, gypsophila and eucalyptus.
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Spray trees purple, and mass purple and lilac flowers around the trunks.
Times, Sunday Times
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They come for the butterfly weed, lilacs, echinacea and anise hyssop, and especially for the white, lavender and pink butterfly bushes.
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The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
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Spring-flowering shrubs include such popular plants as forsythia, deutzia, lilac, viburnum, mock-orange and spirea.
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His eyes, once clear orbs of deep purple, were clouded and almost lilac in shade.
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Witch hazels may lack the flower power of forsythias or the head-over-heels perfume of lilacs, but they have one attribute that distinguishes them from other flowering shrubs: timing.
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The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart's-ease.
A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I
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Love letters would be in some flowery font like, ah, I dunno one of the script ones and it'd be in pretty pastel shades of pinks and lilacs.
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Applying mulch around the base of lilacs will help to keep weeds down.
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Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
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She wore a lavish lilac fishtail dress made especially for the occasion by her mum.
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Some are white, many in hues of lavender and lilac, pale mauves and deep purples, and a host of other colors.
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Those tall pillars of mingled lilac, mauve, purple and white flowers rising above square planters are spectacular, as are the matching hanging baskets here and there.
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The air was filled with the scent of lilac.
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Brown and aqua/turquoise are gorgeous together, as are brown and pale pink, cream and even a very pale lavendar or lilac.
Clothing in the Garden
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I went around the side of the house, dandelions dotting the grass, lilacs growing against the side wall.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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At home they had had some lilac bushes and a row of peonies; here were acres of greeneries, filled with flowers of gorgeous and unimaginable splendor, and rare plants from every part of the world.
Samuel the Seeker
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But when I go back to Aunt Jane's garden, I pass through the front yard and the back yard between rows of lilac, syringas, calycanthus, and honeysuckle; I open the rickety gate, and find myself in a genuine old-fashioned garden, the homely, inclusive spot that welcomed all growing things to its hospitable bounds, type of the days when there were no impassable barriers of gold and caste between man and his brother man.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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His latest collection, the first since his two-year hiatus, features colours like orange, white, black and lilac, using material like English twill, linen and soft leather.
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Not only that, but each June they put on a spectacular show as they burst into misty pale lilac bloom.
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The leaves of various kinds receive the water very differently: some are completely bathed, showing a smooth surface of varnished green from stem to point, like the lilac of the garden, for instance; on others, like the syringa, the fluid lies in flattened transparent drops, taking an emerald color from the leaf on which they rest; while the rose and the honeysuckle wear those spherical diamond-like drops, sung by poets and sipped by fairies.
Rural Hours
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If you are serious about lilacs, Lilacs: The Genus Syringa, is the one book that belongs on your bookshelf.
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Given the Pride In York campaign, the standards applied to Lilac Avenue should become the norm, not the exception.
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Bodywrappers offers lightweight crushed (panne) velvet jazz pants and, if your school doesn't specify ‘black only,’ you may want to check out the hand-dyed jazz pants in lilac, royal, and white swirls from Watercolours.
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Sure enough she was wearing her Sunday morning church dress, and all the way up on the landing, Troy could smell her mothers lilac perfume.
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As the car pulled away,the woman in the wheelchair waved and clutched the lilacs to her heart.
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It was an English garden in miniature, with potted orange trees, climbing roses, pink cabbage roses, larkspur, sweet-william, white lilac, and an ivied trellis railing running along the perimeter.
Exit the Actress
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Think lilac hair is a modern invention?
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
Kenny
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Each had its gay little garden, its shrubbery of lilac, holly, or laurustinus, and its creeper-covered porch.
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During anthesis, petals gradually lose their colour, becoming completely white or pale lilac by the end of anthesis.
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Grow clematis, alliums, pinks, ceanothus, lilacs and scabious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He opened his eyes and it wasn't dull flickering red at all, but grey-a cold sourceless silver, grey like snail trails on the lilac leaves-a springtime thing, that.
Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
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The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
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Curcuma is a tall reed-like tuber from Burma with luscious, lilac-pink tubular flowers that make a spectacular show.
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They are tall, ghostly looking pink or lilac flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or why not buy a purple, pink and lilac checked shirt that covers all the bases?
The Sun
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They wore lilac satin dresses with low crossover backs, diamanté detail and small trains.
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She was a beautiful lilac colour and her tail was luxurious, although not so luxurious as my own, and her long face was capped with two perfectly shaped ears.
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Colours range from the ever-popular blues to pretty pinks, lilacs and fresh whites.
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Her racks hang with pretty jewelled objects in smoky lilac, pink topaz and biscuit, contrasted with intense hues of sunshine, azure, coral and violet.
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Love letters would be in some flowery font like, ah, I dunno one of the script ones and it'd be in pretty pastel shades of pinks and lilacs.
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This one was of lilac silk with a wreath of white flowers for a headdress.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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I'd wear white lilac, of course.
Burning Bright
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These included lilacs, lindens, Virginia creeper, marigolds, sunflowers, honeysuckle, pinks, and daisies.
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Roger says he's used willow water for years to root azaleas, lilacs, summersweets and even roses.
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WHAT is the best way to remove lilac tree suckers?
The Sun
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There was a marsh marigold in it, with stems a quarter of an inch thick; and in the grass on the verge, but just beyond where the flood reached, grew the lilac-tinted cuckoo flowers, or cardamine.
Nature Near London
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These included lilacs, lindens, Virginia creeper, marigolds, sunflowers, honeysuckle, pinks, and daisies.
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Beside the playhouse was the "house in earnest," which has become a "belilaced cellar hole," and, behind it, a brook "Too lofty and original to rage.
'Hard to Understand, but Easy to Love'
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Blood spilled from out of their wounds and the mesmerizing water regained its former position and flooded the area where Lilac and Daikon rested.
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Lilac suddenly looked at Risaku and lunged her body into his strong arms.
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Some rivals of the purple lilac included the buttercup, goldenrod, Mayflower, wood lily, purple aster, apple blossom, and the evening primrose.
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_grandiflorus_ (A); pomegranate; white kerria, _Rhodotypos kerrioides; _ smoke tree, _Rhus Cotinus; _ rose locust, _Robinia hispida_ (A); spireas of several kinds; _Stuartia pentagyna_ (A); snowberry, _Symphoricarpos racemosus_ (A); lilacs of many kinds; viburnums of several species, including the European and Japanese snowballs; weigelas of the various kinds; chaste-tree, _Vitex Agnus-Castus; _ Thunberg's barberry; red pepper, _Capsicum frutescens; Plumbago Capensis; _ poinsettia.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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There was the lilac tree that shed dew on my shoulder, perhaps I could think about that?
The Times Literary Supplement
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The latter name (not to mention neem itself) has sometimes been confused with M. azedarach, a West Asian tree commonly known as Persian lilac, bakain, dharak, or chinaberry.
3 The Tree
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The price is so high because lilacs are out of season now.
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A pair of lilac colored eyes swam dizzily in his unsteady vision.
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It was lilac, strapless, had a short train, the top was form fitting, but the bottom billowed out slightly when I walked.
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The flowers are lilac-rose; calyx, tubular; corolla of five petals, narrow and notched; leaves, awl-shaped, short, bent, and opposite; stems, branched, dense and trailing.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Do some lilac pruning as you cut blooms for indoors.
The Sun
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A tree commonly planted near wells and villages in the submontane tract is the _dhrek_ (Melia azedarach, N.O. Meliaceae), which is found as far west as Persia and is often called by English people the Persian lilac.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
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April 30th the lilac blossomed; May 4th, the gelder rose, dogwood, redbud, azalea were in blossom.
The Bloom of Monticello
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In one gray plastic bin a lilac cardigan, neatly folded, nestles against a small black canvas tote.
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Spring-flowering shrubs include such popular plants as forsythia, deutzia, lilac, viburnum, mock-orange and spirea.
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The sweet smell of lilies, roses, lilacs, buttercups, violets, and many other flowers Rodom could not even recognize.
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For shrubs that bloom in early spring, like lilac (Syringa spp.), forsythia (Forsythia x intermedia) and weigela (Weigela florida), prune immediately after the blooms fade or you'll remove next year's flower buds.
The Seattle Times
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The department is luxuriously decorated in the brand's signature lilac colour, with suede lined shelving and deep carpets surrounding a large circular seating area.
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Lilacs grew against the side wall.
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Hey, there are even pastels like peach and lilac this season, so nobody has to be a wallflower.
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There were some Siberian elms, lilacs and maples also.
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To the right of the entrance hall is the original dining room, which has now become a den or winter sitting room with deep lilac walls and a dark wood fireplace.
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Glausidium palmatum displays its large, silky lilac-pink flowers, measuring up to three inches across, above large, veined, and crinkled maplelike leaves.
Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
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Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.
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After throwing on my oldest pair of jeans and aqua and lilac tie-dyed T-shirt, I made it to the meal tent.
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In March and April alone, daphne, forsythia, camelias, Japanese quince and lilacs continue in bloom.
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Amelia, eyes crinkled with tiredness, stood there fully dressed in purple corduroy trousers and an embroidered lilac jumper.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The flowers grow in two bands around this egg, and are an electric lilac in colour.
Times, Sunday Times
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We play for a while, and end up outside, where Sara is snipping lilacs from the bushes.
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She was wearing a short lilac dress and a pale cashmere jacket, beneath which the jet pendant glimmered in inky symbolism.
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There were roses, lilacs, violets, lilies of the valley, impatiens, irises, and so many more.
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A huge moon, growing in lilac and purple, hangs above.
Times, Sunday Times
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The third pair were a pale lilac colour.
Times, Sunday Times
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She added a spritz of a lilac fragranced perfume.
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Can't quite face the serried ranks of lilac-tulle-clad duchesses and hordes of merchant bankers being corporately entertained?
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Catmint is a perennial with aromatic silvery foliage and lilac-blue flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's coloured in Stella's preferred palate: gun-metal greys fading into muted violets and lilacs; lurid cerises and delicate eau de nil.
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I woke up the next day to the faint smell of lilacs and the sweet melodic sound of Alna humming a song in the shower.
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After a six-month absence, the come-hither tulips are extremely tempting in their lilacs, scarlets, apricots and girly pinks.
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Other flowers can be dipped in light batter and fried, to make delicate sweet fritters: elderflowers, apple blossom, acacia flowers, and lilacs can be used in this manner.
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They are not unlike a field of teasels in blossom -- there are the thorny points of this strange plant, and the delicate and exceedingly beautiful blossom beside, resting on the very points of a hundred lances, with their lovely lilac bloom.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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Do some lilac pruning as you cut blooms for indoors.
The Sun
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Grape hyacinths, Pulmonaria, rock cress, azaleas, lilacs, wallflowers and pinks furnish nectar in early and mid-spring.
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Under my skin my veins pule so hard, so much blood forced through them all at once, I wait to see them move, widen then shrink back down to thin strings of lilacs or purple tulips.
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Elizabeth showed Aaron her lilac bushes, which she'd planted herself and nursed until they were hearty and all abloom.
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And the bowel drippings from the night before, squirted over the lilac bush where little Cathy is playing, might not come in contact with her skin or mucous membranes.
Archive 2007-06-01
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He just lies there, in his quiet pillow man way, on top of my lilac duvet (~because you always liked it best on top in your not so quiet way~)
Wendchymes Diary Entry
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Sweet perfumed incense swims through the air, soft, deep purple carpeting cushions your every step and lilac-coloured walls simulate being inside a giant lavender-scented sachet.
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Also featured there is a display panel in the corporate blue of the university's logo, plus green and lilac to blend with the furnishing.
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The male favourite was a pale blue while the female favourite was a lilac shade of pink.
Times, Sunday Times
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While he says the bonsai and lilac collections and rose garden "rank up there," Mr. Hamm is reluctant to name a favorite part of the botanic garden.
Gift Blooms for Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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He had indeed ceased to look for any result from it, when all at once, as he stood amongst the laburnums and lilacs of a rather late spring, something seemed to burst in his brain, and that moment he was Endymion waiting for Diana in her interlunar grove, while the music of the spheres made the blossoms of a stately yet flowering forest, tremble all with conscious delight.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
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Lilacs, Canada anemone, orange hawkweed, blue-eyed grass, wild sarsaparilla, coralroot orchid in cedar-hemlock woods, hundreds of jack-in-the-pulpits along Hidden Bluff Trail.
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Lilac-crowned Parrots are predominantly granivorous and do not supplement nestling diets with arthropod prey.
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Or get right up to the minute with a lilac summer style with pretty paper flowers on the front for £34.99.
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Several clouds had blanketed themselves out across the hills and mountains in the distance, dark lilac over darker purple.
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His eyes were pale lilac, coloured contacts she mused, and they seemed to sparkle in the light like jewels.
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Gertie thought the child looked hopeful, as if, learning her money was gone, she would turn around and go back to bed, and move in time to Hamtramck, into the house with the lilac bush; and in afteryears the girl would thank her, and Victor too, for Max would some day tell him.
The Dollmaker
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Lilac plumbago, red hybiscus, and golden allemanda mingle with pink and purple lantana, yellow daisies, and hedges of scarlet tassels, enclosing wicker huts in patches of banana and cocoanut.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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It works well in crevices and for a damp spot in semishade there is a lovely lilac blue variety, corydalis flexuosa.
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The adult is a clearwing moth in the same family as the peachtree borer, lesser peachtree borer, and lilac borer.
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The newspaperman had a love for a myriad of different flower species and soon divided his interests between roses, irises, lilacs and native California plants.
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Mr. Dawson refers to the markings on the egg as ‘traces of an ancient color pattern, undoubtedly heavy, still persisting in faint lines of umber and in subdued shell markings or undertints of lavender and lilac,’ which he thinks indicate a former habit of nesting in the open.
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When found, she was wearing a pink floral dress, lilac tights, a white cardigan and black patent leather shoes.
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They had brought chairs out and were sitting in the square with the white lilac in the centre, surrounded by pinks.
Burning Bright
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Mitted cats, which can be blue, chocolate, lilac or seal, are colorpoint cats with a broken or evenly matched white blaze on the nose and/or between the eyes.
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The bridesmaids wore lilac strapless gowns with puddled trains, and carried smaller versions of the bride's bouquet.
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Sally deduced that the colours Jane should be wearing were light colours with some warmth such as peach, beige, caramel, cinnamon, apricot and a lighter version of warmer colours such as jade, lilac and blue.
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Mitted cats, which can be blue, chocolate, lilac or seal, are colorpoint cats with a broken or evenly matched white blaze on the nose and/or between the eyes.
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They are often associated with large crystals of kunzite, the lilac-colored variety of spodumene.
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One has brought along some curious lilac fluffy spheres attached to a hairband, which she informs me are earmuffs.
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In March and April alone, daphne, forsythia, camellias, Japanese quince and lilacs continue in bloom.
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The art students brought their acid colour combinations, their lilacs, tangerines and lime greens from abstract painting.
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He did not care to ascertain if she had replenished the lilacs in the tower room, and, at lunch, which was shared with three farm college students from Davis, he found himself forced to extemporize a busy afternoon for himself when Paula tentatively suggested that she would drive Graham up from Eldorado.
CHAPTER XXV
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December, and were planted directly in a frost-proof coldframe, as lilacs can be grafted.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
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She sits up in her light lilac nightie with the summer bed sheets surrounding her on their thick feather stuffed bed.
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Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . .
The Return
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Long strips of colour zigzag across the landscape like a patchwork quilt, reds and yellows mingling with purples, pinks and lilacs.
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He was standing in the center of a beautiful garden boasting blooming lilacs and tulips lost in a tangle of exotic plants, fruits and vegetables.
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But these catacombs, emptiness, desolation and that old brown lilacky, crumbly Roman earth, in which no plough need move nor spade, -- that _terriccio_, that pot-mould of the past.
The Spirit of Rome
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She saw herself among the lilacs on her college campus in upstate New York.
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Lanvin Eclat d' Arpège is tinted a delicate shade of lilac and provides a subtly feminine spritz of lilac, lemon leaves and wisteria flowers.
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When do you plan lilacs – and are there any everblooming ones left?
Add a re-blooming lilac to your 2009 wish list « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Her hood had been left back and her glossy raven hair had been tied up with a deep lilac ribbon.
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And there I sat on my front steps, being embraced in a perfume of everybody's lilacs and peachblow and sweet syringa and affectionate interest and moonlight, with a letter in my hand from the man whose two photographs and many letters I had kept locked up in the garret for years.
The Melting of Molly
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Melia azedarach, called chinaberry or West Indian lilac, contained a number of toxic alkaloids.
Jurassic Park
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The perfume of its tiny lilac flower heads will scent a room in summer months.
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Lilacs grew against the side wall.
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Bird's-eye primrose has pink or lilac flowers and dusty looking leaves.
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The air-freshener canister that had been suckered to the windshield lay quietly frothing lilac-scented foam in Graves's lap.
Excerpt: God Lives In St. Petersburg by Tom Bissell
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The meadows support a range of grasses and plants including the lilac-coloured blooms of cuckooflower or lady's smock.
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The girl was about an inch shorter and wearing a dress of lovely lilac satin.
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This summer I used a funky embroidered and beaded denim covered notebook with violet and lilac gel pens
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But another idea would be to buy unpainted furniture, and paint it a lilac in a few shades darker than the walls, with black trim.
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On the bit of garden outworks bounded by the wall is a little group of rowans and lilac, and beneath them grow more daffodils, which we have never noticed particularly.
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Thorny, what is the matter with Ben?" asked Miss Celia, one day, when she and her brother were alone in the "green parlor," as they called the lilac-tree walk.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9
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Stunning tweeds of red, lilac and brown were moulded into curvy skirt suits - some with ragged lace underskirts and others held together by large hook-and-eyes.
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The Banbury Road was in full flower—herbaceous borders still boasting a few bluebells, the forsythia giving way to prunus, bridal wreath, and lilac.
Day of the Dandelion
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I found a lovely bedspread in lilac and goldstrips, but it was mucho expensive.
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Natural colours - pebble, mushroom and lilac - soften the industrial core and contrast well with the metal staircase that links the gallery floors.
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Ether de Lilas Blanc sur Feuillage Tendre, built around a note of white lilac syringa vulgaris alba, and also featuring the notes of passion-flower, orange blossom, bark, mandarin, lilac, leaves, iris and musk, is perhaps my favorite of the three.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Grey is out in favour of coral, mint green, lilac and navy and white.
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If those other shades, the troubles of life, have become too dense and shouldered out the light, so that the sick imagination sees them as crouching beasts of prey, a pilgrimage to such a tranquil place in lilac time may help to set things right again.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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The intermediate zone consists of massive lilac-gray sodalite with inclusions of nepheline, dark green aegirine, and pale green fluorapatite.
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The leather box was lined with sarsenet that Sharpe supposed had once been of royal purple, but was now so faded and worn as to be of the palest and most threadbare lilac.
Sharpe's Rifles
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Joshua had not spoken since Lilac's entrance, but Mrs Greenways, eyeing him nervously, felt sure he was preparing to "preachify.
White Lilac; or the Queen of the May
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Bluebottle may possibly symbolize Lord and Lady Holland; and Miss Lilac is, certainly, Miss Milbanke, the "Annabella" of Byron's courtship, not the "moral Clytemnestra" of his marriage and separation.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
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There was the lilac coloured dress which rested at my ankles and had all these weird flaps of cloth everywhere.
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The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
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I found a pretty cottage with a lawn running down to the stream, and a perfect jungle of guelder-rose and lilac flanking the path.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Grape hyacinths, Pulmonaria, rock cress, azaleas, lilacs, wallflowers and pinks furnish nectar in early and mid-spring.
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Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
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Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . .
The Return
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The Tonkinese occurs in four colors: natural, which is also called sable or seal; champagne, also called chocolate; platinum, also called lilac or frost; and blue.
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Upstairs, Karen's bedroom, decorated with shades of her favourite colour lilac, remains exactly as she left it.
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As the car pulled away,the woman in the wheelchair waved and clutched the lilacs to her heart.
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She likes to wear frosted plum lipstick and opaque lilac eyeshadow to match it.
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White was combined with a rainbow of colours including lilac, baby pink, lemon, acid green and turquoise candy stripes.
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Melissa Horn and her 11-year-old son Chandler, from Lancaster, Pa., are entering two cats in the show: Mezetique Fresco, an 8-month-old seal-point Siamese who last month won a CFA-Iams Cat Idol contest in New York, and Daz, his a lilac-point half brother.
Undefined
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Just a splash of the colour lilac makes your home a lucky location.
The Sun
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They come for the butterfly weed, lilacs, echinacea and anise hyssop, and especially for the white, lavender and pink butterfly bushes.
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We passed egrets nesting in the mangrove and great mats of water hyacinth with lilac flowers; we saw fish-hawks and blue herons and watched the crocodiles being fed.
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The air was heavy with lilac fragrance, and from the distance, as he rode between the lilac hedges, Graham heard the throaty nicker of Mountain
CHAPTER XVIII
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Since then it has been found mainly in rhododendrons and viburnums, pieris, camellias, lilacs and other plants which have been imported or sat alongside imports.
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One year I stayed for a few nights in a honey domaine near Carpentras where bees and their hives were carted from lilac field to honeysuckle maze to clover meadow, the juicy fruit of their labors then captured and mixed into thick liquid gold.
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Fresh and fruity colours abound: pink, turquoise, lime green, yellow, rose and lilac are complemented with soft tones of white and beige, and very pale pastels.
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park
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After a six-month absence, the come-hither tulips are extremely tempting in their lilacs, scarlets, apricots and girly pinks.
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I picked a lovely lilac and Lauretta decided on velvet scarlet.
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Lilac bushes had passed all bounds, and took up room most graspingly.
The End of a Coil
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In the same way we have laciniated leaves of the Persian lilac, _Syringa persica_, and Moquin mentions instances in a species of _Mercurialis_ in which the leaves were deeply slashed.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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I pushed open the little gate and walked into the dooryard with the neatly mown grass bordered by lilacs and peonies and day lilies…
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I am sending you a virtual bouquet of mountain lilac from San Diego and a fresh bouquet of rosemary to remind you of Provence!
Baba cool - French Word-A-Day
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The trees that are said to have the worst litter are the Persian lilac and babul.
