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  • Women of my generation are still the second-class citizens of fairy tales: only now, we don't even have the chivalry or the ever-blooming roses to comfort us in our eternal boredom.

    An Open Letter to the Women Who Are Telling Me It's My Fault I'm Not Married 2011

  • She no doubt knew of the ever-blooming Obama family tree in Africa.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • She no doubt knew of the ever-blooming Obama family tree in Africa.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • She no doubt knew of the ever-blooming Obama family tree in Africa.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • She no doubt knew of the ever-blooming Obama family tree in Africa.

    The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010

  • And he contrived also that the garden of Alcinous should preserve the likeness of Paradise, and through this likeness he represented it as ever-blooming and full of all fruits.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • However this be, I certainly envied his sublime highness the possession of so charming a retreat: it is a place to live and die in; and I felt a momentary desire to pass the remainder of my existence within its ever-blooming orange, rose, and jasmine bowers.

    Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

  • Let it be termed a delusion, -- a fool's Paradise is better than the wise man's Tartarus; be it branded as an _ignis-fatuus_, -- it was at least a benevolent one, which, instead of beguiling its followers into swamps, caverns, and pitfalls, allured them on with all the blandishments of enchantment to a garden of Eden, an ever-blooming

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

  • Among the day-dreams of the Rulers of Venice the island of Cyprus had long loomed large and fair -- Cyprus, the happy isle of romance, _l'isola fortunata_, sea-girdled, clothed with dense forests of precious woods, veined with inexhaustible mines of rich metals; a very garden of luscious fruits, garlanded with ever-blooming flowers -- a land flowing with milk and honey and steeped in the fragrance of wines that a god might covet.

    The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

  • So if he were motionless; but let him speak, and the internal freshness was still there, an ever-blooming garden of intellectual flowers.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

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