hawthorn

• Some are of hawthorn trees only, some of hazel only, though others are principally of hazel, with a few hawthorns intermixed; or again, of hazel, hawthorn, and blackthorn. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
• Then the air is so delightfully perfumed with azalea, hawthorn, and lilac, and the nightingales sing so beautifully on the opposite banks, that it is difficult to come in at all PUTNEY HOUSE, April 30, 1840 Finished my beloved “Sir Samuel Romilly.” It is a book that everybody, especially men, should immediately read and meditate upon. —  Lady John Russell
• The hawthorn was associated with sex orgies and the month of May, and so was the apple. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• 'And I'—he said once again—'shall it be lawful for me to keep this sprig of hawthorn, and will it not repent thee of thy gift Then all the servants who stood in hall, laughed, and the serf's hands trembled till they dropped the baton into the rushes, knowing that his lord did but jest Which mine did not. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
• There were hedges covered with hawthorn, and the scent of it reached us as we rushed past. —  Gossamer 1915

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