laburnum

• I am on my pretty red sofa looking out from my middle window in lazy luxury at oak, ivy hawthorn, laburnum, and blue sky; not very much to be pitied, am I except, my dearest, for the weary, weary separation that takes away the life of life—and for my anxiety about what is to be the result of all this, which, however, I do not allow to weigh upon me. —  Lady John Russell
• You hear the wind blowing through his pieces, and see the tassels of the laburnum-tree he was sitting under swaying about in it The concert was an annual gaiety which most of the people in the neighbourhood attended, and was generally much above the average of village performances. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
• The one brave laburnum which gave brightness and fragrance to her garden-square told her that in the larger open spaces the flowering shrubs would be at their best As she ran down the steps of the tube station, she saw that a train which would take her to Hammersmith, where she would have to change for Kew Gardens, was drawn up at the platform; the passengers who were leaving it were trying to ascend the stairs. —  There was a King in Egypt
• He had brought an atmosphere of romance and passion into the laburnum-lit garden Margaret introduced Michael, who was perfectly at his ease on such an occasion My friend has arrived from the Front," she said. —  There was a King in Egypt
• Were it as sweet as a garden in Delos, were the ground carpeted with violet and primrose and shadows of laburnum, the burying-ground of Mafeking would still be a sad spot on the chart of British South Africa XXVI GOOD-BYE TO MAFEKING A sudden order from General Hunter; a morning of preparation; a commotion of dismantling, packing, harnessing, saddling; handshaking and well-wishing; cheers ringing, hoofs clattering, dust rising beneath wheels and many feet, a backward glance along the road, and--Good-bye to Mafeking. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900

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