laurustinus

Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

It was separated from the Boulevard de la Madeleine by a green paddock, and was concealed in a nest of laurustinus and clematis.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

A whiff of perfume from the laurustinus in the drive came back, the scent of hay, and with it the sound of the mowing-machine going over the lawn.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

The second-best room in the Manor, situated upon the first floor, it overlooked the back of the garden, where there was a tangled thicket of laurustinus and rhododendron.

The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

The second-best room in the Manor, situated upon the first floor, it overlooked the back of the garden, where there was a tangled thicket of laurustinus and rhododendron.

The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

The perfect stillness preserved by his follower seemed to reassure him; he turned aside, and from the midst of a thickest laurustinus drew forth

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

They lit up the garden so vividly that each separate leaf on the laurustinus bushes cast its own sharp shadow.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Down the alleys maimed statues stretched their arms like rows of whining beggars; faun-eared terms grinned in the thicket, and above the laurustinus walls rose the mock ruin of a temple, falling into real ruin in the bright disintegrating air.

The Duchess at Prayer 1900

Lizards shot out of the cracked soil like flames and the bench in the laurustinus-niche was strewn with the blue varnished bodies of dead flies.

The Duchess at Prayer 1900

Down the alleys maimed statues stretched their arms like rows of whining beggars; faun-eared terms grinned in the thicket, and above the laurustinus walls rose the mock ruin of a temple, falling into real ruin in the bright disintegrating air.

The Duchess at Prayer 1900