myrtle

• Jacob's myrtle -- she always thought of it as a myrtle-- remained in her library. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 06 - December 1995
• The tents of the generals were crowned with myrtle, the beds were strewed with flowers, and tables every where were spread for feasts, with cups and bowls of wine all ready for the expected revelers. —  History of Julius Caesar
• She was worshipped as Venus Cloacina (or the Purifier), and as Venus Myrtea (or the myrtle goddess), an epithet derived from the myrtle, the emblem of Love HELIOS (SOL The worship of Helios was introduced into Greece from Asia. —  Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
• There grow on every side thick entangled wildernesses of myrtle, and the myrletus and bay and the flowering laurestinus, whose white blossoms are just developed, the white fig and a thousand nameless plants sown by the wandering winds. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
• Then they would turn their faces to the hill, questing for the good odour of the "gall" or bog-myrtle, which is the characteristic smell of good going in the Galloway wilderness. —  Patsy

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