night-blooming

• “At the gate, Reem broke off a small branch of night-blooming jasmine and handed it to me.”

  Simon & Schuster: Day of Honey

• “Datura waved the sisters to the couch by a glass coffee table piled with books on night-blooming plants.”

  Simon & Schuster: Slice Of Cherry

• “The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.”

  Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone

• “Archie Coleman, who filled his quarters with Turkish antiques and tended to be a braggart, was put in charge of overseeing another chain of agents code-named “Cereus,” after a night-blooming cactus in the American West.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wild Bill Donovan

• “This night-blooming flower no relation to the rose has obsessed perfumers for centuries.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Rose by Another Name

• “She wasn't trying to mock the sun with night-blooming flowers.”

  Fictionaut: Painted Garden

• “Two Japanese yard-boys were trimming hibiscus, a third was engaged expertly with the long hedge of night-blooming cereus that was shortly expectant of unfolding in its mysterious night-bloom.”

  ON THE MAKALOA MAT

• “And abruptly all that he was suffering, all that he had just observed, from the night-blooming hedge and the two-by-two love-murmuring humans to the pair like thieves in each other's arms, crystallized into a parable of life enunciated by the day-blooming hibiscus upon which he gazed, now at the end of its day.”

  THE KANAKA SURF

• “Across the lawn, at the far edge, he came upon the hedge of night-blooming cereus.”

  THE KANAKA SURF

• “A couple of loud crickets kept chirping back and forth to one another, and the exotic odor of night-blooming jasmine wafted over me.”

  Fictionaut: Wild Dreams of Reality, 12

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