peach-trees

Excess of zeal ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees.

Les Miserables 2008

It has been described how the Misses Dobbin lived with their father at a fine villa at Denmark Hill, where there were beautiful graperies and peach-trees which delighted little Georgy Osborne.

Vanity Fair 2006

All the girls in Hill Street were delighted at getting the presents from Aunt Warrington in Virginia and addressed a collective note, which must have astonished that good lady when she received it in spring-time, when she and Mountain and Fanny were on a visit to grim deserted Castlewood, when the snows had cleared away and a thousand peach-trees flushed with blossoms.

The Virginians 2006

In short, to have rounded that headland from the north is as good as to turn the corner of a garden wall in March, and pass from a buffeted back, and bare shivers, to a sunny front of hope all as busy as a bee, with pears spurring forward into creamy buds of promise, peach-trees already in a flush of tasselled pink, and the green lobe of the apricot shedding the snowy bloom.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Carolinian peach-trees — was as lovely as on that long-ago night when he chased Fleur therein.

Swan Song 2004

In front of a long high southerly wall on which were trained peach-trees the two walked up and down in silence.

In Chancery 2004

We keep the door on to the terrace always open now, while the path to the orangery is dry and the peach-trees are in full blossom.

Childhood 2003

Straightway as he uttered the remark, he led them in, and winding round the jade-green peach-trees, covered with blossom, they passed through the bamboo fence and flower-laden hedge, which were twisted in such a way as to form a circular, cavelike gateway, when unexpectedly appeared before their eyes an enclosure with whitewashed walls, in which verdant willows drooped in every direction.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Numerous cottages were surrounded by vines, and by orchards of apple, nectarine, and peach-trees — their boughs breaking with the weight of the beautiful ripe fruit.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Numerous cottages were surrounded by vines, and by orchards of apple, nectarine, and peach-trees — their boughs breaking with the weight of the beautiful ripe fruit.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003