rose-beds

Our eyes lifted over the rose-beds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog-days along-shore.

The Great Gatsby 2003

There were a couple of rose-beds, but the soil was rockhard and had not been disturbed.

Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

But I protest against the dogmatism of rural people, who claim all the cardinal and all the remaining virtues for their rose-beds and cabbage-patches.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

Peter since her babyhood, ruined his piano with sticky fingers, trampled his rose-beds, coaxed him into asking her father to let her sit up for dinner.

Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

I have a friend who makes this champagne himself and gives me some of it for my rose-beds.

In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923

Gravel paths intersected rose-beds cut into all manner of fantastic shapes where stood the slender shoots of the young rose-trees each with its tag setting forth its kind, for Hartley Parrish had been an enthusiastic amateur in this direction.

The Yellow Streak Valentine Williams 1914

Near it, or in its streets, are some of the prettiest and most ancient timber houses in the county; the churchyard with its brick paths, its rose-beds, the red walls round it and its view of the

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Palaces and villas came into sight and vanished; Yildiz upon its hill scattered among the trees of its immense park; Dolmabaghcheh stretched out along the water's edges, with its rose-beds before it; and its gravely staring sentinels; Beylerbey Serai on the Asian shore, with its marble quay and its terraced gardens, not far from Kandili and the sweet waters of Asia.

In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Comes the poet, ruthlessly leaping the wall and trumpeting indecently his view - halloo of the chase, and, after him, the joker, snickering and hopeful of a kill among the rose-beds; for this has been their hunting-ground since the world began.

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

As I talked, we half unconsciously moved across the lawn together, finally seating ourselves upon a bench beyond the rose-beds and near the high fence.

Beasley's Christmas Party Booth Tarkington 1907