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  • Among the thick, silky petals of each rose-bloom lived tiny, crab-like spiders that scuttled sideways when disturbed.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

  • Clement had placed a red curtain so as to throw a rose-bloom on his marble, and give it an aspect which his fancy turned to the semblance of life.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

  • Bring back the rose-bloom frae the winter o 'death?

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • A sense of thorough enjoyment flashes from the bright, blue-gray eyes, and is indicated by the rose-bloom on cheek and lips.

    The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

  • Gila all in gray like a dove, gray suit of soft, rich cloth, gray furs of the depth and richness of smoke, gray suède boots laced high to meet her brief gray skirts, silver hat with a single velvet rose on the brim to match the soft rose-bloom on her cheeks.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • An 'the rose-bloom o' beauty, e'er autumn winds wither,

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Ere the good lady could collect herself to reply with the decorous deliberateness becoming her years and station, an embroidery-frame at her side was overturned, and there sprang eagerly forward a comely young damsel of the pure Saxon stock, with eyes like England's violets, -- clear, dewy, and wide-awake, -- cheeks and lips like its rose-bloom, and hair which held tangled in close, golden folds its fickle and flying sunshine.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • He had left a school girl, and he found a woman – a woman with wonderful eyes and a dented lip, and rose-bloom cheek – a woman altogether beautiful and desirable – the woman of his dreams.

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • Saleve in its evening rose-bloom, Mont-Blanc which strikes greatness small; or at night he is beneath the luminous worlds which

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • That was, to my thinking, as flagrant hypocrisy as was ever heard, for if those two maids had been clad alike as beggars, Mary Cavendish would have carried off the palm, with no dissenting voice, though Cate Culpeper was fair enough to see, with her father's grace of manner, and his harshness of feature softened by her rose-bloom of youth.

    The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

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