rose-bud

An extensive, 19th century, frostedglass drinking service enameled with green rose-bud branches, including flasks, goblets and various glasses, is estimated at € 2,000- € 3,000.

Treasures in the Royal Attic Margaret Studer 2011

Oliver Bolingbroke, tall, lean and wealthily civilised, made a slow visual traverse of the pink rose-bud wallpaper, the linoleum on the floor, the peacock blue satin cushions on the rusty-brown chairs, the unlined floral curtains at the window.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

“A wooden rose-bud, eh?” he cried with his hand to his nose, “that will do very well; but how like all creation it smells!”

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

While others were wasting their sweetness in the glare of the world, and liable to be plucked and thrown aside by every hand, she was coyly blooming into fresh and lovely womanhood under the protection of those immaculate spinsters, like a rose-bud blushing forth among guardian thorns.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Oliver Bolingbroke, tall, lean and wealthily civilised, made a slow visual traverse of the pink rose-bud wallpaper, the linoleum on the floor, the peacock blue satin cushions on the rusty-brown chairs, the unlined floral curtains at the window.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

I shall never forget the day I saw this fatherless child, with her little pale face, rose-bud mouth and big brown eyes, which when she lifted them to mine were filled with unshed tears.

Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information Lilyan Stratton

She had gone out one day with her companions -- who, beside her, seemed like the moss that clusters on a rose-bud -- to watch the shoal in the weir as the treacherous ebb forsook it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

_Manly passion is to the conjugal love of the wife like the sun to the rose-bud, that opens its petals, and causes them to give out their sweetest fragrance and to display their most delicate tints; or like the frost, which chills and kills it ere it blossoms in its richness and beauty.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

When about to pluck a rose-bud, have you not started sometimes to find it covered with little green insects?

The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

But the God-given, iridescent love of youth for youth, with its passion so swift, so sweet; a love like the rose-bud which hangs half-closed over the door in the dawn; which is wide-flung to the sun at noon; which scatters its petals at dusk.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest