rose-tree

• “On the table is a rose-tree in bloom, and other plants around it.”

  The Lady from the Sea

• “The mysterious wind of will drove me to you, as the tempest brings the little rose-tree to the pollard window.”

  Modeste Mignon

• “The boughs of a monthly rose which grew there made such a noise sometimes, but as no wind was stirring he knew that it could not be the rose-tree.”

  The Woodlanders

• “The last flower attended. to was a rose-tree, which bloomed in a quiet green nook at the back of the house.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “And he himself sank with so earth-shaking a subsidence that he broke a big rose-tree with his body and shook up into the sky a cloud of red earth — like the smoke of some heathen sacrifice.”

  The Complete Father Brown

• “But his daughter saw him coming, and changed her horse into a plot of ground, herself into a rose-tree covered with roses, and the prince into a gardener.”

  The Violet Fairy Book

• “When the three servants came to the forest, nothing was there but a rose-tree and one rose on it, but the children were nowhere.”

  Household Tales

• “He replied: ‘I intended to fill the skirts of my robe with roses, when I reached the rose-tree, as presents for my friends but the perfume of the flowers intoxicated me so much that I let, go the hold of my skirts.’”

  The Gulistan of Sa'di

• “And the tears ran down her cheeks and splashed on to the rose-tree roots.”

  The Red Fairy Book

• “A great rose-tree covered with flowers, climbing as high as her window, exhaled in the night a soft and gentle perfume, in light breaths; and she stood for a moment enjoying it.”

  Yvette

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