Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
smoke-tree .
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Examples
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The red sand was dotted with vegetation: a prickly bush here, a sand-creeper there; a clump of smoke-bush behind that.
Archive 2008-07-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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The red sand was dotted with vegetation: a prickly bush here, a sand-creeper there; a clump of smoke-bush behind that.
Writing progress Glenda Larke 2008
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Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant ‘smoke-bush’ blue was trailed along the horizon.
To Let 2004
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Once he used the hunters 'hand signals to send them all into a thick stand of smoke-bush.
Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993
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Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant "smoke-bush" blue was trailed along the horizon.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900
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Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant "smoke-bush" blue was trailed along the horizon.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Blackbirds sang recklessly in the shrubbery, swallows were flying high, the leaves above him glistened; and over the fields was every imaginable tint of early foliage, burnished by the level sunlight, away to where the distant "smoke-bush" blue was trailed along the horizon.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900
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Bullets had cut away the rose-trees and the smoke-bush; the garden was no more.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872
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