spindle-tree

Walking some forty paces away, Sergey Ivanovitch, knowing he was out of sight, stood still behind a bushy spindle-tree in full flower with its rosy red catkins.

Anna Karenina 2003

Among the commoner plants of the order may be mentioned the spindle-tree, or burning-bush, as it is sometimes called (_Euonymus_) (Fig.  109, _A_), and the climbing bitter-sweet (_Celastrus_) (Fig.  109, _D_), belonging to the family _Celastraceæ_; the holly and black alder, species of

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Then Rosalind saw a sunset pretending to be a spindle-tree, scattering flecks of red and yellow light upon the ground, till the grass threw up a reflection of the tree, as a cloud in the east will reflect another in the west.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

Then Rosalind saw a sunset pretending to be a spindle-tree, scattering flecks of red and yellow light upon the ground, till the grass threw up a reflection of the tree, as a cloud in the east will reflect another in the west.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

Then Rosalind saw a sunset pretending to be a spindle-tree, scattering flecks of red and yellow light upon the ground, till the grass threw up

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

[Illustration: An afternoon when the Gardens were white with snow] 'Of course it is no affair of ours,' a spindle-tree said after they had whispered together, 'but you know quite well you ought not to be here, and perhaps our duty is to report you to the fairies; what do you think yourself?'

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Arthur Rackham 1898

Then, while a grand liturgy is recited, the "heaven-startling" Kami, having girdled herself with moss, crowned her head with a wreath of spindle-tree leaves and gathered a bouquet of bamboo grass, mounts upon a hollow wooden vessel and dances, stamping so that the wood resounds and reciting the ten numerals repeatedly.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Which done, place on the crown some rods of spindle-tree, (29) but not so as to stick out beyond the outer rim; and above these again light leaves, such as the season may provide.

The Sportsman 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

He was now hidden by a big spindle-tree, and was darting side-glances at Rosalie, luring her on against her will with the strokes of his rake.

A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

However, betwixt the spare branches of the spindle-tree the child had seen the incident.

A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871