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Examples
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Near at hand, on the outskirts of the railside towns, were pink hibiscus, bouga-nvillea, poignant syringas, lavender bushes and wild poppies.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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There were the tall hollyhocks beginning to flower and dazzle the eye with their pink, white, and yellow; there were the syringas and
Adam Bede 2004
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Roses and syringas hung, when I was young, when I was young.
The Years 2004
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He fluttered slowly to the ground and paused for a few minutes under a thicket of syringas, and while he was gazing about him, there walked slowly past a flock of the same beautiful birds he had seen so many months ago.
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The tenderness of the old days came back to their hearts, full and silent as the flowing river, with the softness of the perfume of the syringas, and threw across their memories shadows more immense and more sombre than those of the still willows that lengthened out over the grass.
Madame Bovary 2003
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The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.
Madame Bovary 2003
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At length she was able to let me in, but the scent of the syringas put her to flight.
The Captive 2003
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He climbed down again and fussed with the hobbles of the horses before returning to the grove of syringas.
The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966
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However, father suggested I might succeed by planting the seed in the shade out of doors, and even though it was quite late in the summer I got more seed and sowed it broadcast in a hedge of lilacs, syringas and so forth, kept the ground moist, and in a short time had many plants coming up.
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The mock oranges, syringas and others were all very good, but the spireas suffered much when in flower from rains.
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