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  • Lilac's floral scent is used to promote harmony and increase mental abilities and invokes long forgotten emotions.

    Brigitte Mars: Lovely Lilacs with Brigitte Mars 2010

  • According to Greek mythology, a beautiful nymph named Syringa (Lilac's genus name) had captivated, Pan, the god of the forests and fields, with her beauty.

    Brigitte Mars: Lovely Lilacs with Brigitte Mars 2010

  • Whandall's impatience died when he saw his wife's face, and Lilac's.

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

  • And Whandall's family knew the tale, but horror looked out of Lilac's eyes.

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

  • One night during the trek to find Morth, Green Stone had crawled into Lilac's blanket and gotten himself a long and heated lecture involving one-horns, rumor, custom, and the rights of parents.

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

  • His eye rested as he spoke on Lilac's eager face, and seizing the opportunity of a pause she rushed in with what she had so much on her mind:

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • But Joshua was in a moralising mood, and though Lilac's question gave him another subject to discourse on, he was more bent on hearing himself talk than in getting over her difficulty.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • Lilac's work increased; other people beside Mrs Greenways discovered the advantage of her willing hands, and were glad to put some of their own business into them.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • The troubles of the Wishings were very familiar to Lilac's ears, and, though she took her knitting and sat down on her little stool close to her mother, she did not listen much to what she was saying.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • Joshua made his visit as long as he could in the hope of Lilac's return, but she did not appear, and at last he could wait no longer.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

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