almond-blossom

Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom

Carol Muske-Dukes: Soldier to Poet: Naming of Parts (Part III) 2010

Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom

Soldier to Poet: Naming of Parts (Part III) 2010

Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom

The way you speak to me…. Chickenlady 2009

There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods — violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

The Man of Property 2004

And glass cases, stacks of blotting-paper and sheets of cork were set up afresh in this big, pleasant room, the windows of which looked down a vista cut through spreading oleanders to where, in the orchard, peach and almond-blossom vied in pinkness against a pale blue sky.

The Way Home 2003

Above, remained visions of white cities, and slender towers, and vine-clad hills; of olive groves bedded in violets; fine music heard in opera and oratorio; coffee-drinking in shady gardens on the banks of a lake; orchards of pink almond-blossom massed against the misty blue of far mountain valley.

The Way Home 2003

If it were but winter now again, instead of the terrible, lovely spring, when she will have the blue sky and the hawthorn-spray and the brooks to love -- and the almond-blossom and the cuckoo, and that guelder-rose which he will have to bear with ...

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

Only, things will get lovelier every day, for the spring is back, or at any rate close at hand -- the spring, when the almond-blossom blows.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

There are many worse things, however, than dropping gently to sleep in the open air with the faint scent from the almond-blossom titillating the nostrils.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

Page: 61 thought of Greece, with echo of Africa, when instead of bleak wind and barren marsh there is lemon flower and almond-blossom, something of the clamorous richness of the South must pass into one's very being never to be eradicated.

DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920