eglantines

He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.

Les Miserables 2008

In the middle was a slate sundial on a brick pedestal; four flower beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen garden bed.

Madame Bovary 2003

They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.

Madame Bovary 2003

English turf: we root up the brambles and eglantines which might tear the skirts of the ladies.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

Book in hand, I meditated upon the way in which those whom Love destroys with its cruel malady wander through the secret paths in the depth of the myrtle forest, and, as I meditated, the quivering reflections of the stars came and mingled with those of the leafless eglantines in the waters of the cloister fountain.

Penguin Island 1909

Page brick pedestal; four flower beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen garden bed.

Madame Bovary 1902

Book in hand, I meditated upon the way in which those whom Love destroys with its cruel malady wander through the secret paths in the depth of the myrtle forest, and, as I meditated, the quivering reflections of the stars came and mingled with those of the leafless eglantines in the waters of the cloister fountain.

Penguin Island Anatole France 1884

Plant no "forget-me-nots" or eglantines around the spot, for flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath.

The Abominations of Modern Society 1867

He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.

Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

If you have time, draw all the rows of cabbages, and hollyhocks, and broken fences, and wandering eglantines, and bossy roses: you cannot have better practice, nor be kept by anything in purer thoughts.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859