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  • Right now, my community does pick up vegetative waste but it is limited to things like “grass clippings, sticker balls, acorns, pine cones and viney type materials such as ivy, honey-suckle, poison ivy, laurel and plant clippings.”

    Curbside Composting: A Valuable Community Service 2008

  • There was a great bench at the door between two huge honey-suckle bushes, that were pink with blossom and full of scent.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • He inhaled the honey-suckle scent of her shampoo like some infatuated adolescent.

    Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003

  • The windows of his new room were fitted with green venetians; round the verandah-posts twined respectively a banksia and a Japanese honey-suckle, which further damped the glare; while on the patch of buffalo-grass in front stood a spreading fig-tree, that leafed well and threw a fine shade.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Paul pointed out the ropes of green snakes, the movement of alligators, the nutrias, the birds, and the beautiful honey-suckle covering the banks of the canals.

    All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995

  • Paul pointed out the ropes of green snakes, the movement of alligators, the nutrias, the birds, and the beautiful honey-suckle covering the banks of the canals.

    All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995

  • The fragrance of the woods mingled delightfully with the perfume of the wild honey-suckle.

    The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Janet Aldridge

  • Her pink hair bows, even the second-best ones, lifted her to a state which made it much pleasanter to idle in her window, sniffing at the honey-suckle, than to hurry down to the piano.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • Throughout the whole, the chaste Grecian honey-suckle is introduced with very pleasing effect.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 Various

  • A house stands, tenantless, in the centre of this garden, protected at the back from the north wind by a bank, on which spring here and there flowers and weeds entwined; while its front, turned to the south's warm breath, is enlivened by a few statues, round the pedestals of which creep the vine and honey-suckle.

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

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