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  • No usually it starts when the lilac's are in bloom.

    Morels 2009

  • No usually it starts when the lilac's are in bloom.

    Morels 2009

  • Most of us can't get enough of the lilac's pervasive scent and am always left wanting more.

    Suzy Bales: Blooming Buddies: Lilacs and Peonies 2009

  • Making his solitary way back to his own dwelling, he could smell the lilac's perfume.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • Here the lilac's purple plume and here the pink of cherry,

    Fires of Driftwood 1922

  • This preliminary welcome seemed to comfort him out of all proportion to its significance; he gazed complacently about at the trees and flowers, drew in deep breaths of the lilac's fragrance, and waited, listening contentedly for the coming foot-fall.

    The Gay Rebellion Edmund Frederick 1899

  • Outside the window he saw how the lilac's dully varnished buds had swollen and where the prophecy of snow-drop and crocus under the buckthorn hedge might be fulfilled on the morrow.

    The Firing Line 1899

  • But grief, overwhelming grief, is in every line of it, the grief which has been transmuted into this sensitiveness to the landscape, to the song of the thrush, to the lilac's bloom, and the sunset.

    Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897

  • The old England robin, with its plumage of gorgeous scarlet, dashed with jet, swung in its airy nest, suspended from the topmost boughs of the tall elms, and the blue and yellow birds fluttered with warbling throats among the lilac's now flowerless but verdant boughs.

    Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

  • However, the lilac's in highland park are too, and that could mean bad news for the Lilac Festival.

    Rochesterhomepage.net News Headlines Feed 2010

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