lime-trees

And something that sounds pretty, that sounds as thought it might be a cliché, is exactly right: "The lime-trees breathe their fragrance to the night."

Archive 2008-07-01 Theodora Goss 2008

The lime-trees breathe their fragrance to the night

Archive 2008-07-01 Theodora Goss 2008

And something that sounds pretty, that sounds as thought it might be a cliché, is exactly right: "The lime-trees breathe their fragrance to the night."

Long Ago When I Was Young Theodora Goss 2008

The stately gate for carriages, or the humble accommodation for foot-passengers, admitted into a narrow and short passage running between two rows of lime-trees, whose green foliage during the spring contrasted strangely with the swart complexion of the two walls by the side of which they grew.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

The lime-trees breathe their fragrance to the night

Long Ago When I Was Young Theodora Goss 2008

In plain words, what I wanted was to speak with Felipe, alone, at night, under the lime-trees at the bottom of our garden.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

Then followed a talk like our old talks at Blois, while the same Loire we used to admire called forth our praises, and at half-past seven we entered the noble long avenue of lime-trees, acacias, sycamores, and larches which leads to Chantepleurs.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

My head swam with the intoxicating delight of finding myself all but alone with him in the friendly shade of the lime-trees, beyond which lay the garden, shining all the more brightly because the white facade of the house reflected the moonlight.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

There, on a bench beneath the lime-trees, Etienne Lousteau sat and listened to sample-sonnets from the Marguerites.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

What happy hours we should have chattered away, lost in the mazes of uncertainty, enjoying in anticipation all the delights and horrors of a first meeting in the silence of night, under the noble lime-trees of the Chaulieu mansion, with the moonlight dancing through the leaves!

Letters of Two Brides 2007