may-blossom

The car purred along past majestic trees, thick hedgerows of hazel and thorn, white with may-blossom and heavy with its scent.

Farthing 2006

The may-blossom, rather late, was at its brightest, and its scent qualified the frequent drifts of petrol fume.

Flowering Wilderness 2004

Like most dark, sallow women, whose own brief freshness is past, the elder girl passionately admired such may-blossom beauty, as something belonging to a different race from herself.

Maurice Guest 2003

When the blessed saint visited us in the church there, as before in vision, she came with showers of may-blossom.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

He'd been keeping a solitary night-watch in the old church, and in the morning when it ended, there were his habit and sandals fallen together at his prayer-stool, and the body of him lifted clean out of them, in sweet odours and a shower of may-blossom.

The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

Hedges of hazel and may-blossom shed silver petals and dangled pale, silver-green catkins round the enclosure where they stood, cowslips were rearing in the grass of the meadow beyond, and irises were in tight, thrusting bud.

The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

Through the narrow east window the fragrance of the falling may-blossom breathed freshness on a very light breeze, causing the flames to flicker for a few minutes.

A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

Pick some primroses and ferns, and I will get up early to-morrow to gather may-blossom and make the garland, 'Alice promised, as she kissed her good-bye.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

In the garden the snowballs, guelder-roses, swayed softly among green foliage, there was pink may-blossom, and single scarlet may-blossom, and underneath the young green of the trees, irises rearing purple and moth-white.

The Lost Girl 1907

Be that as it may, in those early days when he brought his wife to her new home, his window on the Manchester side was a foam and a may-blossom of muslins and prints, his window on the London side was an autumn evening of silks and rich fabrics.

The Lost Girl 1907