rose-bed

Mona's ashes had been scattered on a rose-bed in the crematorium gardens, with no memorial plaque.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

Mona's ashes had been scattered on a rose-bed in the crematorium gardens, with no memorial plaque.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

What was presumably lawn looked like a field; where there had originally been flowerbeds was now a tangle of weeds, and it was only when she had pushed past the overgrown briars of what must have once been a rose-bed and spied the primroses growing beneath the unpruned suckers that she knew where her work was going to begin.

A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991

What was presumably lawn looked like a field; where there had originally been flowerbeds was now a tangle of weeds, and it was only when she had pushed past the overgrown briars of what must have once been a rose-bed and spied the primroses growing beneath the unpruned suckers that she knew where her work was going to begin.

A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991

He might have been contemplating the making of a rose-bed in the Queen's garden at Camelot.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

To me it was as certain as if I had seen it happen that the wearer of the boots trampled his way off the rose-bed as slowly as he had trampled on.

The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

Gimblet put the letter away with the other items of evidence of Mark's guilt: the telegram from the analyst in Edinburgh, the measurements of the footprints on the rose-bed, and of those other marks near the hedge by which he had at first been mystified.

The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

A short search showed me the plank itself, kept in a tool-house conveniently near the spot, and, with a rake taken from the same place, I seized the opportunity of raking out my own footmarks from the rose-bed.

The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

And of Leogaire were born two daughters, like roses growing in a rose-bed.

The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

There is reality _there_, even in blight and corruption; something is forwarded, only perhaps not the thing before us, -- as the virtue of the compost-heap appears not in it, but in the rose-bed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various