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Though our prisons and cemeteries mark the consequences of human sin, Christ is the rose-bush flowering outside our cell-door, along side our tombstones.
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Though our prisons and cemeteries mark the consequences of human sin, Christ is the rose-bush flowering outside our cell-door, along side our tombstones.
Archive 2009-07-12 2009
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Her legs parted, her skirts open; the youth in the rose-bush, hat off, arm erect, lunges towards her.
Jean-Honore Fragonard – The Swing 1767 | ultraorange.net 2008
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“Not the least,” said Bertha, as, wrapping herself in her cassock, she sprung from the ground, and alighted upon the spirited palfrey, as a linnet stoops upon a rose-bush.
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“Flowery,” that which is in blossom; a tree in blossom, a rose-bush in blossom: people do not say, flowers which blossom.
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Outside my window here where I work, the tall rose-bush is blooming and beyond it is a small but agreeable lush patch of grass.
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007
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Outside my window here where I work, the tall rose-bush is blooming and beyond it is a small but agreeable lush patch of grass.
Archive 2007-06-01 Joanna Bogle 2007
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Why, sir, answered I, I have sometimes hid them under the dry mould in the garden; sometimes in one place, sometimes in another; and those you have in your hand, were several days under a rose-bush, in the garden.
Pamela 2006
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I am very sorrowful, and still have greater reason; for, just now, as I was in my closet, opening the parcel I had hid under the rose-bush, to see if it was damaged by lying so long, Mrs. Jewkes came upon me by surprise, and laid her hands upon it; for she had been looking through the key-hole, it seems.
Pamela 2006
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I have removed my papers from under the rose-bush; for I saw the gardener begin to dig near that spot; and I was afraid he would find them.
Pamela 2006
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