rose-bushes

Half hidden beneath one of the rose-bushes, a fair-sized stoat in what remained of its red-brown summer coat.

Excerpt: A Visible Darkness by Michael Gregorio 2009

I remember noting, when I came up the gravel walk between the rose-bushes, that my heart was not in my mouth as it should have been according to convention.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

I endeavoured to tie my handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the rose-bushes.

Sole Music 2010

“It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in this world before here.”

I quit « Climate Audit 2007

Over her accustomed gown she wore a blouse or pinafore, which, being fastened round her little waist by a smart belt, looked extremely well, and her bands were guaranteed from the thorns of her favourite rose-bushes by a pair of gauntlets, which gave this young lady a military and resolute air.

The History of Pendennis 2006

As he stooped in the dark to kiss her again among the rose-bushes, he felt that it was almost worth his while to have been in prison.

John Caldigate 2004

‘It seems just like the other day,’ said Dick, looking round upon the rose-bushes.

John Caldigate 2004

Bobbie planted rose-bushes in her garden, but all the little new leaves of the rose-bushes shrivelled and withered, perhaps because she moved them from the other part of the garden in May, which is not at all the right time of year for moving roses.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

So when Bobbie came back from her last thorny journey with the dead rose-bushes, he had got the rake and was using it busily.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

In a minute he was following Gloria down a garden-walk between tall rose-bushes, her parasol brushing gently the June-blooming leaves.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003