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  • The vine of sweet-peas I'm guessing? floating between the two only adds to the WuuuuuuEeeeeeeeeeeUhooo* quality.

    Double Your Photos, Double Your "Fun" Jen 2009

  • Her arms were full of sweet-peas and roses which she had ruthlessly gathered.

    The Titan 2004

  • In the golden glow of lamplight she set small bowls of white and lavender sweet-peas, and mignonette, upon the round table.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • The largest was a regular hothouse bouquet, of tea-rosebuds, scentless heath, and smilax; the second was just a handful of sweet-peas and mignonette, with a few cheerful pansies, and one fragrant little rose in the middle; the third, a small posy of scarlet verbenas, white feverfew, and green leaves.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • They always took first prize for sweet-peas at the local flower show.

    Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • Do not call us traitors, then, who choose to be cool and silent through the fever of the hour, -- who choose to search in common things for auguries of the hopeful, helpful calm to come, finding even in these poor sweet-peas, thrusting their tendrils through the brown mould, a deeper, more healthful lesson for the eye and soul than warring evils or truths.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

  • The fact is, women are burdened with fealty, faith, reverence, more than they know what to do with; they stand like a hedge of sweet-peas, throwing out fluttering tendrils everywhere for something high and strong to climb by, -- and when they find it, be it ever so rough in the bark, they catch upon it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

  • At six o'clock that morning the dew lay heavy upon the matted grape leaves, and over the little vegetable garden behind the house, with its outlying poles of hop-vines and sweet-peas.

    Peggy-Alone Mary Agnes Byrne

  • Lights flashed on swords and on armour, and on the sumptuous trappings and brilliant-coloured attire of lords and of ladies, for courts in those days looked like hedges of sweet-peas in the summer sun.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • It really was difficult to know what to leave out when all was so sweet; but they thought mignonnette, a half-blown moss rose, some sweet-peas, a piece of honeysuckle and of white jasmine, some pinks, and a little stock, could not fail to be agreeable.

    Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Caroline Hadley

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