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  • It is a Dark Rose, not necessarily come-hither vampy, but certainly suggestively brooding, and Dark Roses are the only kind I can love at all; no easy, breathy, pastel tea-roses for me, please!

    Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypre: Perfume Review and a Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2009

  • It is a Dark Rose, not necessarily come-hither vampy, but certainly suggestively brooding, and Dark Roses are the only kind I can love at all; no easy, breathy, pastel tea-roses for me, please!

    Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • Hothouse flowers grow in rank profusion round every house, and tea-roses, fuchsias, geraniums fifteen feet high,

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Josephine and Joyce had made a huge bouquet of tea-roses interspersed with samples of the trees and shrubs and flowers which were to be planted in the "White Cottage" garden.

    Judy of York Hill Ethel Hume Bennett

  • Delicate pink and straw-coloured tea-roses, camellias, and jonquils mingled their high-born beauties with the more homely charms of wild-flowers that grew under the shadow of the great solemn stone-pines on the heights around, or twined their fresh garlands over the sad ruins of the Campagna.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • What was more attractive, however, was the show of holly, mistletoe, fir-trees, camellias, tea-roses, and tulips in the famous flower-market outside the Madeleine.

    Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

  • Your small house, flat or bungalow require modest garden flowers such as daffodils, jonquils, tulips, lilies-of-the-valley, snapdragons, one long-stemmed rose in a vase, or a cluster of shy moss-buds or nodding tea-roses.

    The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

  • It would need a floral catalogue to give you the names of _all_ the varieties which bloom upon the calico, but, judging by the shapes, which really are much like the originals, I can swear to moss-roses, Burgundies, York and Lancaster, tea-roses, and multifloras.

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

  • I dared not yet think; I rested my head against the chair, and breathed in the odor of the flowers: the delicate scent of tea-roses; the Southern perfume, fiery and sweet, like Greek wine, of profuse heliotropes, -- a perfume that gives you thirst, and longing, and regret.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • On a little shelf under the window, stood a bird cage sheltered by a miniature forest of tea-roses and ivy geraniums.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

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