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Example sentences for "azalea"

  • The same moment a great draught of wind, rising from depths of the valley below, swept overhead with a roaring sound, shaking the beech and box trees and setting all the golden azalea heads in a sudden agitation.

  • While, in and out of all this splendor, less dense and voluminous only than the rhododendron forests, ran scattered lines of blazing yellow--the crowding clusters of azalea bushes that scented the winds beyond belief.

  • We cannot assign any cause why the Pontic Azalea produces plenty of pollen and not American{75}, why common lilac seeds and not Persian, we see no difference in healthiness.

  • The genus Azalea may be divided into three kinds, viz.

  • These Azaleas are all very handsome, but the white Indian Azalea (A.

  • Loiseleuria, or Azalea procumbens, is a small plant, having the appearance of thyme, which is the only species left in the genus Azalea by those botanists who include the true Azaleas in the genus Rhododendron.

  • All the species of Azalea have five stamens, but some of the varieties have ten.

  • An azalea in a blue and white pot had stood between them, and in this plant Mrs. Pendyce buried her cheeks and eyes; but when she raised her face her eyebrows were lifted to their utmost limit, her lips trembled with anger.

  • When he went in, Sylvia was just placing the white azalea in the window of the drawing-room; and stealing up behind her he clasped the little necklet round her throat.

  • And in order that the azalea might arrive first, he walked up and down the Square which he and Oliver had patrolled the night before.

  • A wave of the azalea scent drifted into June's face; she felt sick and dizzy.

  • The pretty potted azalea in her hand would be excuse for her entrance into the room.

  • Why-good morning, Miss Neilson," murmured Miss Greggory with a smile so forced that her mother hurriedly looked to the azalea in search of a possible peacemaker.

  • Plants are multiplied by either grafting or budding them on the common stock; it is almost impossible to raise plants from cuttings; they are slower than the Azalea to take root.

  • The Azalea will flourish best with a rich, mucky loam, a rather shady locality, and an abundance of water.

  • Azalea Adair looked paler and cleaner and frailer than she had looked on the day before.

  • Azalea Adair and I had conversation, a little of which will be repeated to you.

  • And then I looked at the contract and saw that she had signed it "Azalea Adair Caswell.

  • Azalea Adair opened a tiny, worn purse and drew out a dollar bill, a dollar bill with the upper right-hand corner missing, torn in two pieces, and pasted together again with a strip of blue tissue paper.

  • I could perceive clearly that Azalea Adair was very poor.

  • I looked in my memorandum book for the address of Azalea Adair.

  • When the milk and wine had been brought the doctor soon revived Azalea Adair.

  • Azalea Adair breathed a soft apology and went to investigate the sound.

  • After I was well on my way I remembered that I had not learned Azalea Adair's name.

  • I was traveling elsewhere on my own business, but I had a commission from a Northern literary magazine to stop over there and establish a personal connection between the publication and one of its contributors, Azalea Adair.

  • I told him that it was within my power and intentions to make a reasonable advance of money to Azalea Adair on future contributions to the magazine, and he seemed pleased.

  • The caterpillar, which feeds upon Azalea occidentalis, is described and figured by Edwards in "The Butterflies of North America," vol.

  • Then they led her through the gardens, which seemed all a maze of rose, of yellow, and of white from the innumerable thickets of azalea which were in bloom.

  • Bessy, the little heroine of the azalea wreath and my first party, murmured shyly that she hoped the furniture was placed right and that the dinner would be good.

  • There were no violets left, and while I waited for a sheaf of pink roses, with my eyes on the elaborate funeral designs covering the counter, I heard a voice speaking in a low tone beyond a mass of flowering azalea beside which I stood.

  • The pretty girl, with the crown of azalea hanging awry on her flaxen tresses, and her flounce of pink tarlatan held disconsolately in her hand, looked for one dreadful instant as if she were about to burst into tears.

  • A single spray of rose azalea in a pure white vase hanging on one of the polished posts, and a single iris in another, are the only decorations.

  • One knee bore a splash of mud, and his tumbled hair was sprinkled with azalea blossoms.

  • A wood-path of wild heath cut short winds through the planted group, which also comprises some of the beautiful white-flowered Californian Azalea occidentalis, and bushes of some of the North American Vacciniums.

  • My second example is that of Azalea indica.

  • The yellow blossoms of this fine azalea impart an unwonted brilliance to large patches of the Pilawin forest in spring.

  • Her soul looked out of her eyes while she gazed over the azalea in her hand--yet, in spite of the songs of the poets, the soul in her eyes did not make them beautiful.

  • A red-winged blackbird darted like a flame across the path in front of her, and following it into the open, she found Kesiah gathering wild azalea on the edge of the thicket.

  • But Mr. Parsons looked in vain for any sign of the racing plate which had attracted his attention upon his first visit to Azalea Lodge.

  • Azalea Lodge was the one luxury that his lordship permitted himself; he looked upon it as his home, and the titular mistress of Azalea Lodge had been the original cause of all his differences with his father.

  • A fortnight afterwards Azalea Lodge was in the hands of an auctioneer.

  • I verily believe had the inhabitants of Azalea Lodge not both been members of the cultured classes that murder would have been done.

  • When, in the early morning, the housemaid at Azalea Lodge found her pantry door unlocked, she was alarmed; and when she saw that the window was open and that one of the protecting iron bars had been wrenched aside, she very nearly fainted.

  • When he made his great fiasco with Dark Despair, and the execution was already in Azalea Lodge, by an impulse of generosity the lady had driven over to Messrs.

  • Lord Hetton yawned, he looked at his watch, and then he stamped the letters and laid them out for posting, but circumstances intervened which caused those two letters not to leave Azalea Lodge.

  • On the floor lay the murdered master of Azalea Lodge.

  • In half-an-hour he was sound asleep, and a dead silence reigned in Azalea Lodge.

  • It has been stated that the temper of the mistress of Azalea Lodge was almost diabolical; there was nothing the pair didn't quarrel over.

  • He found that Azalea Lodge was occupied by Lord Hetton; the name seemed familiar to him; he turned to the landlord, who was a well-known sporting character, and sought for information.

  • Mr. Haggard had had a rather painful interview with a lady dressed in deep mourning in the dining-room of Azalea Lodge, on the morning of the removal of his lordship's body.

  • Some botanists unite the genus azalea to rhododendron.

  • In one of the closest, most filthy courts we see, in a garret window, a white azalea full of flowers, pure as the untrodden snow.

  • Surely we have even now seen the white azalea in the garret.


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