Her lips are roses wat wi' dew, O, what a feast her bonnie mou'!
You're well enough, but you aren't half as pretty as a rose, or half as tall as a tree, and there are thousands of trees and roses in the world.
Mary marvelled at the prettiness of the red-brick farmhouses, with roses and honeysuckle to their eaves.
Get some roses in your cheeks, little girl, before you come back to us.
First they went round the gardens, where the boy picked some roses and made them into a little bunch for Mary.
Nelly had to be much out-of-doors, as the dogs were clamorous for walks, and she kept her roses in London with the old milkmaid sweetness.
They had begun to drop their blossoms on the pavements, making a dust of roses in London streets.
Yet he was miserable, watching furtively her dimmed roses and the circles about her eyes.
The little house was quite near the railway, a gabled, two-storied cottage with diamond-paned windows, and creepers and roses all over its walls.
And roses could not have been sweeter than the atmosphere.
He wouldn't have Nelly's roses spoilt, and the young needed their proper amount of sleep.
It is a big, old-fashioned house, and there is a lovely garden, full of roses and lilies, and phlox and stocks and hollyhocks and mignonette and sweet peas.
He saw that her roses had faded, that she walked without the old joyous spring.
He wished Nell could have been with him to have the roses blown in her cheeks by the delicious fresh wind.
She put down her basket of roses and took Nelly's hands between hers.
She had worn for the first time her white silk frock with the roses on it and she had seen in many eyes how well it became her.
XXV ROSES OF JOY The day before Rebecca started for the South with Miss Maxwell she was in the library with Emma Jane and Huldah, consulting dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
It was of white chip with a wreath of cheap white roses and green leaves, and cost between two and three dollars, an unprecedented sum in Rebecca's experience.
Let us scatter these spiritual roses plentifully over the graves of our departed parents and friends.
Billows of roses surged over old pink and yellow stucco walls, or a soaring flame of scarlet geranium ran along their tops devouring trails of ivy with a hundred fiery tongues.
He said over and over again, through the white hours perfumed withroses and flooded with moonlight: "Do look, do look!
It was a wonderful, luminous kind of darkness, though, that hadn't forgotten the sunset, and the white mountains were great banks of roses against a skyful of fading violets.
Roses and lilies appeared on my writing-desk; they were from him.
It was like driving through a succession of gardens: roseswere hanging over the fences in the richest profusion, and the arbor-vitae was ornamenting every little nook, and adorning every cottage.
Little tables were spread under the dome, around the big telescope; the flowers were roses from Miss Mitchell's own garden.
It journeys till it 'lights within a court Where roses riot o'er veined-marble walls, Where peacocks strut along the broad white steps, Or over broideries by fair hands wrought.
SAADI AND THE ROSE O summer, with thy magic gift of flowers And soft bird voices, musicking the breeze, While yet thy roses stir the lazy air My soul wings back thro' centuries, as hours.
I thank Thee for the lovely spring, And for Thy little birds that sing; I thank Thee for the summer's sun, When 'mong the roses I can run.
Dip the roses in the red invisible ink, the jonquilles in the yellow, the pinks in the violet, and the leaves in the green ink.
Downstairs it was wildroses and honeysuckle, with mugs of red clover on the mantelpieces.
And then in the border all round the garden by the fences, we have standard rosesabout a couple of yards apart, and a row of scarlet geraniums.
Pale privet-petals white as milk Are blown into a snowy mass: The roses lie upon the grass Like little shreds of crimson silk.
It is thy new-found Lord, and he shall kiss The yet unravished roses of thy mouth, And I shall weep and worship, as before.
For you a House of Ivory, (Roses are white in the rose-bower)!
Red roses are at her feet, (Roses are red in her red-gold hair) And O where her bosom and girdle meet Red roses are hidden there.
Her little lips, more made to kiss Than to cry bitterly for pain, Are tremulous as brook-water is, Or roses after evening rain.
O it were meet To roll the stone from off the sepulchre And kiss the bleeding roses of their wounds, in love of her, Our Italy!
Life cannot always be bright, Clouds must come as well as light; Sweetest of roses have many thorns, So has life many a form.
Life is adorned with many roses, Many fashions and many forms; So be careful in your plucking, For among the roses are many thorns.
The roses bring sweet fragrance, And twilight brings the dew; The birds sing songs of gladness, Ah!
The roses were blowing, like whales in the sea Where the apple-bloom icebergs plunged fearless and free, And the larks carolled madly their high jubilee In the ether.
This is the first day of summer; the oak leaves expand, the roses blow, butterflies are on the wing, and I have spirits enough to write to you.
Roses of white marble and wreaths of palm-branches, most exquisitely sculptured, enrich every part of the edifice.
The more she said, the fiercer clung The stinging garment of his wrath; And this was all before the day When Time tossed roses in his path.
The rosesmay have ruined him, They may have kept him out of prison.
When the roses fall upon the gashes of those who fight for humanity they become medicines that heal all wounds.
From time to time the illustrious souls, redeemed out of the body, pluck the red roses from the tree of life, and fling them down upon those who are struggling on the plains.
When the roses fall upon the arms of the enemies of liberty they turn to coals of fire, that burn the hands of tyrants and make them drop the sword unsheathed to promote oppression.
They used to sit in the sunny window seat; and he would lean over the sill to pluck the roses that blew beneath.
And you, beautiful women and fine gentlemen, roses and carnations of an older century, nothing remains of you for us.
The Great little Man jumped up as red as one of the big chintz roses that bloomed so prodigally all over his winged chair.
Had he met grey-eyed Athene, or beheld theroses and doves of Cytherea, the day would scarcely have held a more splendid memory.
Perhaps I regard women too much as roses that bloom, scatter their sweets and die.
The picture of the girl with roses became his mother as he had known her, pale and sad.
Presently I step indoors, light a tall wax candle set in a silver candlestick, go sedately to bed and fall asleep to the perfume of roses and jasmine and the echo of a cadence from the Anatomy of Melancholy.
He found the Beau seated among the roses of his wide-winged armchair sipping what looked uncommonly like a cordial physick.
Doertje, with fresh roses on her lips and cheeks, started up suddenly from the sofa, and, breaking into a convulsive laughter, skipt about the chamber.
Girls, I have seen you gather up your roses from their vases at night and fold them away in damp paper to protect their loveliness for another day.
What rosesare with worms in the bud, such are women without health.
He felt sure of a favorable reply and that Bessie would be his before the June roses were in bloom, and that of itself kept him in a happy frame of mind.
Just across the room, by an open window, sat Lady Jane, pretending to rearrange a bowl of roses on the table near her, but listening intently to the conversation between the two brothers.
Your life shall be one long rest, in the loveliest place you ever saw, and we will all care for you so tenderly, and bring the roses back to the dear face Sir Jack says is now so pale.
The broad gravel walk was clean and smooth, and the straight borders beside it were full of summer flowers, among which roses were conspicuous.
He shall live with us, and Anthony and Dorothy too; though not here at Stoneleigh, except it be in the summer when the roses are in bloom.
In her linen dress, which she bought with money paid her for rosesby the ladies who frequented the "George," she felt pure and respectable.
Mr. Sanford there, cozily taking tea in the pleasant south room, where the morning-glories were trained across the windows, and the early June roses were looking in.
I had pictured la belle France as a country of wine, of roses and of happy people.
His speech was suited to my actions, for, like a fool, I had already dropped upon my knees, busied about picking up the scattered roses and replacing them in the vases from which they had fallen.
There is some sort of a confused recollection now abiding with me, that a man-servant at length came to sweep up the fragments, while I watched him vacantly, a tangled bunch of roses in my hand.
So, when some dear joy loses Its beauteous summer glow, Think how the roots of the roses Are kept alive in the snow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
