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Honeysuckle

noun

Shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera.

Shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers. Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia.

Columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers. Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house.

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"Honeysuckle" Quotes from Famous Books

... before a low wooden gate, and looking out of the window of the fly, Miss Lovel saw a cottage which she remembered as a dreary uninhabited place, always to let; a cottage with a weedy garden, and a luxuriant growth of monthly roses and honeysuckle covering it from basement to roof; not a bad sort of place for a person of small means and pretensions, but O, what a descent from the ancient splendour of Arden Court!—that Arden which had belonged to the ...

— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon

... bedridden pauper, and the Major had time for his forty winks, while Betty, though her heart throbbed hard beneath her tightly-laced boddice, composed herself to hear Eugene's catechism, and the two sisters, each with a good book, slipped out to the honeysuckle arbour in the garden behind the house. Harriet had Sherlock in Death, her regular Sunday study, though she never got any further than the apparition of Mrs. Veal, over which she gloated in a dreamy state; Aurelia's ...

— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... felt that he would starve to death, and wondered dreamily if Hirschvogel would care. Yes, he was sure Hirschvogel would care. Had he not decked it all summer long with Alpine roses and edelweiss and heaths and made it sweet with thyme and honeysuckle and great garden-lilies? Had he ever forgotten when Santa Claus came to make it its crown of holly and ivy and wreathe it ...

— The Nuernberg Stove • Louisa de la Rame (AKA Ouida)

... June on the rancho Windham. Roses and honeysuckle climbed the pillars and lattices of the patio; lupin and golden poppies dotted the hillsides. Cloud-plumes waved across the faultless azure of a California summer sky and distant to the north and east, a million spangled flecks of ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... [5546] "Thou honeysuckle of the hawthorn hedge, Vouchsafe in Cupid's cup my heart to pledge; My heart's dear blood, sweet Cis is thy carouse Worth all the ale in Gammer Gubbin's house. I say no more, affairs call me away, My father's horse for provender doth stay. Be thou ...

— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

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