Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosebays
Literary usage of Rosebays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the by John Ray, Edwin Lankester (1848)
"... or Swallow-worts, and Neria, or rosebays, which three he reduces to one ...
or rosebays, double, and that the Neria are shrubby, or arborescent plants, ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... the few trees which inhabit them being deciduous, while the laurels and rosebays
gave the deep and narrow vallies the luxuriant verdure of spring. ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... the few trees which inhabit them being deciduous, while the laurels and rosebays
gave the deep and narrow vallies the luxuriant verdure of spring. ..."
4. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"... dashed through a wall of rosebays that hedged it in, and the next moment
plunged into the river, swimming his horse right towards the opposite mountain. ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1862)
"The total number of evergreen and persistent-leaved rosebays, according to G.
Don, is 26 species, while the Hortus Britannicus enumerates 33. ..."
6. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"... it is the opinion of Dr. Lindley that the kind is more nearly allied by the
form of its flowers to E. politician than the bell- flowered rosebays. ..."
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