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Definition of Lilacs
1. lilac [n] - See also: lilac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lilacs
Literary usage of Lilacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"t We will pass to the Varin lilacs. So many names have been given to these that we
... In France they are commonly called Varin lilacs, and often, in error, ..."
2. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1922)
"lilacs AMY LOWELL lilacs, False blue, White, Purple, Color of lilac, 5 Your great
puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my
Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. 821 WHEN lilacs LAST IN THE ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"WHEN lilacs LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D' WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,
And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, ..."
5. Bugle-echoes: A Collection of Poems of the Civil War, Northern and Southern by Francis Fisher Browne (1886)
"WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop 'd in
the western sky in the night, I mourn 'd, and yet shall mourn with ..."
6. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"(1861.) Exult O shores, and ring O bells ! But I with mournful tread, Walk the
deck my Captain lies,6 Fallen cold and dead. 1865. WHEN lilacs LAST IN ..."
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