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  • She pointed to a little wheeled machine weeding a rosebed with delicate tendrils.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • Then he went to the rosebed where Percy is buried and did a nice big pee on top of him!

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • The two little lawns looked as if they had not been cut for a month and there were weeds coming up in the rosebed.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

  • That poor little rosebed in my yard at home; it's just begun to brighten up.

    The Gibson Upright Booth Tarkington 1907

  • From the walls and windows sculptured saints and angels look down with an air of gentle approbation on the scene, and in the very middle a little bishop raises his hand in benediction over pious strangers from the centre of a rosebed.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • He was appointed, it would seem, to be the thorn in your rosebed of Anjou.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • In very truth, "our Blessed Father continued," the worldling may notice in the rosebed of religion only the loveliness of the flowers, and the sweetness of their perfume, but these conceal many

    The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Jean Pierre Camus 1618

  • I couldn't credit it - not Black Joe, the shrewdest, wickedest, best-read nigger in Dixie, whose slavery had been a rosebed compared to anything he could hope for as a free man?

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • I couldn't credit it - not Black Joe, the shrewdest, wickedest, best-read nigger in Dixie, whose slavery had been a rosebed compared to anything he could hope for as a free man?

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • I couldn't credit it - not Black Joe, the shrewdest, wickedest, best-read nigger in Dixie, whose slavery had been a rosebed compared to anything he could hope for as a free man?

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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