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  • When Beauty's father first comes to the Beast's garden, he notices "that no snow had fallen on the avenue , which was entirely composed of orange-trees, covered with flowers and fruit" 109.

    Beauty and the Beast Theodora Goss 2008

  • To walk by the blossoming orange-trees, to live a few months in the bosom of that glorious scenery! —

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • The _gleam_ of white marble statues, from among the clumps of orange-trees and other shrubs, was particularly pretty; indeed, the whole had a fairy-like appearance about it.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • There is an alcove at one end of the apartment, filled with orange-trees, and the air is kept refreshingly cool by a crystal fountain.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • This imposing and noble edifice is approached by a wide avenue of four rows of venerable elms, from which the visitor enters an immense rising court-yard, like that at Versailles, with magnificent iron railings and two lodges, and adorned with rows of large orange-trees in their tubs.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • It stands on a height within the walls of Genoa, but aloof from the town: surrounded by beautiful gardens of its own, adorned with statues, vases, fountains, marble basins, terraces, walks of orange-trees and lemon-trees, groves of roses and camellias.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • Pangloss, Candide, and Martin, as they were returning to the little farm, met with a good-looking old man, who was taking the air at his door, under an alcove formed of the boughs of orange-trees.

    Candide 2007

  • To walk by the blossoming orange-trees, to live a few months in the bosom of that glorious scenery! —

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • The windows of their painting-room looked into a quaint old garden, where there were ancient statues of the Imperial time, a babbling fountain and noble orange-trees with broad clustering leaves and golden balls of fruit, glorious to look upon.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Before the palace of Lenoir there is a grove of orange-trees in tubs, which

    The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006

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