peach-blossom

A few frogs sang in the sun, and birds sang in the trees; but no sign of a peach-blossom yet, and not even the magnolias and Pyrus Japonica have started.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

A few frogs sang in the sun, and birds sang in the trees; but no sign of a peach-blossom yet, and not even the magnolias and Pyrus Japonica have started.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Old Mr. Donnithorne, the delicately clean, finely scented, withered old man, led out Miss Irwine, with his air of punctilious, acid politeness; Mr. Gawaine brought Miss Lydia, looking neutral and stiff in an elegant peach-blossom silk; and Mr. Irwine came last with his pale sister Anne.

Adam Bede 2004

And I said to the flunkey in peach-blossom trousers, ‘Admit me, sirrah,’ and he led me along corridors piled with purple till I came to a door, a mahogany door, and knocked; and a voice said,

The Years 2004

It was a warmish day, and there was a sort of peach-blossom colour on her cheeks that looked as delicate as if a breath of air would blow it away.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

On the two sides, stood one of a pair of small teapoys of foreign lacquer of peach-blossom pattern.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

The colours of the pale rock-skeleton are so faint that there is nothing to interfere with the perfect development of atmospheric effects: it is a white sheet spread to catch the grand illumination, lambent lights of saffron and peach-blossom and shades of purple and hyacinth.

The Land of Midian 2003

Finishing her song, she drank the “opening cup,” after which she added: “the delicate peach-blossom,” and thus complied with the exigencies of the rule.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

The pillars were of green marble, and the pavement of a kind of peach-blossom marble.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

The pillars were of green marble, and the pavement of a kind of peach-blossom marble.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998