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  • noun Plural form of rosemary.

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Examples

  • I, too, envy you your path, and your marvelous perennial rosemaries, and even your rat snake feel free to send it up here.

    Photographing The Blue Chairs « Fairegarden 2009

  • The two rosemaries at each side of the slope give some winter interest.

    Rosemary « Fairegarden 2007

  • The junipers, the rosemaries, the prickly holly bushes, climbed higher and battered the walls with irresistible blows; and even the grass, the grass whose dry blades slipped beneath the great door, stiffened itself into steel-like spears and made its way down the nave, where it forced up the flagstones with powerful levers.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • Let us go every evening, step by step, from one border of tall rosemaries to the next.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • The Banded and the Silky Epeira, both of whom live on the rosemaries in the enclosure, shall show us in broad day-light the innermost details of the tragedy.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • I rear some young Philanthus-grubs, already waxing large; but, instead of supplying them with the prey taken from the burrows, I give them game of my own catching, game replete with nectar from the rosemaries.

    More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • We inspect the stunted rosemaries along the edge of a path sheltered by a rocky, wooded slope; we lift the branches that spread over the ground.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • One half remained in my study, under a wire-gauze cover, with, small bunches of brushwood as supports; the other half were experiencing the vicissitudes of open-air life on the rosemaries in the enclosure.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • While the new inhabitants are twisting their ropes on the rosemaries in the enclosure, one evening, by the last gleams of twilight, I discover a splendid

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • When exposed to the full force of the sun, however, on the rosemaries in the enclosure, the balloons burst and shoot forth a ruddy flood of floss and tiny animals.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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