Evergreens
['ɛvɚ,grin]
Examples
- At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens were the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A mass of shrubs, full-leaved evergreens, laurel and dense yewintervened between me and what I followed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As they approached it, a figure, conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens, was seated on a bench, sketching the old tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He must think of low-growing evergreens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I am so glad to see the evergreens thrive! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I should not like to try the experiment; for, in truth, mamma, you are the most unfading of evergreens and the freshest of matrons. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The rain fell heavily on the roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens and the leafless branches of the trees. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Sasha