"Rosemary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... take my choice of all the world I believe a little jar of rosemary like that which bloomed in my mother's window when I was a little girl would please me better ...
— The Story-teller • Maud Lindsay
... for I meet few but are stuck with Rosemary: everyone ask'd mee who was married to-day, and I told 'em Adultery and Repentance, and that shame and a ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... the fancy of that French poet who desired that in his garden one might, in gathering a nosegay, cull a salad, for they boasted little else than sweet basil, small and white, and some tall grey rosemary bushes. Nearer to the door an unusually large oleander faced a strong and sturdy magnolia-tree, and these, with their profusion of red and white sweetness, made amends for the dearth of garden flowers. At either end of the terrace flourished a thicket of gum-cistus, ...
— Tales from Many Sources - Vol. V • Various
... pretty Tarascon hillocks are very tempting, perfumed with myrtle, lavender, and rosemary; and these fine muscat grapes, swollen with sweetness, which grow by the side of the Rhone, extremely appetising too—yes, but there is Tarascon behind, and in the little world of fur and feather Tarascon has an evil fame. The birds of passage themselves ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... Dashall, "well known, and no doubt you have often heard of—Sparrow Corner and Rosemary Lane are better known by the appellation of Rag Fair. It is a general mart for the sale of second-hand clothes, and many a well-looking man in London is indebted to his occasional rambles in this quarter for his appearance. The business of this place is conducted with great regularity, and the ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
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