'A thing called
White Roses, by a woman named Edith Butler.'
It was of white chip with a wreath of cheap
white roses and green leaves, and cost between two and three dollars, an unprecedented sum in Rebecca's experience.
The pink roses are love hopeful and expectant--the
white roses are love dead or forsaken--but the red roses--ah, Leslie, what are the red roses?"
I'm to have a wreath of
white roses on my hair and Ruby Gillis is going to lend me her slippers because I haven't any of my own.
And anon the fire went out, and those branches that were burning became red roses, and those branches that were not kindled became
white roses. And those were the first roses and rose-trees that any man saw.
But--whether it were the
white roses, or whatever the subtile influence might be--a person of delicate instinct would have known at once that it was now a maiden's bedchamber, and had been purified of all former evil and sorrow by her sweet breath and happy thoughts.
She was reading "Isabella and the Pot of Basil," and her mind was full of the Italian hills and the blue daylight, and the hedges set with little rosettes of red and
white roses. Feeling that her father waited for her, she sighed and said, shutting her book:
He gathered an impression of a gleaming white neck and bosom rising and falling rather more quickly than was natural, eyes which shone softly through the gloom, and the perfume of
white roses, a great cluster of which lay upon the box ledge.
That's a sweet pretty bed of
white roses and blush roses.
"She is like a
white rose!" they cried, and they threw down flowers on her from the balconies.
It was the arm of a Saxon goddess; but no immortal had that exquisite, homely naturalness; and Philip thought of a cottage garden with the dear flowers which bloom in all men's hearts, of the hollyhock and the red and
white rose which is called York and Lancaster, and of love--in-a-mist and Sweet William, and honeysuckle, larkspur, and London Pride.
Suddenly a towering wall of
white rose directly in our path, and though I threw the helm hard over, and reversed our engine, I was too late to avoid collision.