| 单词 | privet hedge |
| 例句 | It is out there in the privet hedge that lines the avenue. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A blackbird dropped down onto a privet hedge and, finding no satisfactory foothold, flew away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Outside the sun hung low over the privet hedges. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They planted it with trees—hazel, alder, birch, and dogwood—as well as privet hedges and holly bushes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We rumble past privet hedges and under topiary arches to arrive at secluded lakefront homes where girls wait with satchels, standing very straight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The stucco front, the creosoted gate, the privet hedge, the green front door. Sound of the suburbs 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z In a poem called “Apology” she writes: I thought you were born to privilege, some inherited advantage — like an estate framed in privet hedge, or a better-feathered shuttlecock for badinage, or other French pretensions. Books of The Times: Stealthy Insights Amid Short Phrases 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z If you don’t get out of Tucson, eat at Café Poca Cosa, whose Mexican-inspired menu changes daily, or the Arizona Inn, a gracious old hotel of pink adobe and privet hedges. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z Behind the privet hedge, besides the daffodils There’s pansies, thyme, and rosemary. Our Year in Poems 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z “We set out to lower the wall and the privet hedges,” Ms. Wetenhall added, “and now people say we’re like a club without dues.” Palm Beach Gets a Younger Groove 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z He won't suddenly moonwalk past a privet hedge, say, or disrupt a violin recital by blowing off in the punch bowl. Agatha Christie's Poirot: time to bid adieu 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z One of the auction staff described how "the privet hedge was left bare of every leaf because the people who attended wanted to say to their friends they had something from the house". Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover's crime 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z I discovered gardening and cut down the privet hedge, because I read you could rejuvenate it. Why gardening offers a ‘psychological lifeline’ in times of crisis 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Ms Hedges-Stocks admitted she knew more about privet hedges than speculating on the stock market. GameStop frenzy prompts Hedges-Stocks viral surname mix-up 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z On the morning of 29 May 2008 a park ranger discovered a woman's body behind a privet hedge in the middle of Queen's Park, Glasgow. Diary of my daughter's murder: 'We were in hell on earth' 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z I now find myself entranced by all the different varieties of privet hedge, intrigued by people’s choice of gravel size and paving pattern, captivated by the clusters of cacti perched on windowsills. Museum of Covid-19: the story of the crisis told through everyday objects 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z The old garden was a dull confection of clipped privet hedges, and the narrow steps connecting it to the president’s office were an awkward spot for addressing crowds. Irvin Williams, White House gardener who made Rose Garden bloom, dies at 92 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z So he kept the stacked-stone walls and Chinese elm, trimmed the privet hedge, added boxwood, then replaced a neglected lawn and overgrown shrubs with sedums, echeverias, aeoniums and agaves mulched with gravel. Looking for drought-garden inspiration? This L.A.-area tour is for you 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Baby Doe had played among the pines and oaks of New England; she was dusted with traces of privet hedges and cedar-of-Lebanon, which are not native but are often planted in the suburbs. Detectives try to ID little girl left dead on Deer Island 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Castillo is part of the largely unseen, mostly Latino, workforce toiling all summer clearing plates in the restaurants, scrubbing the mansions and maintaining their privet hedges. The workers catering to the Hamptons' super-rich: 'This is not paradise for me' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The backyard privacy so typical of Greenwich, enforced by privet hedges, is notably absent. | Cos Cob, Conn.: Cos Cob, Conn./Living In: A Stroll or Sail Away From Anywhere 2012-04-07T03:17:17Z Like snickering truants they skirted the balustrade, the shadowy privet hedge, the masses of juniper and bay and box, till they reached the point where the winding stairway dropped down between its high brick walls. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z A brick path, damp and faintly green with moss, ran down to a green gate set in a ragged privet hedge that was always dusty and choked with dead twigs. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z The gate in the privet hedge of The Witan had had little rest all the afternoon. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Between two clipped privet hedges now; we will close our eyes for life's sake to life's patches. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z A few miles west, where Hamptons lanes are lined with Bentleys and Maseratis and high privet hedges, that amount might buy one person one lobster dinner with a nice bottle of local white. Dot Earth Blog: On the Merits of Parks and Bluefish 2011-08-19T21:36:03Z No changes had been made in its exterior, everything was exactly as when I saw it last, even to the peculiar scrimpiness about the piece of privet hedge beside the gate. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z Beyond the garden there were the meadows, only separated from Mr. Raymond's lawn by a low privet hedge; and beyond the meadows the roofs and chimneys of Conventford loomed darkly in the distance. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z From the window she could see over the privet hedge and down the road, but there was no sign of Edgar yet. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z It was a bright little tight little garden, with flower borders round a square lawn, and ground for vegetables beyond a privet hedge. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z The larv�, however, are to be met with in abundance in privet hedges. Butterflies and Moths (British) Nor did she hear a sound from that direction as she passed out through the trimly cut privet hedge and took the shell walk to the boathouse. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway The August afternoon was very hot; no wind ruffled the quiet blue-green water; there were no waves; the leaves of the privet hedge upon the side of the cliffs were motionless. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath Then she descended again, opened the front door, closed it softly behind her again, passed through the door in the privet hedge, and walked out on to the dark Heath. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z "For goodness sake don't screech like that," Reggie reproved her, with an apprehensive glance at the thick privet hedge that separated his mother's premises from those next door. A Traitor's Wooing Even in the centres of large towns we may see them resting on the topmost twigs of a privet hedge, their beautiful green tint closely resembling that of the surrounding leaves. Butterflies and Moths (British) The winding lane led through the trees to the house and on either side were rows of tall, uncut privet hedge. Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery They stood together, perhaps a dozen seconds, watching the capricious scraps of colour rise, float over the privet hedge on balanced wings, dip abruptly down and vanish on the farther side below the cliff. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath The cart drew on to the left; Lady Tasker trailed after it; and suddenly it stopped before a high privet hedge with a closed green door in the middle of it. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z A belated peasant might be on his way home by the lane that skirted the privet hedge. Bye-Ways The road here drew in its shoulders, and crept through between the landward extremity of the mill and a little garden enclosure, with a small house and a large signboard within its privet hedge. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Gathering it up again was hopeless, and it made such a mess on the gravel-walk, that the old woman was thankful her misfortune happened behind the privet hedge, where nobody was likely to come. The Adventures of A Brownie As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock There she stayed till it was dark, in a favourite place—a circular garden of her contriving, with a pond, and a golden privet hedge, so arranged as to throw yellow reflections in the water. Love and Lucy She made a charming picture as she walked slowly the length of the privet hedge and then turned towards the copper beech again. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z One winter's day Hugh Fraser, Kate, and I, in our walk, passed along the lane by the now ragged privet hedge through which I had so often observed the doctor's agonies. Bye-Ways A homely garden, where berries and roses grew together and privet hedges sheltered peas and lettuce, and tulips and wall-flowers did not disdain the proximity of household vegetables. An Orkney Maid The tiny lawn was smooth as velvet, and a row of tall white lilies, flanked with fragrant lavender, filled up the one narrow bed that ran by the side of the privet hedge. Lover or Friend He was never tired of digging and planting and watering the long strip at the back, or of clipping the privet hedge that screened his green mat at the front. The Combined Maze The copper beech, the high privet hedge and the willows beyond it, shut out both light and air. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z I looked over the privet hedge, seeing only the rank and frost-bitten grass, the wild bushes and narrow mossy paths. Bye-Ways They were sitting out in the garden after dinner, on that comfortable seat by the privet hedge which Beth overlooked from her secret chamber. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius A winding driveway between privet hedges, led up from the main road half a mile away, through a maze of giant forest trees amid which the place was set. In Her Own Right The privet hedge surrounding this oasis proved to be very thin and there were no convenient little bushes. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany A blackbird broke into a whistle in the privet hedge and brought her heart to her mouth. The Tragic Bride The doctor's hall door banged, and, peering through the privet hedge that protected his meagre domain, I perceived him come out into the air bareheaded. Bye-Ways We pushed through a little gap in the privet hedge and found ourselves under the acacia tree with Miss Ponsonby peering anxiously at us from above. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Oh! by the way, Miss Wilson, we wondered if you would mind our man coming in one day to dig up the privet hedge? The Privet Hedge Walter, however, did not wait to hear the virtues and vices of privet hedges discussed. Walter and the Wireless Very cautiously she cut across to the left and into the shelter of the privet hedge, along which she stole until she reached their level. The Tragic Bride She sat at the open window, seeing only the high, green privet hedge that enclosed the front garden, the little wicket-gate, and the blue sky beyond. Olive A Novel He pointed to a well-trimmed privet hedge in a front garden opposite. Salthaven Then they went down the drive, leaving her there in the doorway staring at the privet hedge. The Privet Hedge We could hear the buggy boys just beyond the tall privet hedge. We Three She could bear it no longer, but turned and groped her way back along the privet hedge to the door from which she had first come. The Tragic Bride In front was the neatest of neat little gardens, surrounded by a well-clipped privet hedge, and the greenest of green gates. Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea “Papa,” it would be, “did you give orders for that beautiful privet hedge to be cut down!” Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel When she reached the open road and was free from the heavy shadow of the privet hedge, she felt her self-confidence gradually coming back to her. The Privet Hedge In front and to one side, Tessibel's new privet hedge shone a dark, dusky green, and the flower beds were beginning to show orderly life through the blackish mold. The Secret of the Storm Country The houses are fancifully painted, and half hidden behind a privet hedge and a row of elms. Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London Meanwhile Captain Runacles, who watched these operations from the other side of the privet hedge and picked up many scraps of rumour from the antique Simeon, was consumed with scorn and envy. The Blue Pavilions His stands on a small brick foundation, a few feet behind a privet hedge in front, with a brick wall along the side in which he has cemented a few huge conch shells. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives Before those new houses came, you need not see anything beyond the privet hedge unless you wished—— But now the outside was close upon her. The Privet Hedge Brilliant moonlight bathed the little lawn with its bordering of high privet hedges. The Golden Scorpion Already crocuses, mauve, white, and yellow, glimmered along a dripping privet hedge which crowned the brick and granite wall bounding the domain of Seagrave. The Danger Mark Tristram, who was supposed to be at work clipping the privet hedge around the apiarium, was engaged in the summer-house, at the far end of it, upon business of his own. The Blue Pavilions But listen,—a clipped privet hedge, bluestone drive, flower gardens, and a perfectly good double-breasted mansion standin' back among the trees. On With Torchy Mrs. Bradford, waiting for her lunch, also looked at the wheel-marks left by the passing of the workman's barrow over the place where the privet hedge used to be. The Privet Hedge Stuart ran across the room, jerked open the curtains and stared out across the moon-bathed lawn, its prospect terminated by high privet hedges. The Golden Scorpion This path, bordered on each side by high privet hedges of the most beautiful green, soon brought them to a stile. Jack Sheppard A Romance Nor, though thirsty, did he turn aside to the porch of the Fish and Anchor Inn; but kept along the privet hedge until he came to the second blue gate. The Blue Pavilions Had he scaled the privet hedge in the night, and robbed the garden of its cabbages? Verner's Pride The three coming up the path; the clear sky; the man with the barrow wheeling cement over the forlorn dismantled part of the garden where the privet hedge had been. The Privet Hedge A slight breeze had arisen and it rustled in the feathery foliage of the acacias and made a whispering sound as it stirred the leaves of the privet hedge. The Golden Scorpion A small flower-bed intervened between the path and the high privet hedge. The Green Eyes of Bâst Directly opposite, the two blue roofs ranged themselves side by side, with long strips of garden and a thick privet hedge between them and the road. The Blue Pavilions Professor Kelton's house was guarded on all sides by trees and shrubbery, and a tall privet hedge shut it off from the Lane. A Hoosier Chronicle But at last they reached the gate of the Cottage, and as they walked up the drive they saw that a man was at work taking up the privet hedge. The Privet Hedge A short, steep terrace descended to a formally planted plot, now flowerless, enclosed by low privet hedges. The Three Black Pennys A Novel As to her extraordinary activity and agility," Gatton continued, "we must remember that a privet hedge is not like a stone wall. The Green Eyes of Bâst Sophia crept towards the house, while Tristram seized his opportunity and slipped away to the safe side of the privet hedge. The Blue Pavilions It was what the Senior Surgeon said as he stepped out of the cream pitcher that summoned the amazing apparition from a ragged green hole in the privet hedge. The White Linen Nurse When Caroline reached the Cottage she was surprised to see the front door standing wide open, for the storm swept full across the garden from the south now that the privet hedge was taken up. The Privet Hedge Behind the privet hedge fencing off the paradise, on this good Sunday morning, lurked Amos Entwistle. Lancashire Idylls (1898) Someone was sauntering down the road on the other side of the high privet hedge. The Obstacle Race My brother saw dimly through the dust that two men lifted out something on a white stretcher and put it gently on the grass beneath the privet hedge. The War of the Worlds She went through the field to the privet hedge, clambered into the middle of it, and reclined upon the thick boughs. A Pair of Blue Eyes The mist crept steadily along inland, muffling the church, the trees beyond—almost hiding the privet hedge from Miss Ethel as she glanced out of the window. The Privet Hedge The front garden was a small square with a privet hedge. Sons and Lovers She enjoyed the afternoon very much, particularly the latter part of it, when Mr. Burmistone, who was passing, came in, being invited by Octavia across the privet hedge. A Fair Barbarian To be sure, a privet hedge partly masked the house and its ground from the pottery-yard and works: but only partly. England, My England She caught up one red rose, winked the moisture from her eyes, and gazed—rapt, lips parted, color high—out at the close-clipped lawn behind the privet hedge. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors As they crossed the garden the privet hedge loomed like a wall, and above it could be seen the dim outline of brickwork left jaggedly unfinished. The Privet Hedge A privet hedge, broken by a drive, closed in the withdrawn orderly habitation. The Happy End As she spoke they were passing the privet hedge which surrounded Miss Bassett's house and garden; and a sound caused both to glance around. A Fair Barbarian There was a pleasant garden at the back, and the scent of a privet hedge in it has never to this day left me. The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) The bungalow was situated about a couple of hundred yards from the summit, almost hidden by the high privet hedge which I had noticed from the sea. A Rogue by Compulsion As she went, she noticed for the first time a little flag flying on the roof-beams of the new house that was being built just over the privet hedge. The Privet Hedge The pigeon hung with broken wings in the branches of a privet hedge. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. Along the bottom of the lawn ran a neatly trimmed privet hedge. Quill's Window The young women looked out of their windows at night, and wondered how they'd feel if a troubadour were suddenly to sing to them from behind the privet hedges. Spring Days It stood in a very lonely position, high up on a piece of rising ground, and half hidden from the sea by what seemed like a thick privet hedge. A Rogue by Compulsion Only one light glimmered above the privet hedge from an upper room in the Cottage. The Privet Hedge As he appeared at the rustic gate in the privet hedge, Herminia looked out, and changed color with pleasure when she saw him push it open. The Woman Who Did And breaking through the low privet hedge which separated the domains, she vanished beneath him with a low gurgling sound. The Burning Spear They had reached the privet hedge, and turned. The Lion's Skin Then he comforted her; went to fetch water in her can to make rivers on the sand path, or broke off branches from the privet hedges to plant trees in the beds. Madame Bovary What were those three men doing a few yards beyond the privet hedge? The Privet Hedge There was her lonely little grave, the shadow of the privet hedge falling across it. One of Ours Going to the privet hedge, he looked aver. The Burning Spear Bassett lounged outside the neat privet hedge which it was Harrison Miller's custom to clip with his own bachelor hands, and waited. The Breaking Point I turned around, and there, sitting on the top of a privet hedge, was the gray parrot, Polynesia. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Before Mrs. Bradford could reply about the Warringborns, there came a sound of voices in the great field which stretched park-like beyond the privet hedge. The Privet Hedge There, as he walked about, Claude stopped to look at a grave that stood off by itself, under a privet hedge, with withered leaves and a little French flag on it. One of Ours Orde walked with him down the deep-shaded driveway with the clipped privet hedge on one side, to the iron gate that swung open when one drove over a projecting lever. The Riverman Then Miss Ethel began again—talking on to try and banish the insistent vision in her mind's eye of that square board over the privet hedge, which she knew herself foolish to dwell upon. The Privet Hedge At the far end of Thorhaven towards the north was a little square house surrounded by a privet hedge. The Privet Hedge In so doing, her glance fell on the square board over the privet hedge, and that seemed somehow the visible sign of everything else that was happening in her life. The Privet Hedge Neither of them uttered a sound as they looked at the square board which rose slowly above the privet hedge. The Privet Hedge You see, the privet hedge hid all those streets from the garden. The Privet Hedge |
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