Syringa

_ (DD) (The name syringa is commonly misapplied to the species of _Philadelphus. ❋ Unknown (1906)

A syringa was planted in front, and a broom-tree on the right united it with the willow; in the middle there was a deal table. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My favorite thing was all of the syringa flowers, like etched on the carpet how do they even do that? and in the glass windows...very pretty. ❋ Janelle Johnson (2008)

There was a deafening bang, and a large section of the syringa tree detached itself and plummeted to the ground. ❋ Lauren St John (2007)

Their activities upset the natural status quo, and we awoke one morning to find a pair of adult boomslangs Afrikaans for tree snake—“boo-um-slung”, the female brown, the male pea green, looped in a bow at the top of the syringa tree in the driveway. ❋ Lauren St John (2007)

These are Jacaranda mimosifolia, Lantana camara, syringa (Melia azedarach), and white mulberry (Morus alba). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ether de Lilas Blanc sur Feuillage Tendre, built around a note of white lilac syringa vulgaris alba, and also featuring the notes of passion-flower, orange blossom, bark, mandarin, lilac, leaves, iris and musk, is perhaps my favorite of the three. ❋ Marina Geigert (2007)

Wistaria chinensis, and brightened by azalea and syringa clusters. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

On this particular afternoon, Mme. de Guermantes had given me, knowing that I was fond of them, some branches of syringa which had been sent to her from the South. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The spray of syringa made me profoundly sad, as did also the discovery that Albertine could have thought or called me cruel and hostile; most of all perhaps, certain lies so unexpected that I had difficulty in grasping them. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But we lost our heads all the same, so that to conceal our awkwardness we both of us, without any opportunity of discussing it, had the same idea: to pretend to be afraid of the scent of syringa which as a matter of fact we adored. ❋ Unknown (2003)

After eleven years he died in the middle of a May night, when the scent of the syringa hung upon the window-sill and a breeze wafted in the shrillings of the frogs and cicadas outside. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Mma Potokwane spotted him, as usual, as he parked his car under one of the syringa trees. ❋ Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- (2000)

They went into the front room, which was dim with the twilight of the half-closed blinds and two great syringa bushes that grew against them. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Aromatics vibrating to the color blue are syringa, lilac, and sweet pea. ❋ Simon (1994)