16 examples of rose-petal in sentences

A faint odor of desolation stole through the dimness of the place to meet hima breath from the withered rose-petals which had dropped from the golden vases upon the splendid embroidered altar-cloth and mingled with the dust of those many days which had remained guiltless of Mass or service; the altar candles were unlighted; the censer had lost its halo of mystic smoke.

But redder than rose-petals grew Your cheeks, at my swift compliments; So the softest of breezes it blew The fan that cost $0.63.

No doubt he would decide that the margin had been left for the purpose of making notes,making notes on those abstruse rose-petals of boyish song!

"That," to which he was pointing, was a pictorial bronze, the figure of a girl, upright in a cockleshell boat, made of a rose-petal, her arms outspread to the breeze that was bearing her out across sunlit ripples.

The pretty white room was full of rose-coloured twilight, so pink, it seemed, that if you closed your hand tightly you might find a little ball of crushed rose-petals there when you opened it.

The women of Fayal are not considered remarkable for beauty, but in the villages of Pico one sees in the doorways of hovels complexions like rose-petals, and faces such as one attributes to Evangeline, soft, shy, and innocent.

The sun was gone, the shadows of night were being laid upon the dreary land, when the wavy clouds about the brightening moon became like a shower of rose-petals; the breeze grew softer and softer, for it was, in the language of the peasant, the 'sun-wind,' and the nocturnal peace began to reign over the sadness of the day's death.

Then his arms opened and seemed to swallow the leaping little figure, though his kisses fell with hardly more weight upon the yielded face than had the rose-petals a moment since, so tenderly mindful was his ardour.

It is colored like rose-petals, but it smells more sweet than they.

Claire was bending over, intent on picking up the crumpled rose-petals, when Mr. Flint finally spoke.

Quiet, reserved, gracious, continent, bearing in face and form the fragile beauty of a rose-petal come to its fading on a windless ledge, she moved down the years with the stedfast sweetness of the gentlewomangentle, and a woman.

And Seneca says, of course jestingly, that a Sybarite of the name of Smyrndiride was unable to sleep if one of the rose-petals on his bed happened to be curled!

Did Lucullus ever feast upon preserved rose-petals in his, vaunted pleasure-gardens of Tusculum?

Only in the settlements did we enjoy such luxuries as milk, butter, fresh bread, preserved rose-petals, and fish pies.

And when the rose-petals are scattered 5 At dead of still noon on the grass-plot, What means this passionate grief, This infinite ache of regret?

And the wind, a moment since, With rose-petals strewed the path 5 And the open door.

16 examples of  rose-petal  in sentences