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Sweet bells

noun

Bushy deciduous shrub of the eastern United States with long racemes of pinkish flowers. Synonym: Leucothoe racemosa.

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"Sweet bells" Quotes from Famous Books

... See'st thou yon river, whose translucent wave, Forth issuing from darkness, windeth through The argent streets o' the City, imaging The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes; Her gardens frequent with the stately Palm, Her Pagods hung with music of sweet bells: Her obelisks of ranged Chrysolite, Minarets and towers? Lo! how he passeth by, And gulphs himself in sands, as not enduring To carry through the world those waves, which bore The reflex of my City in their depths. Oh City! ...

— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Words linked to "Sweet bells" : shrub, Leucothoe racemosa, bush, genus Leucothoe