We'd found the early-19th-century shrub in a cemetery, full of little reddish roses with button eyes, and taken some cuttings.

Will this gnarled little rose of a ballet last?

Perhaps the souls of all those little white roses that he has loved so many summers were all there to meet him.

That comforter her mother had loved, the one with the little pink roses on a cream background.

I never stole a pin after that day, for the little rose wouldn't let me forget how you forgave me so sweetly.

This little rose was seldom more than a foot in height and bore deep purple hips, 'inclining to black when ripe'.

He wanted to see her in an outlandish, sensual undergarment decorated with black lace and little satin roses.

"And are all the little roses as red as blood?"

Clouds sprinkled the sky over the harbour like little fiery roses.