1.   She succeeded to some extent when a most magnificent full-blossomed magnolia tree caught her eye.

2.   As a strong southerly wind rustled the magnolia trees and puffed into the microphone, Clinton walked alone from the Oval Office two hours after the Senate finished voting.

3.   All the other bungalows on the street have quiet little aprons of grass with a few azaleas or clipped forgettable evergreens or a magnolia tree.

4.   But everyone likes the delicate powder blue wildflowers called Virginia bluebells that sprout dependably each April under the magnolia tree.

5.   Environmentalists were upset over the displacement of a magnolia tree to make room for the statue.

6.   Early in his career, Marcus recalled in a recent interview, he was admiring a magnolia tree on a street in Dallas.

7.   Even over the phone, the richness of his Southern-fried chortle creates images of an old storyteller relaxing under a magnolia tree.

8.   He soured on the project after the city cut down a magnolia tree on the Oxford square to make room for the statue.

9.   I do not know how the name Lum Benson came to be on that magnolia tree.

10.   I suspect my magnolia tree is going to get ugly this year.