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Gentian is never so lavishly outspread as it is upon the heights, symbolically near the sky.
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The blue Gentian is also in bloom; though not common, it is found in spots about the lake.
Rural Hours 1887
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'There's Jasmine, that's me; there 's Gentian, meaning the little gray-eyed girl in the corner; there's Rose, who always will be and can be nothing but Rose; there's Hollyhock; there's Delphinium.
Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief L. T. Meade 1884
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On their history -- as 'Gentian' from King Gentius, and Funkia from Dr. Funk.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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'Gentian' and 'Ginger' are both valuable; the first as a stomachic and tonic, and the last as a cordial and tonic.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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With them are Hesperus (the semi-amnesiac golden robot who is a member of The Machine People race) and Dr. Meninx (a cranky aquatic being who uses a paper-thin avatar to communicate with non-aquatics) as well as several other Gentian shatterlings.
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Being relatively long lived (both through the expected time dilation effects and the more inventive biological inhibitors) the clones of the Gentian Line get to experience the whole of human history from a unique perspective.
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When the Gentian Line meets with unexpected tragedy, Campion and Purslane look to solve the mystery behind it.
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If Morris does so, he might encounter Sabatia angularis, a rare wildflower in the Gentian family.
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The Gentian Line specialty is building stardams, pseudo-Dyson Spheres composed of multiple ringworlds of varying rotation and radii, producing a "sphere" to contain a star's energies.
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