asphodel

• Yet I must rise and go--passing through meadows where white lilies sleep in silvery drifts, and asphodel is pale with spires of faintest rose, and narcissus dreams of his own beauty, loading the air with fragrance sweet as some love-music of Mozart. —  New Italian sketches
• Above all rose the splendid pale pink blossoms of the asphodel, a striking feature of a Sicilian landscape The Ingletons ran about in greatest delight, picking handfuls of what were to them beautiful garden flowers It's a moot point whether Proserpine was gathering narcissus or asphodel when Pluto ran away with her," declared Mr. Stacey, offering Lilias a bouquet which a Greek nymph might have been pleased to accept. —  The Princess of the School
• Anthericum. A name applied by the Greeks to the stem of the asphodel, and not misapplied to this set of plants, which in some sort resemble the asphodel. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• You walked as if you were treading on asphodel, and you carried your head as if you'd bought the whole world. —  The Woman's Way
• Nevertheless, the roots of the asphodel were thought by the ancient Greeks to be edible, and they were therefore laid in tombs as food for the dead. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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