camelia

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Which do you like better, Ruggiero, camelias or violets The camelia is a more lordly flower, Excellency, but for me I like the violets Why Who knows?

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  1. any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers; the camellia.

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  1. any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

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  • La policia solo ayo una pistola tirada del dinero y de camelia nunca mas se supo nada —  Blue House Diaries - Front Page
  • It came down lightly over the tips of her ears in pretty disorder, due to the excitement of the morning, and she was fair as a camelia blossom and fresh as an evening primrose of her native prairie land I wouldn't like to be the man that killed Ascalon, after all its highly painted past," Morgan said, trying to turn it off lightly. —  Trail's End
  • It was impossible for her to turn pale for she was always of a clear, camelia-like pallor; but that pallor grew a little dead as she cried in a tone of horror Oh, no! —  Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl
  • The production of a variety of the camelia, or of a new breed of swine, demands of the gardener and the breeder the patient and prolonged employment of the understanding; and are our entire flora and fauna to be explained without any intervention of mind? —  The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
  • The hair was white, and even the complexion, the one like silver, the other like the camelia. —  The Dust Flower
 

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