flame-flower

Let Paphos take the mirror: did she press flowerlet of flame-flower to the lustrous white of the white forehead? did the dark veins beat

American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Various

Everybody who came to see us had to be shown the flame-flower.

The Holiday Round 1919

As November came on and the air grew cold, the question whether the flame-flower should winter abroad became insistent.

The Holiday Round 1919

The Atherley's flame-flower, I am glad to inform you, is dead.

The Holiday Round 1919

"The flame-flower!" they said, with awe in their voices.

The Holiday Round 1919

There have been times when I have almost lost faith, and not even the glories of our own flame-flower could cheer me.

The Holiday Round 1919

For, though I like the Atherleys very much, though I think them all extremely jolly ... yet -- I doubt, you know, if they are QUITE the family to have a flame-flower growing in their garden.

The Holiday Round 1919

Caius walked upon the red road bordered by fir hedges and weeds, amongst which blue and yellow asters were beginning to blow, and the ashen seeds of the flame-flower were seen, for its flame was blown out.

The Mermaid A Love Tale Lily Dougall 1890

Little Biddy, more modest, as beseemed her inferior rank in the scale of being, fixed her heart upon a single flame-flower which absolutely refused to reconcile itself with the ingenuous pink of her calico frock.

A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884

Yes, the garden was a great success, and just now it was at one of its prettiest moments, gay with autumn colours; the rudbeckia in its glory, and the great pink blossoms of the hibiscus spreading their skirts for all the world like ladies in an old-time minuet, while over yonder the soldier spikes of the flame-flower threatened to set the woodbine afire.

A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884