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One talks of a hyacinth as of a flower; but a hyacinth is any number of flowers.— Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
So purple in a violet or a hyacinth is a sign of nearness, because the closer you look at them the more purple you see.— The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
Indico-pleustes, who adds that the king who possessed the hyacinth was at enmity with the king of the country in which were the harbour and the great emporium. [— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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