jonquil

• There are many flowers in the forest: marigolds, a white jonquil-looking flower without smell, many orchids, white, yellow, and pink Asclepias, with bunches of French-white flowers, clematis— Methonica gloriosa , gladiolus, and blue and deep purple polygalas, grasses with white starry seed-vessels, and spikelets of brownish red and yellow. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
• Stick a few sprays of asparagus and maidenhair fern in it and a number of white and yellow spring flowers--the crocus, jonquil, daffodil, daisy and snowdrop. —  Games For All Occasions
• He would rather have faced an enemy's battery, vomiting out shot and shell, than gone up the broad, stately staircase, and by the silent, sunny passageways, to that fragrant, white-paneled room On the stands and tables were bowls full of clear-coloured spring flowers--early primrose, jonquil, and narcissus. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• The travellers had left New York in the midst of a snowstorm, but here the scent of lilac and of jonquil, the song of birds, the breath of spring, were all about them. —  The Colonel's Dream
• So that they will think of him as fine and splendid, and going up to Heaven because God loves brave men It was a hard task that she had set him, and when at last he left her, he went slowly up the stairs The children had strung the Midnight Camels across the room, the purple, patient creatures that Jean had made The round rug is an oasis," Teddy explained, "and the jonquil is a palm--and we are going to save the dates and figs from our lunch I want my lunch," Margaret-Mary complained Derry looked at his watch. —  The Tin Soldier

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