nenuphar

“Brown ant-like specklet worn by nenuphar in crown.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

“I tried to writhe away; a struggling pair pushed me back, and I beheld the steel-hearted blue nenuphar of death.”

The Urth of the New Sun

“When I think of my own death, or of the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower.”

The Shadow of the Torturer

“Following the aristocratic and holy example of the Bishops of Salzburg for the last eight centuries, the sovereigns of the Continent are told that the air and waters of Hofgastein are the only nenuphar for the over-taxed brain in labour beneath a crown.”

Mr. Isaacs

“Big blossoms of the honey-sweet and honey - coloured nenuphar?”

Ballad of Reading Gaol

“The Squash beetle (Diabrotica vittata, Fig. 231, and Fig. 230, D. 12-punctata) now attacks the squash plants before they are fairly up; and the Plum weevil (Conotrachelus nenuphar, Fig. 232) will sting the newly formed fruit, late in the month, or early in June.”

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses

“Whenas high rank in beauty poets sing, they say * Brown ant-like specklet worn by nenuphar in crown.”

Arabian nights. English

“Who among you would like to guest blog Morning Medieval Miscellanies? nenuphar said ...”

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