aspidistras

Plants were everywhere in shades of dark green, lightened in some places by paler ferns, delicate against the larger, stronger leaves of what looked like huge aspidistras.

The Legacy

He stopped her in a quiet area between a row of white pillars and a row of aspidistras in huge brass urns.

Worldshaker

Reluctantly, Col emerged from the shelter of the urns and aspidistras.

Worldshaker

There were marble statues on fluted plinths and dark-leaved aspidistras in terra-cotta urns.

Worldshaker

Mrs Honeyball, who reportedly makes her staff hold aspidistras and type with a pencil clenched in their teeth, would be a much more representative leader than Mrs Glennis Wilmott, the present Leader of Labour MEPs.

Blogs by idiots

You will find it there among the plush curtains and the aspidistras.

THE DIAMOND

They came to an impasse where the path was blocked by large ugly plants like magnified aspidistras, whose leaves terminated in long lashes armed with thorns.

Burmese Days

I wondered where on earth it would fit, in among all the ottomans and firescreens and aspidistras.

To Say Nothing of the Dog

The hotel foyer was full of brown aspidistras and green silver, the floor was visible through the holes in the carpet, and a gnome-like clerk was turning the pages of a vast dusty ledger.

Funeral In Berlin

There were aspidistras, fussy lace curtains, shelves full of antique Meissen and a cocktail cabinet like a small wooden version of the Kremlin.

Funeral In Berlin