everlastings

The flowers are very durable, either cut or in the growing state; they may be used to advantage with dried grasses, ferns, and "everlastings;" or the whole head, when cut, is a good substitute for gold-paper clippings in an unused fire grate; our people have so used one for two years, and it has still a fresh appearance.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

There are plenty of these amiable "everlastings" at

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

A garden of pleasant annual flowers is not complete that does not contain some of the "everlastings" or immortelles.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Lastly, They shall enjoy this blissful and glorious state for evermore: therefore it is termed everlastings life (John xvii.

The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

"everlastings," dwarfed blossoms of the laurestinus; at the four angles the drooping bud of a Christmas rose; at the head of the grave was a white stone, its sharp edges cutting into the starlit air; and on the head, in fresh letters, were inscribed these words: --

Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"everlastings," dwarfed blossoms of the laurestinus; at the four angles the drooping bud of a Christmas rose; at the head of the grave was a white stone, its sharp edges cutting into the starlit air; and on the head, in fresh letters, were inscribed these words: --

Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

This was the house appointed for all living; crosses, monuments, and garlands of everlastings announced, “The Protestant Cemetery, outside the gate of Louvain.”

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

Opposite the door hung a dark-coloured icon with a wax candle sticking to it and a bunch of everlastings hanging down from it.

Resurrection 2003

The short-lived grass, green now as that of an English meadow, was picked out into patterns by the scarlet of the Running Postman; purple sarsaparilla festooned the stems of the scrub; there were vast natural paddocks, here of yellow everlastings, there of heaths in full bloom.

Australia Felix 2003

From the beams in the barn we hung herbs and everlastings to dry.

Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999