gilly-flower

The desert blossomed a little -- if not as the rose, at least as the gilly-flower.

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

Be, therefore, a gilly-flower of fragrant smell in the Garden of El-Abha, that, through thy perfumed breaths, the spirits and hearts be quickened and animated.

Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

He drank a glass or two of wine at his meals, put syrup of gilly-flower in his sack, and always had a tun-glass of small beer standing by him, which he often stirred about with rosemary.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He drank a glass or two of wine at his meals, put syrup of gilly-flower in his sack, and always had a tun-glass of small beer standing by him, which he often stirred about with rosemary.

Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He drank a glass or two of wine at his meals, put syrup of gilly-flower in his sack, and always had a tun-glass of small beer standing by him, which he often stirred about with rosemary.

For Whom Shakespeare Wrote Charles Dudley Warner 1864

A very pretty picture was she, reader, — with such a face as you sometimes see painted in those wayside shrines of sunny Italy, where the lamp burns pale at evening, and gilly-flower and cyclamen are renewed with every morning.

Agnes of Sorrento 1862

His brows were bushy, and jutted, roof-like, over his deeply-sunken eyes; his nose was bluff as a bull-dog's; his cheek-bones were rough and high; his eyes were wide-set; his mouth was cut square across almost from ear to ear; his chin was square and massy; he had an Adam's apple as large as a gilly-flower ripening on his throat; his hands were large and bony, and his voice "grated harsh thunder," as Milton said of the gates of hell.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

a gilly-flower, but its leaves are larger and thicker, and are as hard as wood.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784