gilly-flowers

Round about it were roses and narcissus and amaranths and gilly-flowers and chamomiles and white lilies and violets, and other flowers of all kinds and colours.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But when my mother saw that parchment (for we could not keep it from her) she fell away into her favourite bed of stock gilly-flowers, which she had been tending; and when we brought her round again, did nothing but exclaim against the wickedness of the age and people.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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

Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Henry H. Harper

Take the flowers of Cowslips, Marigolds, Pinks, Clove-gilly-flowers, single stock gilly-flowers, of each four handfuls, the flowers of

A Queens Delight The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent Waters. W. M.

Even today certain poor children -- the poor never budge from their hiding-places -- learn of the arrival of winter only by the odor of roasted chestnuts; of spring, by the boxes of gilly-flowers in the fruiterer's stall; of summer, by the water-carts passing, and of autumn, by the heaps of oyster-shells at the doors of wine-shops.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

There were great pound sweetings, full of the pride of mere bigness; long purple gilly-flowers, craftily hiding their mealy joys under a sad-colored skin; and the Hubbardston, a portly creature quite unspoiled by the prosperity of growth, and holding its lovely scent and flavor like an individual charm.

Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

[65] These "gilly-flowers" were and ordinary species of marine flower.

Colonial Children 1902

On Wednesday, just two months63 after we left our English port, we had a clear sight of America, and of Cape Sable which was seven or eight leagues to the south. 64 On the sea about us we saw yellow gilly-flowers. 65 About the afternoon of the next day we had a clear sight of many islands and hills by the seashore.

Colonial Children 1902

"I can't really find any tangible excuse, except that it makes me think of gilly-flowers, you know," laughed Mrs. Vernon.

Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

Nencia on the terrace, rejoicing at the sweetness of the prospect and the pleasant scent of the gilly-flowers in the stone vases, the Duchess toward midday withdrew to her rooms, giving orders that her dinner should be served in her bed-chamber.

Crucial Instances Edith Wharton 1899