snow-drop

In their simple dresses — grey jaconet muslin, sparely trimmed with lavender — and wearing no jewel or ornament, but a single snow-drop in the breast, the lovely bridesmaids looked as if they defied all the world to make them brides.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Instead of seeking for any more flowers, she was taking from her breast the one she had — the snow-drop, and threatening to tear it in pieces.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

But the other snow-drop was not seen, except by the wearer with a stolen glance, when people were making a loyal noise — a little glance stolen at his own heart.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

It was almost dark now, with the slow light, like a snow-drop, of their united lives floating between the feet of Huitzilopochtli, and the everlasting-light burning small and bluish beyond the statue of Quetzalcoatl.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The cold snow-drop, that little borderer on the skirts of winter, was to be seen with its chaste white blossoms in the small gardens before the cottages.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

The news of the wedding had slipt abroad before the little party came out of church, and many old and humble friends were there, seeing her look “like a snow-drop,” as they say.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

She was like a snow-drop in a garden of exotics -- so pale and fair and young, in her robes of filmy lace from the cushions of Burano -- the great pearls of Janus rising and falling with the frightened throbbing of her breast.

The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

I admit that Philip placed his arm around me (but not unrebuked, as you would have it); I admit he stooped to kiss me; but, "cries Molly, with sudden passion that leaves her pale as an early snow-drop," I do _not_ admit he kissed me.

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

And venture short flights where the snow-drop hings

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

To die before the snow-drop came, and now the violet's here.

Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius