...erself. Like Nature herself, this social nature is busied with insects and flowers of a day—ephemeral trifles; and so, too, it throws up fire and flam... ...ks, a white complexion, a distinguished caste of features, render them the flowers of the human race, magnificent to behold against the mass of other ... ...im into a sort of litter, conveyed him across a garden. He could smell its flowers and the perfume peculiar to trees and grass. The silence which reig... ...s, in plaits going in and out, and bound at the top and bottom by bands of poppy-colored stuff, on which were designs in black arabesque. Below the mu... ...ored stuff, on which were designs in black arabesque. Below the muslin the poppy turned to rose, that amorous color, which was matched by window-curta... ...ndian muslin lined with rose-colored taffeta, and set off with a fringe of poppy-color and black. Six silver-gilt arms, each supporting two candles, w... ... on it. The furniture was covered in white cashmere, relieved by black and poppy-colored ornaments. The clock, the candelabra, all were in white marbl... ...ere had a cloth of cashmere. Elegant flower-pots held roses of every kind, flowers white or red. In fine, the least detail seemed to have been the obj... ...o to the Indies, there where spring is eternal, where the earth grows only flowers, where man can display the magnificence of kings and none shall say...

...himney stack and gesticulated with stiff tendrils towards the heavens. Its flowers were vivid yellow splashes, distinctly visible as separate specks t... ...once smiled under the golden harvest, how the hedges, full of sweet little flowers, parted the modest portion of this man from that, how the ruddy far... ... tabernacular beauty about their meetings, and the stars were no more than flowers of light beneath the feet of their love, and the dawn and sunset th... ...eadow grass from Cheasing Eyebright, and on the desk there lay three empty poppy heads as big as hats. The curtain rods were grass stems. And the trem...

...y would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall. They explored all the passages and dark tunnels in the palace... ...t even the tiger will charge a mob of cattle. But if they straggle to pick flowers or hunt lizards, they are sometimes carried off. Mowgli went throug... ...loes for the ravine by the dhk tree, which was all covered with golden-red flowers. There sat Gray Brother, every bristle on his back lifted. “He has ... ... There were creepers hanging from the upper branches, and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white things like convolvuluses, hung d... ...quiet while the guns are being put together, and then you watch the little poppy shells drop down into the tree-tops ever so far below.” “Don’t you ev...