The air was cold but dry, and the old garden was sweet with the scent of hyacinths and narcissuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Big Opportunity] Reference

June, we did not fail to go into the nurseries and gardens, and see the hyacinths, tulips, narcissuses, anemones, ranunculuses, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

We must plant now in order to secure a spring display of flowers, and for this purpose nothing can be more satisfactory than bulbous subjects, such as hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, and narcissuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

In the flower-garden, he may finish planting the remainder of the bulbous roots, such as the star of Bethlehem, fritillarias, narcissuses, and gladioluses, in beds or borders, all for flowering the same year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference

The air was so rich with the mingled perfume of violets, orange flowers, jessamines, tuberoses, hyacinths and narcissuses that the King and his visitors were sometimes obliged to fly from the overpowering sweets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Versailles] Reference

Just at the moment I saw him, he held in his two hands an enormous bunch of lilacs, to which his companion was trying to add narcissuses and primroses; the two children laughed, and parted with a friendly good-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

When the Campagna has quickened under the breath of the Italian spring into a tender greenness, and is starred with orchids and sweet-scented narcissuses, I know nothing more pleasant than a visit to this renowned spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

I wanted to be among the fields, now the narcissuses are out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference

After a moment she replied, her hands full of forced narcissuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference

Th 'very little ones are snowdrops an' crocuses an 'th' big ones are narcissuses an 'jonquils and daffydowndillys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Garden] Reference

The fields were full of tulips and narcissuses, and the rocks by the roadside were covered with boxwood and lavender.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.]

They're crocuses an 'snowdrops, an' these here is narcissuses, "turning to another patch," an here's daffydowndillys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Garden]

Flowers, flowers were everywhere, roses, violets, narcissuses, and a score of others breathing forth a heavy fragrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

I remember with what delight I found wild narcissuses growing in a meadow upon the top of it, and was allowed to gather as many as I liked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino] Reference

Like narcissuses suddenly blooming above the grass, their long ears shine white; beneath them their bright eyes glitter like bloody rubies thickly sown in the velvet of the greensward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812] Reference

The monarch himself, affirm Hernández and García in their study, ¨was a connoisseur of botany and wrote about ornamental bulbs in the letters to his daughters, mentioning narcissuses, but not tulips¨.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In the steep fields above her the narcissuses were bent and bowed with rain; the red-browns of the walnuts glistened in the wet gleams of sun; the fading apple-blossom beside her wore a melancholy beauty; only in the rich, pushing grass, with its wealth of flowers and its branching cow-parsley, was there the stubborn life and prophecy of summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference

They're crocuses an 'snowdrops, an' these here is narcissuses, "turning to another patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Garden] Reference

"---- always fussing over it; she plants narcissuses and crocuses in the woods, so you find them growing wild.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference

The part of the county that joins Gloucestershire is rich in apple-orchards, which I remember one year in the blossoming-time, while the early grass, already green and wavy, fringed the foot of the trees, and by the road as we passed we looked through hedges and over low walls into gardens full of crocuses, snowdrops, narcissuses, early pansies and daffodils, for spring gardens have become rather a mania in England within ten or twelve years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference

Crocuses, daffodils, tulips, narcissuses and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vindy.com stories: Vindy.com Newswatch » Breaking News from around Youngstown, Warren, Columbiana Ohio] Reference

Dr. Pound notes many other barbarous plurals, not mentioned above, e. g., antennas, cerebras, alumnas, alumnuses, narcissuses, apparatuses, emporiums, opuses, criterions, amœbas, cactuses, phenomenons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words] Reference

If he had wished it, he could have bathed himself in flowers; hyacinths, crocuses, jonquils, camellias, roses, grew round him everywhere, sending up a symphony of warm odours; further on, in the grass, violets, anemones, celandine; further still, by the margins of the pond, narcissuses, and tall white flowers-de-luce; and, in the shrubberies, satiny azaleas; and overhead, the magnolia trees, drooping with their freight of ivory cups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Roses] Reference

Lilacs, jasmines, and many other flowering shrubs are common in the gardens, while among wild flowers may be noticed hollyhocks, lilies, tulips, crocuses, anemones, lilies of the valley, fritillaries, gentians, primroses, convolvuluses, chrysanthemums, heliotropes, pinks, water-lilies, ranunculuses, jonquils, narcissuses, hyacinths, mallows, stocks, violets, a fine campanula (Michauxia levigata), a mint (Nepeta longiflora), several sages, salsolas, and fagonias.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

92 mustache, 222, 226, 240 mustang, 101 mutt, 184, 191 muzhik, 249 my, 291, 377 my dear, 142 myself, 303 nabisco, 195, 196 naite, 410 naïve, 250 naïvete, 249, 250 nameable, 42 naphtha, 211 narcissis, 252 narcissuses, 252 nasty, 170, 307 nature, 71, 112 nature-faker, 190, 362 naught, 223 naughty, 307 navvy, 95, 114 near, 32, 187, 231 near-accident, 44 near-beer, 187 near-silk, 32, 205, 306 necco, 196 necessarily, 169, 210 neck, 56, 352 necktie, 115 née, 320 neer, 232 negative, v.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference