White bog cotton and yellow bog asphodel add beauty throughout the summer. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
It was asphodel again, but this time he was ready for it. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
His favourite plants were the vine, ivy, laurel, and asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Today we climbed high enough to find asphodel and edelweiss. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
The asphodel seeds disappear and the wild cereals decline markedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference
The asphodel bent under her flying feet, and the golden flowers of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
I remembered it on the Queen when I walked with her, heavy like asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The boar had fled into a brake thick with more licorice trees and asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Vetch, marigold, asphodel, and a hundred others flooded the fields and woods. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
According to Homer, the Underworld is a vast field where the plant asphodel grows. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Autumn Weekend!] Reference
"What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?". From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]
'Our friend, 'he said,' who arrived as an enemy, has passed over the meadows of asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Soft music filled the air; soft breezes came to them as from fields of amaranth and asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891] Reference
The Graces assembling seemed to have joined hands in meadows of asphodel to compose that face. From Wordnik.com. [To the Lighthouse] Reference
Barchester pandemonium just as the nectar and ambrosia were about to descend on the fields of asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
He looked around him at the other cadavers of Heaven, and they were zombies, dead-alive, the victims of asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
Tumbling head over heels in the asphodel meadows like brown paper parcels pitched down a shoot in the post office!. From Wordnik.com. [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference
They know not how much more the half is than the whole, nor what great advantage there is in mallow and asphodel 21. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Crowds of daffodils and fields of asphodel meant nothing to the Clearys, living in a climate where neither could exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
I see the footprints of cattle, but they are marked as though the cattle were going to the asphodel meadow, not away from it. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The hot wind of the desert has passed over it, and the spring beauty of iris and orchid, asphodel and marigold, has vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Parables of the Christ-life] Reference
Neroni was like falling into a pit, an evening spent with Eleanor like an unexpected ramble in some quiet fields of asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
When he heard these brave tidings of his son, Achilles rejoiced in spirit, and strode with lofty gait along the plain of asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
The smell of the fresh-ploughed earth is dear to me, the breath of the kine that have grazed in the meadows of wild parsley and of asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Nevertheless, the roots of the asphodel were thought by the ancient Greeks to be edible, and they were therefore laid in tombs as food for the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
At the base of the wall grew a mass of plants, cyclamen, crocus, asphodel, thrusting their leaves among the piles of broken and chipped roof-tiles that lay there. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
The tale is in Hesiod: ‘He would run over the fruit of the asphodel and not break it; nay, he would run with his feet upon wheaten ears and not hurt the fruit.’. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
If to our poor humanity such honeyed drops of healing do earth's frailest flower-cups yield, how cool, how crystal-clear the nectar from amaranth and asphodel distilled for those. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I think them lazy lumps o 'gods wot kips on asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference
I know the shoots of myrtle and of asphodel now stir the mould. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference
Thyme, and the asphodel blooms, and lulled by Pactolian streamlet. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Poetical Works] Reference
In those thorny regions of finance were no beds of asphodel or amaranthine bowers. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
I snuffed the cabbage-laden atmosphere and seemed to breathe the scent of the asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Thus the father lives in his son and "strides off delighted through the meadow of asphodel.". From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
He tells of the rhodora, the club-moss, the blooming clover, not of the hibiscus and the asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
Pluto's realm is not so barren, nor asphodel so scarce with us, that we must apply to you for provisions. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
So Rhadamanthus sent fifty of the Heroes on board a boat hollowed out of an asphodel trunk, with orders to give chase. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
Oh, they were just lying about on the asphodel, among their friends and kinsmen, all arranged according to their clans and tribes. '. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
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