Brown ant-like specklet worn by nenuphar in crown. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I tried to writhe away; a struggling pair pushed me back, and I beheld the steel-hearted blue nenuphar of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
When I think of my own death, or of the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
Big blossoms of the honey-sweet and honey - coloured nenuphar?. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
Who among you would like to guest blog Morning Medieval Miscellanies? nenuphar said. From Wordnik.com. [Unlocked Wordhoard] Reference
The Squash beetle (Diabrotica vittata, Fig. 231, and Fig. 230, D. 12-punctata) now attacks the squash plants before they are fairly up; and the Plum weevil (Conotrachelus nenuphar, Fig. 232) will sting the newly formed fruit, late in the month, or early in June. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
And honey-coloured nenuphar?. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
To the head; balm, hops, nenuphar, &c. Liver; eupatory, artemisia, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Twenty minutes before she had been with me, for I had chanced to meet her, and she had come, but kept darting on ahead after peeping fruit, gathering armfuls of amaranth, nenuphar, and red-berried asphodel, till, weary of my life, I had called to her: 'Go away! out of my sight' -- and she, with suddenly pushed under-lip, had walked off. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
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