Benito went ashore, to buy, if possible, a few bales of this smilax, which is always so much in demand in the markets of the. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
Men were hanging garlands of smilax on the balusters. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Dr. Leidy has some red lilies; some smilax and a wreath are on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
And the balustrade on the stairway was trimmed with smilax all the way to the top floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Bridge] Reference
Long ropes of smilax and syringa, intertwined with pink tulle, swung from the high ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
It is hard to say what the florist could do without smilax, so indispensable has it become. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
The spacious room was wreathed with smilax and other vines -- even to the great chandelier. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
A gilt chandelier was suspended in the middle, from which stretched garlands of real smilax. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
A canopy of asparagus and smilax was twined over the recess where the ceremony was performed. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
One was made of smilax and pink roses; the other a small wreath of evergreens with a silver bell fastened to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
The ceiling was covered in wild smilax dendrobium orchids, and the tables were bedecked with 10,000 white roses. From Wordnik.com. [The Giddy Divorcee: P.R. Kid Grubman Unloads Ex's Condo] Reference
The large orchestra was upstairs surrounding the open carriage trap, which was concealed from below by masses of smilax. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance and Tragedy] Reference
Golden candelabras wreathed in smilax (a twining green plant) and holding white tapers would provide the only centerpieces. From Wordnik.com. [A Night to Remember] Reference
The jangada also took fifty hundredweight of sarsaparilla, a smilax which forms an important branch of foreign trade throughout the. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
Dining-room and library were festooned with smilax. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman] Reference
Down went the keg across its arms, the smilax around it!. From Wordnik.com. [Felix O'Day] Reference
Slingerland, quoted. smilax (florists '). smilax species. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
The plant is a climber, similar to the smilax of our woods. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
"The ceremony and congratulations being of smilax and pom pom'mums.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916] Reference
I walked out through the smilax to see if anything was different at night. From Wordnik.com. [Pure Florida] Reference
The front was decorated with American beauty roses, in addition to the smilax. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
A garland of garlic, caught up like smilax, and another of drying red peppers. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
Stuart and Eugenia paused before the tall gate of smilax and American beauties. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor] Reference
Without rising, Sue began to pick up bits of smilax dropped from the florist's basket. From Wordnik.com. [Apron-Strings] Reference
The strawberry is no more a plagiarist than the smilax, nor the grape than the nettle. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
The odor from a vine of smilax thickly covered with the small flowers is very agreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
"Mother dear," returned Sue, "did you ever see anything like smilax to get all over the place?". From Wordnik.com. [Apron-Strings] Reference
The downstairs rooms and the stairway were decorated with wilting smilax and early fruit-blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby] Reference
Southern smilax, which all but hid all that is ordinarily seen of the auditorium and the corridors. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
She peeped into the ball-room, smilax-draped and glowing as if eager to welcome the guests to come. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel Weed] Reference
Decandolle is right in suspecting that different species of smilax are gathered under the name of sarsaparilla. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
He wondered why she thought love made people happy, and began to talk of the smilax and pinks that adorned the table. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
The great auditorium was a bower of smilax and chrysanthemums, bewildering, amazing, superb in its verdant labyrinth. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Town] Reference
On the wide porch, screened and canopied with smilax and roses, a cool green out-of-doors reception-room had been made. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor] Reference
And above the bell, roofing the improvised altar, was a canopy of smilax, as Gothic in design as the vari-tinted windows to right and left. From Wordnik.com. [Apron-Strings] Reference
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