Does it not conjure up images of blue eyes and auburn hair of hyacinthine flow!. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
They stopped at a barber shop in the place and those famous hyacinthine locks were clipped. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
His tissue becomes finer, his skin clearer and brighter, and his hair more glossy and hyacinthine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
He has good hair, -- "hyacinthine locks" that "from his parted forelock manly hung"; a "fair large front" and. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The graceful curl of the petals, not their dark violet colour, has suggested to the poets "hyacinthine locks.". From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Chateaubriand's "Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem," page 53. 13. hyacinthine isle: a reference to the flowers of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
“Faces pale as the primrose with hyacinthine locks” are in our eyes; the woods of Tuderly breathe their mystic voices in our ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
In such an illumination the eyes shone with added luster, flying locks were all hyacinthine, the frocks might have been silks and satins. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The Elkhesaites, in hyacinthine robes, reply to him. From Wordnik.com. [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference
As for the hyacinthine purple cloak, I wear it because I like it. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Her hair clung to her temples in heavy hyacinthine curls tinged with violet. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
Beneath its hyacinthine curls it beamed on him with a fixed benevolent smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Troy] Reference
While nature knows no secret, to renew Youth's sable glow, and hyacinthine hue. From Wordnik.com. [The progress of civil society : a didactic poem, in six books] Reference
His dark-brown hair was short and hyacinthine, close to his white forehead, and naturally showing his small ears. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
The hyacinthine curl of her lengthening locks had added something to her beauty; but it was the same face which had haunted him. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian Angel] Reference
It is hyacinthine purple. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Her hair in hyacinthine flow. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
With flowing hyacinthine hair. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891] Reference
Upon his hated hyacinthine head?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887] Reference
Upstands the hyacinthine flower. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
Clear flowered one hyacinthine star. From Wordnik.com. [Sprays of Shamrock] Reference
And hyacinthine curls, that streamed. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Her hair was bright as hyacinthine dyes. From Wordnik.com. [Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers] Reference
His thick large locks of hyacinthine dye. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
The ancient wreath o'er hyacinthine hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Bon Gaultier Ballads] Reference
He shook from off his ears the hyacinthine. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
His hyacinthine locks descend in wavy curls. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Like hyacinthine flow'rs down from his brows. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
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