Many Hessonite garnets (cinnamon stones) are incorrectly called hyacinths, however. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
The hyacinths are a special treat here, the color, form and scent make them a favorite. From Wordnik.com. [Some Bulbs « Fairegarden] Reference
Also I should have called the hyacinths 'sudden.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Napoleon of Notting Hill] Reference
She was one of those who sell bread to buy hyacinths. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision] Reference
Some may like the smaller Roman hyacinths, which do splendidly indoors. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Cut worms may trouble the hyacinths; if so try the paper collar treatment. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
The hyacinths surpassed in beauty and variety any thing we are accustomed to. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
You all remember the grape hyacinths that grow all through Katharine's side yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
You sometimes see in the park fine beds of tulips and hyacinths early in the season. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
April afternoon some of us found ourselves among the purple hyacinths on Kemmel hill. From Wordnik.com. [On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms] Reference
If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one to buy white hyacinths to feed my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Edith's eyes lingered for a second on a brass bowl full of blue hyacinths, but passed on. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
The cutworm is around early in the season ready to cut the flower stalks of the hyacinths. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Others choose their camellias and their hyacinths; Jeanne must have something more refined. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
(Turns a short, thick two-pounder out of the net into a bed of wild hyacinths in the copse.). From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The room became fragrant with the scent of wild hyacinths, ragged robins, cornflowers and daisies. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
On either side the long walks, on the shelves, stood rows and rows of hyacinths in splendid bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
I knew that Perry's fate would not be mine; there would be no need to sell bread to buy hyacinths. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
He picks us little bunches of violets, hyacinths and wild strawberry flowers -- we have them still. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
= -- Increase in the number of whorls in the perianth is common in lilies, narcissus, hyacinths, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Deserted houses, and gardens blooming with hyacinths and other blossoms of early spring, were passed. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
They are small flowered, quite different from the large sturdy Dutch hyacinths more commonly planted. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Well, you simply couldn't get it into her head that Perry needed the bread that she sold for hyacinths. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
It was a glade of a forest; in the fore-ground a huge oak, knee-deep in bracken, and tall blue hyacinths. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
The Dutch bulb-growers have availed themselves of this latter circumstance in the propagation of hyacinths. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Now may be sown the seeds of bulbous flower roots, as tulips, crown-imperials, hyacinths, and most other bulbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
Jonquils, tulips, hyacinths and lilies, and most other Easter plants, need warmer air than that to grow rapidly in. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
It was starred with primroses and anemones in the earlier months of the year, and blue with hyacinths at a later date. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
White hyacinths and lilies-of-the-valley perfume the air, and palm-branches lie on the new-made grave, above the flowers. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
The tree will grow, the earth will send forth hyacinths (9) and give blessings, and man will become of the heavenly angels. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference
The wild hyacinths were blue about the roots of the tree on which his name was cut -- how low down the sprawling letters were!. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
"There is to be another wedding in the family," said Mrs. Howard, entering the library one day with some hyacinths in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Big Front Door] 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
Once seated at the pretty round table, sweet with the fragrance of hyacinths in a big Swansea bowl, and bright with silver and glass. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
The hyacinths and tulips, they hang back till they know it'll be warm and comfortable outside, but these daffydils don't wait for anything. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
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