He led them, between vines and fruit trees and beds of martagon and mirasolus, to the lion-house in his garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ] Reference

I send you two martagon roots, and some jonquils; and have added some prints, two enamelled Pictures, and three medals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

L. martagon is a true turkscap species that seeds itself freely in my garden and even appears in paving cracks. it is a rather muddy purple but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"many martagon-lilies of Moero" in the Anthology of Meleager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology] Reference

Solomon 5: 13) There appears to be no species of lily which so completely answers all these requirements as the Lilium chalcedonicum, or scarlet martagon, which grows in profusing in the Levant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

"Consider the lilies of the field" -- not the pale, delicate blossom we know so well, but "the scarlet martagon" which "decks herself in red and gold to meet the step of summer" -- "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teaching of Jesus] Reference

When the animal opens, the arms at first separate without bending outside, so that the whole looks like an inverted pentapod; but gradually the tips of the arms bend outward as the arms diverge more and more, and when fully expanded the crown has the appearance of a lily of the L. martagon type, in which each petal is curved upon itself, the pinnules of the arms spreading laterally more and more, as the crown is more fully open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference

But the martagon has a wonderfully wild soul and looks glorious at the edge of the garden ... ".    From Wordnik.com.  [RutlandHerald.com] Reference

I love it because it has practical advice and wonderfully lyrical prose: She says of the martagon lily, for example, "it smells worse than a foxes den.    From Wordnik.com.  [RutlandHerald.com] Reference

Oh, is it surely blown, my martagon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

Why didn't I plant more martagon lilies?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

6: 28; Luke 12: 27) were probably the scarlet martagon (Lilium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

The road from Sholt's Tavern to this place, thirty-six miles distant, lies partly across "barrens," that is, land of middling quality, thinly set with timber, or covered with long grass and shrubby underwood; generally level and dry, and gaudy with marigolds, sunflowers, martagon lilies, and many other beautiful flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe] Reference