Saffron crocus is grown in the fields of Pampore, and in the autumn, the land is carpeted by the pale lavender flowers open to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Tigers & Strawberries » Creating Kofta] Reference
Of the spring bulbs, the crocus are the earliest here. From Wordnik.com. [March Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden] Reference
They are fond of the crocus, which is the earliest of our bulbous roots. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829] Reference
The world's most expensive spice is the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus, which is native to Asia Minor. From Wordnik.com. [Assyrian International News Agency] Reference
While the late crocus from the sod. From Wordnik.com. [The Drift of Pinions] Reference
If you are up for a bigger challenge, try planting some nontropical bulbs such as crocus, hyacinths, daffodils or tulips. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Your crocus is a sight for sore eyes!. From Wordnik.com. [Spring? « Fairegarden] Reference
I must say your crocus are a welcome sight. From Wordnik.com. [Mish Mash Monday-Late February Edition « Fairegarden] Reference
(The saffron (crocus sativus) is a kind of crocus of the iris family. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
These crocus-gowns, this outlay of the best myrrh. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
Glowing with a crocus flame in the dells of night. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
He himself wore a one-piece garment made of crocus. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Here's the crocus half opened, that spreads into gold. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Nor see the pointed crocus flame above the garden mold. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
It consists of six petals, like its companion the crocus. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
And the crocus in the garden lifts its bright face to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Memory Selections] Reference
And the crocus in the garden lifts its bright face to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
With the first crocus of criticism, Nunn lowered his public profile. From Wordnik.com. [Dream On, Democrats] Reference
Armed with a crocus-sack, we returned to the house; all was dark and still. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
The leaves are rather narrow, not so dark as the crocus; made from double wax. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
And the crocus was up in the dooryard, and the drift by the fence was thinned. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
One is the Sternbergia, or autumn daffodil, and the other is the autumn crocus. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
A universally-grown plant, even earlier than the crocus, is the well-known snowdrop. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
The warm sunshine soon brought out the scilla and crocus, almost carpeting the whole bed. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
The acrid stench of spring, the crocus pushing up beside the blacked smudge that was her home?. From Wordnik.com. [One of Four] Reference
Nowhere did the crocus come gayly up into the soft atmosphere of early spring in advance of ours. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Sole manufacturers cast nickel anodes, pure nickel salts, importers Vienna lime, crocus, etc. Condit. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
It maddens me to know that the sun will shine again, the tender grass grow green, the veery sing, the crocus come. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
But some days what even I see is the crocus and then I have to turn my own mind around to start seeing the bat. From Wordnik.com. [Born Here] Reference
The bulb is rather small; its form resembles that of the autumn crocus, as also does its mode of growth and reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Under the frozen ground the crocus and the hyacinth and the tulip hide in their hearts the perfect forms of future flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
And here he is: "absurd and frightful," "suffused with crocus, saffron, orange" -- just as he had been with crimson, purple!. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Once when the master had suffered some few financial losses the slaves had to wear clothes that were made of crocus material. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
When the conditions are congenial, love appears, just as the crocus and the snowdrop appear in the congenial air of the spring. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The three highly advertised "personalities" that reached us at crocus time were owned and engineered by Miss Amelia Bingham, Miss Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Just as the golden chalice of the first crocus opened on the graves of the Rehoboth burial-yard, the old woman at the chapel-house died. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
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