"Petalled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... light that showers On beauty's changed corolla-shades, - The walks are gay as bridal bowers With rows of many-petalled maids. ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... columns around the court are Byzantine, and one of them bears the inscription: the (column) of, Theophane—[Greek: he tes Theophanes] (Fig. 69). In the south wall is built a beautiful Byzantine doorway having jambs and lintel decorated on the face with a broad undercut scroll of flat leaves and four-petalled flowers, running between two rows of egg and dart, while on the intrados are two bands of floral ornaments separated by a bead moulding. One of the bands is clearly a vine scroll. The method employed here, of joining ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen
... in a man. He must roll on the floor and blubber and kick. There is no getting away from this. He is not Romeo unless he cries like a baby or a Greek hero. This is the penalty for being a lyric poet. Had he used his mind more upon the problems of his love, and less upon its celebration in petalled phrases, his mind would not have deserted him so lamentably in the hour of his need. In fact, throughout the play, Romeo, by the exigencies of the plot, is in fair danger of becoming contemptible. For one instant ...
— Emerson and Other Essays • John Jay Chapman
... aisles of May, Faint bells of perfume swing and fall. Within this apple-petalled wall (A gray east, flecked with rosy day) The pink laburnum lays her cheek In married, matchless, lovely bliss, Against her golden mate, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various |
