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More "Corolla" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that tobogganing party where Captain Du Meresq hurt his ankle?" asked Bluebell, diligently examining the corolla ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... passion, that heightened her power; And cuffing, and shaking the innocent flower, Its tender corolla in shred after shred She hastily stripped; then she snapped ...
— The Youth's Coronal • Hannah Flagg Gould
... the ways of the world, but on tiptoe to reach the fruit of the tree of knowledge,—alive to the moist vitality of that warm atmosphere palpitating with voices and music, as the flower of some diaecious plant which has grown in a lone corner, and suddenly unfolding its corolla on some hot-breathing June evening, feels that the air is perfumed with strange odors and loaded with golden dust wafted from those other blossoms with which its double life is shared,—this almost overwomanized woman, might well have ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... a chair near it. Leslie Winton seated herself, leaning on the table to study the orchids. Unconsciously she made the picture Douglas had seen. She reached up slim fingers in delicate touchings here and there of moss, corolla and slipper. ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... roused from its apathy by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation. But I advocate natural-history knowledge from this point of view, because it would lead us to seek the beauties of natural objects, instead of trusting to chance to force them on our attention. To a person uninstructed in natural history, ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley
... signatures, choosing, for instance, the Viper's Bugloss as effectual against venomous bites, because of its resembling a snake; and the sweet little English Eyebright, which shows a dark pupil in the centre white ocular corolla, as of ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... i. 212. Common to most creeks of the interior. Stuart. The lobes of the calyx are narrower than in the specimens from the Murchison River; the lobes of the corolla likewise narrower, and occasionally augmented to nine. The leaflets sometimes ovate. Transient forms are sent from Champion Bay by ...
— Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart • John McDouall Stuart
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