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"Stephanotis" Quotes from Famous Books

... let's talk to-night about going. Aren't we outside of time and space...? Smell that guinea-a-bottle stuff over there: what is it? Stephanotis?" ...

— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton

... and it represents not a sacrifice of death, but a sacrifice of fidelity on the part of the two friends, Hadrian and Antinous, who have met together before Persephone to ratify a vow of love till death. He suggests that the wreaths are of stephanotis, that large-leaved myrtle, which was sacred to the Chthonian goddesses after the liberation of Semele from Hades by her son Dionysus. With reference to such ceremonies between Greek comrades, Boetticher cites a vase ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... Tiare Hotel was all upon the broad verandas which surrounded it, their high lattices covered with the climbing bougainvillea and stephanotis vines, which formed a maze for the filtering of the sunlight and the dimming of the activities of the streets. On these verandas were the tables for eating, and in the main bungalow a few bedrooms, with others in detached ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... were crosses and wreaths of white flowers, roses, and stephanotis. And the Austin girls and their cousins, who had come from Brighton and Worthing, carried loose flowers. Down the short drive, through the iron gate, through the farm gate, the bearers staggering ...

— Celibates • George Moore

Words linked to "Stephanotis" : Stephanotis floribunda, genus Stephanotis, Madagascar jasmine, bush