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"Phryne before the Judges" or Long's "Thisbe?" She languorously waved a floral fan of crimson carnations, and recited with all of Siddons' grace and Rachel's fire selections from a book of poems, that were so many dynamite bombs of vice smothered in roses.
Meanwhile, O Bharata, the brothers unarmed, or rather with their bare arms as their only weapons, desirous of fighting with Jarasandha, entered the capital in the guise of Brahmanas. They beheld the extraordinary beauty of the shops full of various edibles and floral wreaths, and supplied with articles of every variety of various qualities that man can desire.
And hark ye, John, when they are made Come up and let me know; And I'll give thee a list of those To whom the flowers must go," The twenty-five bouquets were made, And round the village sent; And to whom thinkest thou, my friend, These floral jewels went? Not to the beautiful and proud Not to the rich and gay Who, Dives-like, at Luxury's feast Are seated every day.
"My husband's estate consisted of a moderate amount of life insurance, a prosperous business, and no debts. "He was a florist. "The establishment is located in the heart of a very fashionable district. "There has scarcely been a function of the élite in this section which my husband has not supplied with floral decorations.
From the center of these airy skylights are suspended lamps which, by night, convert the corridors into brilliantly lighted promenades. Horticultural Gardens Floral Exhibit in the Open The Horticultural Gardens, lying south and west of the Palace of Horticulture, are, in reality, exhibit gardens, where much of the display belonging to the Palace itself is placed.
Ready hands relieved the soldiers of their burden as the line filed in sight of the Governor, who had come to speed the parting braves. Lads and lasses made merry with the elated warriors. The muskets were turned into bouquet-holders, and the first move toward real war took on the air of a floral fête.
It is a chair seat woven after the designs popular with Louis XV and his court, a plain background of solid colour on which is thrown a floral ornament. The loom was a small affair of the low-warp type, and was operated by a Frenchman who came to this country for the purpose of starting the craft on new soil.
The clever way in which the architects overcame the difficulty caused by differences of span is worthy of attention. On the vaults, traces of painting, of floral diapers, etc., can still be seen, and in "The New British Traveller" we have a description of a subject medallion then to be seen beneath St. William's Chapel.
Thus it came to pass that, in the big hall of this school, divers of the Reformed found themselves copying, and colouring the copy of, a curious picture pinned to a blackboard the picture of a floral wonder unknown to Botany, possessed of delicate mauve leaves, blue-veined, shaped some like the oak-leaf and some like the ivy; of long slender blades like those of the iris, but of tenderest pink; of beautiful and profusely chromatic blossoms, reminding one now of the orchid, now of the sunflower and anon of the forget-me-not; and likewise of clustering fulgent fruit.
Charming creature; concerning whom there are anecdotes still afloat, and at least verses of this Prince's writing; not too well seen by Wreech, lately made a Knight of Malta, who, though only turning forty, is perhaps twice her age. The beautifulest, cleverest, fancy it; and whether the peaty Neumark produces nothing in the floral kind! "We went to dinner; he asked me to sit beside him.
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