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The great nobles, who had been uniformly actuated by jealousy of the Prince of Orange, who had been baffled in their intrigue with Matthias, whose half-blown designs upon Anjou had already been nipped in the bud, were now peculiarly in a position to listen to the wily tongue of Alexander Farnese.
Mountague gathered three roses, a bud, a half-blown and a full-blown rose, and playfully presented them to Lady Augusta for her choice. "I'm dying to see this Gaudentio di Lucca; you'll get the book for me to-morrow from Miss Helen Temple, will you?" said Lady Augusta, as she with a coquettish smile took the rose-bud, and put it into her bosom.
In my tent there was no one very bad at the time, except a boy with his shoulder half-blown off by a whizz-bang, who lay in a drugged sleep at the far end. The majority were influenza, bronchitis, and trench-fever waiting to be moved to the base, or convalescent and about to return to their units.
Dora's was bright with the brightness of a marigold that follows the sun without knowing it; and Eliza's was bright with the brightness of a half-blown cabbage rose, radiating good-humour. This last is not a good simile, but I cannot find a better. I confess failure, and go on.
The great nobles, who had been uniformly actuated by jealousy of the Prince of Orange, who had been baffled in their intrigue with Matthias, whose half-blown designs upon Anjou had already been nipped in the bud, were now peculiarly in a position to listen to the wily tongue of Alexander Farnese.
Still with the business-like air, Christie held up one after another of the little knots, saying soberly, though her eyes smiled: "This white one might be given to a newly engaged girl, as suggestive of the coming bridal. That half-blown bud would say a great deal from a lover to his idol; and this heliotrope be most encouraging to a timid swain.
I am so happy you came!" whispered she with a tremor. "God bless you, dear little Bessie! Give me this for a keepsake," said Harry, and took a white, half-blown rose which she wore in the bosom of her pretty dress of lilac percale. She let him have it.
She had been negative and colourless, but now she was a lovely mystery a half-blown windflower on some brown, bare hillside, where Life, in all its fulness, was yet to come. "Did you tell your Grandmother and Aunt Matilda?" "No. How could I?" "You'd better not. They'd only make it hard for you, and I wouldn't be allowed in the parlour anyway." Rosemary had not thought of that.
"I hate a big hoop and a monstrous topknot that pulls my hair, and a bunch of feathers that makes one look like an Indian sachem." She made such a pretty pouting mouth, like a rose half-blown, that madam laughed. "And then one can run around with Patty and tease the boys who sell pink calamus buds, and buy 'Peppery pot, smoking hot." She was such a good mimic it sounded exactly like the venders.
Sistrum handles, saucers, drinking-cups in the form of a half-blown lotus, plates, dishes in short, all vessels in common use were required to be not only easy to keep clean, but pleasant to look upon. Did they carry their taste for enamelled ware so far as to cover the walls of their houses with glazed tiles?
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