the-longer-the-prettier

Updated: May 23, 2025

She selected late roses, fire-lilies, orange-yellow starworts a flower which in that locality they call "The-Longer-the-Prettier" and in other places "The Jesus Flowerlet" and sage. The bouquet finally grew to such proportions that it could have sufficed for three bridegrooms of high rank for peasants must always do things on a large scale.

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes