 ... betray a shabby insignificance. Thus, too, with the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the fan-palm to make way for the stalk, — their edges in the day-time look ragged and unfinished, as if nature had left them in a hurry for some more...  New and Rare Beautiful-leaved Plants ... - Page 101by Shirley Hibberd - 1870 - 152 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 336 pages
...shabby insignificance. Thus, too, with the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the fan-palm to make way for the stalk, — their edges in the...went out into the garden again. In clearest moonlight stood my flower, more beautiful than ever. The stalk pierced the air like a spear, all the little bells... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1852 - 364 pages
...shabby insignificance. Thus, too, with the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the fan-palm to make way for the stalk, — their edges in the...went out into the garden again. In clearest moonlight stood my flower, more beautiful than ever. The stalk pierced the air like a spear, all the little bells... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Authors, American - 1852 - 366 pages
...burst asunder suddenly like the '"fan-palm to make way for the stalk,—their edges '"in the day time look ragged and unfinished, as if '"nature had left...out into the garden ' "again. In clearest moonlight stood my flower, more ' "beautiful than ever. The stalk pierced the air like a ' " spear, all the little... | |
 | Joseph Breck - Floriculture - 1856 - 410 pages
...shabby insignificance. Thus, too, with the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the fan-palm, to make way for the stalk, — their edges in the...went out into the garden again. In clearest moonlight stood my flower, more beautiful than ever. The stalk pierced the air like a spear ; all the little... | |
 | Agnes Catlow - Botany - 1857 - 412 pages
...silver ; and not only does the plant not appear in its destined hue by day, but the flower, though as bell-shaped, it cannot quite close again after having...again, in clearest moonlight I stood, my flower more beau tiful than ever. The stalk pierced the air like a spear ; all the little bells had erected themselves... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1857 - 370 pages
...burst asunder suddenly like the '"fan-palm to make way for the stalk, — their edges '"in the day time look ragged and unfinished, as if '" nature had left them in a hurry for some more 1 "pleasing task. On the day after the evening when * " I had thought it so beautiful, I could not... | |
 | Joseph Breck - Floriculture - 1859 - 422 pages
...betray a shabby iix Thus, too, with the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the fan-palm, to make way for the stalk, — their edges in the...the evening when I had thought it so beautiful,.! could not conceive how I hud made such a mistake. But the second evening I* went out into the garden... | |
 | Henry Arthur Bright - Formal gardens - 1879 - 142 pages
...leaves of greenish white, which look dull in the day, are melted by the moon to glistening silver. . . . The second evening I went out into the garden again. In clearest moonlight stood my flower, more beautiful than ever. The stalk pierced the air like a spear ; all the little... | |
 | Henry Arthur Bright - Gardening - 1891 - 144 pages
...of greenish white, which look dull in the day, are melted by the moon to glistening silver. . . ." The second evening I went out into the garden again. In clearest moonlight stood my flower, more beautiful than ever. The stalk pierced the air like a spear; all the little bells... | |
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