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Example sentences for "daffodil"

Lexicographically close words:
daemons; daemonum; daer; daerah; daffing; daffodils; daft; dag; dagas; dagegen
  1. On the Treasury Bench the daffodil is rarely to be descried; but the thistle is in full bloom all the time.

  2. The falling dew is cold and chill, And no bird sings in Arcady, The little fauns have left the hill, Even the tired daffodil Has closed its gilded doors, and still My lover comes not back to me.

  3. If yonder daffodil had lured the bee Into its gilded womb, or any rose Had hung with crimson lamps its little tree!

  4. Place an onion or daffodil bulb in the mouth of a bottle containing water.

  5. Cut open a flower of the daffodil (or narcissus), also one of the wallflower.

  6. No doubt; but this was not the Daffodil Club at daybreak.

  7. Two years ago the Lord Proprietor called his Islanders together, and explained how he hoped to bring back prosperity to the Islands by means of daffodil culture.

  8. For an experiment, he offered to present a thousand Dutch bulbs to every cottager who would give them soil and cultivation, and to-day the Islanders celebrate their first daffodil show.

  9. A present of daffodil bulbs, with the Commandant's compliments, and in acknowledgment of my gift!

  10. I would write of them at greater length but that my daffodil garden is sending out an irresistible call.

  11. He made Mother promise to try to get him a bulb of the real Dwarf Daffodil as his next birthday present, to put in his own garden.

  12. The Dwarf Daffodil of all was brought to her by a man called Francis le Vean.

  13. Puts book of poems down on table and crosses below chair and gathers a daffodil from a large vase down R.

  14. DELIA gathers a daffodil from a vase R.

  15. And the bright daffodil Groweth down by the rill, And I'll seek me another dear love.

  16. For the bright daffodil Groweth down by the rill And I'll be thine own true love.

  17. And the bright daffodil Groweth down by the rill, So come thou and be my love.

  18. Lamb have I that hath fed upon nought But the dainty dames pied, And the violet sweet, and the daffodil That grow fair streams beside.

  19. And the bright daffodil Groweth down by the rill, Yet never I'll be thy love.

  20. One had wild and menacing clouds sweeping on with threat of storm; in another the mountains lay in indescribable calm against a clear daffodil sky; a third again was radiant with light, and crowned with floating rosy clouds.

  21. Grave evening purples steal over the land; in the sky, and reflected in the faithful waters, daffodil and primrose tints melt into each other.

  22. So, you see, we know right away that the sorrel and the rose and buttercup are Exogens, and that the lily and the hyacinth and the daffodil are Endogens.

  23. And they must please to get ready Satanʼs room, where the daffodil curtains was, because the young woman loved to look at the yeast, and to have a good fire burning.

  24. One kind that differs conspicuously from all others is the "Hooped Petticoat" or "Medusa Trumpet" Daffodil (N.

  25. The best time to plant Daffodil bulbs is from the end of August to November.

  26. Cultivation on such an extensive scale, of course, means a considerable reduction in price, and, from a commercial point of view, ordinary Daffodil growing may be said to have reached bedrock prices a long time ago.

  27. Closely related to this is the Great Spanish Daffodil (N.

  28. Another popular and easily-grown Daffodil is the common Double Yellow one known as Telamonius plenus or Van Sion.

  29. Of the flowers associated with Eastertide may be mentioned the garden daffodil and the purple pasque flower, another name for the anemone (Anemone pulsatilla), in allusion to the Passover and Paschal ceremonies.

  30. Few flowers have been more popular than the daffodil or lent-lily, or, as it is sometimes called, the lent-rose.

  31. The Greek had his Elysian Fields, his daffodil meadows where the Eidola, the shadowy images of the dead, moved in a world of shadows; and his islands of the blest, where Achilles and Tydides unlaced the helmet from their flowing hair.

  32. He shall dwell in the home of Deity, stroll in the garden of the gods, bask in the radiance of central suns, recline on the daffodil meadows and wander in the elysian fields of paradise.

  33. Flowers of daffodil (Narcissus pseudo-Narcissus), 3 to 16 in no.

  34. The daffodil of the horizon has faded into scarcely perceptible pale greenish yellow.

  35. The green divides into daffodil and beryl.

  36. When the flowers of the Daffodil are dried in the sun, if a decoction of them is made, from fifteen to thirty grains will prove emetic like that of Ipecacuanha.

  37. The chemical principles of the Daffodil have not been investigated; but a yellow volatile oil of disagreeable odour, and a brown colouring matter, have been got from the flowers.

  38. The medicinal influence of the daffodil on the nervous System has led to giving its flowers and its bulb for Hysterical affections, and even epilepsy, with benefit.

  39. The brilliant yellow blossom of the Daffodil possesses, as is well known, a bell-shaped crown in the midst of its petals, which is strikingly characteristic.

  40. She had an errand to do for Augustina in the village that lay half-way to the daffodil wood, and she sprang up, wondering whether there was still time for it before dark.

  41. Daffodils grew in it now, though the daffodil hour was waning.

  42. As on that first morning, she stood in the window, following with her eye the foaming curves of the Greet, or the last streaks of snow upon the hills, or the daffodil stars in the grass.

  43. Miss Fountain's soft lightness seemed to offer no more resistance than a daffodil on its stalk.

  44. But I'll not fight if Daffodil be a tother side, that's flat.

  45. No more; Daffodil is a knave: That Daffodil is a most notorious knave.

  46. O for that knave, that villain Daffodil would have done good service.

  47. My fellow Daffodil hath him in the cellar already: he knows him; he met him at Croyden fair.

  48. Yes, forsooth; shall not my fellow Daffodil go along with me?

  49. Some English daffodil enthusiasts maintain one can have them in bloom out of doors from February to October, but personally I have never seen any at either extreme date.

  50. This reference is, of course, to the English wild Narcissus, the little yellow daffodil of woods and meadows, no doubt more plentiful in his day than in ours.

  51. It should be remembered that narcissus and daffodil were synonymous terms with the old writers, the one being regarded as the Latin, the other as the English name of the family.

  52. The sad hero of Maud walked "in a ghastly glimmer," and found "the shining daffodil dead.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daffodil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.