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Example sentences for "hyacinth"

Lexicographically close words:
hver; hvor; hwat; hwen; hyacinthine; hyacinths; hyaena; hyaenas; hyah
  1. Thou, the hyacinth that grows 5 By a quiet-running river; I, the watery reflection And the broken gleam.

  2. Art thou a hyacinth blossom 5 The shepherds upon the hills Have trodden into the ground?

  3. The Hyacinth flowers grow, all on one side, towards the end of a tall and juicy flower-stalk.

  4. You can put the stole down to me--Master Hyacinth Dangerfield, Colet House, Little Deeping.

  5. The Terror, in a very dignified fashion, introduced Erebus to her as Violet Anastasia Dangerfield, and himself as Hyacinth Wolfram Dangerfield.

  6. The moment I understood that, I saw that I and Brother Hyacinth had been at cross-purposes.

  7. You don't know Brother Hyacinth as well as I do.

  8. The saucers under the Hyacinth and Narcissus especially may stand with water, and observe to change the water in the glasses, as already mentioned.

  9. Illustration] When forth she moves, her dainty foot is set, On cowslip, hyacinth and violet, And all day long the woodland minstrels sing Changes of measure for her pleasuring.

  10. But Maria cherished some red and white tulips and a hyacinth in heir kitchen window, as if they had been her children; and to Darry a white rose-tree I had given him seemed almost to take the place of a familiar spirit.

  11. The Roman Hyacinth is the earliest bloomer, coming into flower about the holidays if started in season.

  12. They are very pretty in hyacinth glasses, but this method ruins the bulbs for future use.

  13. I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some buried Cæsar bled; That every hyacinth the garden wears Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head.

  14. The hyacinth does not tolerate gas and artificial heat.

  15. The hyacinth bulbs can be bought from five cents to twenty-five cents apiece, according to their fine breeding.

  16. The paper white narcissus and the Roman hyacinth can also be grown in water, or placed in soil if preferred.

  17. Well, you could attach cords from pegs driven in a circle around the base, to the tree at any height desired, and here plant either the scarlet runner or the hyacinth bean.

  18. You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; "They called me the hyacinth girl.

  19. A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons.

  20. A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red.

  21. Hyacinth at Kharakchin Schatu, by Erdmann after Rashid in the vicinity of Hulun Barkat and Kalanchinalt, which latter was on the borders of the Churché or Manchus.

  22. Indeed, according to Rashid himself, BARGU was the name of one of the tribes occupying the plain; and a quotation from Father Hyacinth would seem to show that the country is still called Barakhu.

  23. It was a very small, poor thing, not so good as a poor specimen of the white Roman hyacinth that blooms for us at Christmas.

  24. After the cold weather is over the hyacinth buds begin to pierce through the manure, and then it can be taken off, and there is nothing more to be done after that but just to pull up any weeds that make their appearance.

  25. Hyacinth flowers are cut off before their beauty is quite spent, so that they shall not come to seed.

  26. In hyacinth time they are, of course, quite bare of leaves, unless one counts a few yellow ones of last year clinging here and there, a beautiful sombre background to the astonishing vivid delicacy of the flowers.

  27. The hyacinth is propagated by its offshoots or young bulbs.

  28. How should you like those smoky coats in the omnibus, for the same reason that you like a white hyacinth or a red tulip?

  29. Now Pink, we'll fix those hyacinth and tulip beds all right.

  30. At last, he finds himself in the lower part of a hall with hyacinth curtains at its extreme end.

  31. Hyacinth continued, "Thou hast to-day evidently taken thy morning draught of bang earlier and more copiously than usual, since thou hast foolishly mistaken the road to thy convent.

  32. But when he wanted to enter, Hyacinth struck him with a bludgeon on the shoulder, which the superintendent returned with a box on the ear, and both began to wrestle together.

  33. Moreover Athene shed great beauty from his head downwards, and made him greater and more mighty to behold, and from his head caused deep curling locks to flow, like the hyacinth flower.

  34. I am drunk with the honey wine Of the moon-unfolded eglantine, Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls.

  35. Although strongly doubly refracting, the hyacinth shows scarcely any dichroism and thus lacks variety of color.

  36. The red of the hyacinth is never equal to that of the ruby.

  37. Brown garnet (hessonite or cinnamon stone), sometimes wrongly called hyacinth in the trade, is of a deep reddish-brown color.

  38. The true hyacinth has more snap and fire owing to its adamantine surface luster and high dispersive power, as well as to its high refractive index.

  39. The common Grape Hyacinth sometimes overruns a garden and cannot be got rid of.

  40. He was talking at the same time to Mrs. Bergmann, Lady Irene, and Lady Hyacinth about the devil.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hyacinth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blue; color; diamond; emerald; flower; jade; pigment; plum; purple; ruby; sapphire; stone