Bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters

Usage examples of narcissus.

Then to an accompaniment of lutes and theorbos and citherns moving above the pulse of muffled drums, a choir of maidens sang a song of welcome, strewing the path before the lords of Demonland and the Queen with sweet white hyacinths and narcissus blooms, while the ladies Mevrian and Armelline, more lovely than any queens of earth, waited at the head of the golden staircase above the inner court to greet Queen Sophonisba come to Galing.

The mingled scents of hyacinths, narcissus, freesia, imported mimosa, and lilac filled the air, diminishing the peculiar musty smell of mildew and dust and old wood that was so prevalent in the church.

Against a setting of white narcissi, white trellis-work bowers, and lighted tapers in silver sconces festooned with bunches of faux black Muscadine grapes bedecked with spiralling silver ribbon, Mrs.

Narcissus minor, Omphalodes verna, Orobus vernus, Phlox frondosa, Polyanthus, Primula acaulis, P.

There is that marble where Papias of Aphrodisias has outlined a body tenderly nude, with the delicate resilience of narcissus.

Narcissus, as Captain Barker pounced on the youngster and haled him off to the tulip-bed.

VII Now the meadows with crocus besprent, And the asphodel woodsides she left, And the lake-slopes, the ravishing scent Of narcissus, dark-sweet, for the cleft That tutors the torrent-brook, Delaying its forceful spleen With many a wind and crook Through rock to the broad ravine.

There were beds of tulips and hyacinths, ranunculus, narcissus, tuberose, making a blaze of colour against the old box borders, a foot high.

There is that marble where Papias of Aphrodisias has outlined a body tenderly nude, with the delicate resilience of narcissus.

In May, along with narcissus and lilacs, the Hungarian dermatologist made his debut.

Has not God, the all loving Author who composed the sweet poem of Man and Nature, written at the close a reconciling Elysium wherein these pure lovers, the fond Narcissus and his echo mate, shall wander in perennial bliss, their embracing forms mirrored in unruffled fountains?

The other boy followed with a dreamy look of contentment as he gazed on the fresh green lawns, the narcissus and snowbells dancing under the bare branches of the trees, and the encircling ring of cloud-capped mountains.

Palatine arrived just about the time Flavius Sabinus expected it would: when Narcissus had finally finished investigating the Silius conspiracy.

In the long grass, underneath, a wealth of daffodils, jonquils, and narcissus, came up year after year, and sunned their yellow stars in the light which dappled through the blossom.

Narcissus, whose agents had briefed him on what to look for, appointed himself as tour guide, identifying which furnishings had come from the palace, and which had been confiscated from the estates of those whose death Messalina had caused.