What is "nenuphar"

Usage examples of "nenuphar".

With any degree of animation this young woman might have manifested a most unusual beauty, comprising the languor of a nenuphar and the elegance of some swift white winter beast.

When I think of my own death, or of the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower.

I had poured out my manhood again and again with Jolenta in the nenuphar boat.

You, Agia, and I came out of that great, glass vivarium, and you hired a boat to take us from the island to the shore, and the river was full of nenuphars with blue flowers and shining green leaves.

Here it was a two-chain-wide expanse of blue nenuphars penned between walls of stone.

For the most part it consisted of a list of exotic fruits and flowers, including the Damascene nenuphars and such delicacies as Osmani quinces and Omani peaches.

They were artfully laid out to imitate nature, punctuated here and there with shallow pools on whose mirror-still surface lay nenuphars pink, blue and yellow.

The Nenuphar and the Asterias did the same, square-rigged mainsails furled like the Eryngo's, just relying on the triangular sails on their stubby aftmasts for steering in circles.

The Dulse and Fire Minnow slid stealthily in our wake, their sister ships Asterias and Nenuphar not far behind.

The Nenuphar and the Asterias backed the Eryngo in a solid blockade, Vithrancel's archers ready to pinion any remaining longboats struggling back to the landing.

Spread in desultory knots between them were those ordinary men of Kellarin who remained after the Eryngo, Nenuphar and Asterias had been hastily provisioned from looted stores and sent to battle wind and tide all the way to the southern end of the strait.