Any of several bog orchids of the genus Arethusa having 1 or 2 showy flowers

Usage examples of arethusa.

Their names were Isis, Amphitrite, Hebe, Pandora, Psyche, Thetis, Pomona, Daphne, Clytie, Galatea and Arethusa.

In Sicily we delayed a few days to explore the mystery of the Syracusan springs, Arethusa and Cyane, fair nymphs of blue waters.

Silver-sandalled Arethusa Not more swiftly fled the sands, Fled the plains and fled the sunlights, Fled the murmuring ocean strands.

Alpheus and Arethusa,--nothing was thrown into the one without being seen very shortly afterwards floating upon the other.

Yes, Arethusa herself and Pandora, whom we all know by her box, looked down upon the two new managers of the Opera, who ended by clutching at some piece of wreckage and from there stared silently at Box Five on the grand tier.

Now it means an orchid, Arethusa Bulbosa—which you have to admit is a pretty accurate description—and the books say that orchid is characterized by a 'solitary rose-purple flower fringed with yellow.

I could see both Arethusas: one of them moved her chin up slightly, the other down.

I felt my grip firm up, knew that come hell or high water I could hold him for the second it would take Arethusa Two to put her .

He gets to the point, conceptually, where his grandfather was when he commenced breaking the Arethusa messages.

He sets aside (for example) a box labeled HARVARD-WATERHOUSE PRIME FACTOR CHALLENGE '49-52 to reveal a stack of bricks, neatly wrapped in paper that has gone gold with age, each consisting of a short stack of ETC cards, and each labeled ARETHUSA INTERCEPTS with a date from 1944 or '45.

A moment later, when the Arethusa had followed his recaptors into the farther part of the house, the Cigarette found himself alone with his coffee in a ring of empty chairs and tables, all the lusty sportsmen huddled into corners, all their clamorous voices hushed in whispering, all their eyes shooting at him furtively as at a leper.

Under these safeguards, portly clergymen, school-mistresses, gentlemen in grey tweed suits, and all the ruck and rabble of British touristry pour unhindered, Murray in hand, over the railways of the Continent, and yet the slim person of the Arethusa is taken in the meshes, while these great fish go on their way rejoicing.

For you and Cantrell and those others to spend that entire time yammering about Arethusa would be more than he could bear.