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Genus of Mediterranean thistles
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carlina
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Carlina is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae . It is distributed from Madeira and the Canary Islands across Europe and northern Africa to Siberia and northwestern China. The genus name Carlina honors the Holy Roman Emperor Charles ...
Usage examples of carlina.
Carlina di Asturien looked with distaste on the embroidered veils and the blue velvet over-gown, set with pearls from Temora, that she would wear for the handfasting ceremony.
King Ardrin of Asturias held high festival, for he was handfasting his daughter Carlina to his foster son and nephew, Bard di Asturien, son of his brother, Dom Rafael of High Fens.
Why should I be forced to spend my life with a man who does not care whether it is me, Carlina, or another, provided she is high-born enough to satisfy his ambition, and has a pretty face and a willing body!
She had never liked it, that he should be foster brother to Carlina and Beltran.
But in her heart Carlina knew that she would not do any of these disgraceful things, but would go through the ceremony with the decorum befitting a princess of Asturias.
I am sure she will find some way to turn Carlina against me, and perhaps both of you.
Perhaps he does not want Carlina for herself, but as a symbol of all that she can bring him.
Perhaps it was a pity for Carlina, but all girls were given in marriage, soon or late, and she might have been married to some elderly lecher, or some grizzled old warrior, or even to some bandit barbarian from one of the little kingdoms across the Kadarin, if her father found it expedient to seal an alliance with another kingdom.
He raised his eyes and looked compassionately at Carlina, wishing she knew Bard as well as he did.
At least, Geremy thought, Carlina would not be sent away from her home for this marriage!
They should have had the wedding and the bedding tonight, so that Carlina could quickly lose her fear of him!
But again and again, his eyes sought out Carlina, where her blue robe, pearl-embroidered, and her dark hair, drew his awareness back again.
He scanned the ranks of guardsmen jealously, but Carlina seemed to pay no more attention to any one than another, dancing courteously with all comers but never accepting a second dance with any.
I would not be Carlina, but only some wish of yours forced on my real self?
And even Carlina herself was not free of the general damnableness of women!