The large central part of the breastbone

Usage examples of gladiolus.

The house itself had a nice little garden, gay with geraniums and gladiolus, and bounded by a hedge of sunflowers which would have gladdened the heart of an aesthete.

He also made arrangements with a florist to have a fresh gladiolus delivered every week.

Later, after Bob had gone, a small girl brought a spray of gladiolus, their slender stems down to her toe-tips and the opening blossoms half hiding her face.

Long flowering spikes of Gladiolus, in shades of glorious purples ranging from lavender to fuchsia invited her to open her eyes just to admire their stunning beauty.

A wide-mouthed milk bottle filled with gladiolus was perched on another table under the window.

Mixed in with them were orange zinnias and lavender gladiolus that dipped toward the ground.

I clear-cut the gladiolus bed and made a six-foot garland by wiring the blossoms to a piece of string, which I thought I never would get right.

Emerging from the shrubs and landscaped lilies, Magnolias, Gladiolus and Hydrangeas, as the air had then cooled much and the end of late summer was marked by the first cold front that had brought cleansing rain which had pulled down the chemicals that the bursting refineries were issuing forth.

Beyond it lay the tiny garden, the lawn neatly trimmed, delphinia and gladioli, irises and hemerocallis, in bloom in the dark earth borders.

She walked hurriedly up the garden path, between the blooming puce rhododendrons, flowering puce gladioli, glorious puce sunflowers and spreading puce spruce trees and looking left and right and up and down as well, slipped behind the trellis work that hid the two puce dustbins and the garden shed, all painted puce.

The blue larkspur flourished beside scarlet gladioli, feather-headed spirea, and hardy fuchsia.

He carried his bag across the parched lawn, between the beds of Beauty Bush and forced gladioli, and let himself into the neat spare double room with the armchair, the bedside table, the Currier and Ives print, the chest of drawers and the brown plastic ash-tray that are standard motel equipment all over America.

As they walked between the beds, he introduced the flowers they passed as though they were old friends - here adjusting a stake that held a blood red gladioli upright, there swiftly beheading a dying blossom.

He was the President of the African Boys’ Club, here in Claremont, in Gladiolus Street.

Beyond it lay the tiny garden, the lawn neatly trimmed, delphinia and gladioli, irises and hemero-callis, in bloom in the dark earth borders.