Symbols of Mexico

Usage examples of dahlias.

Pained by such a hideous colour combination, Rannaldini removed the red dahlias from the vase, chucking them on the grass to be trodden underfoot by the first arrivals.

The broad garden path, on one side of which the shadows of the dahlias and their supports lay aslant, all bright and cold, and shining on the inequalities of the gravel, ran on till it vanished in the mist.

The dahlias and rose bushes, not yet in flower, stood motionless on the black mould of the border, looking as if they were growing slowly upwards on their white-shaved props.

He browsed peacefully upon the lawn, eating up the dahlias and now and again hopping over the six-foot hedge in hopes that there might be a dog come along the lane to bark at him.

He came back into the room carrying a huge vase into which the dahlias had been tumbled with no pretence of aesthetic theory.

Pascoe looked around the room and noticed that the dahlias had been removed.

Huge vasefuls of red-hot pokers and early scarlet dahlias flamed like beacons in each corner.

On the table in the pavilion Kitty had put a big blue bowl of greengages and plums from Rannaldini's orchard, a matching blue vase of yellow snapdragons and red dahlias and two big jugs of lemon barley water but no alcohol.

Trampling heavily on chucked-out red dahlias, like a goddess in search of an apple, she was ravishingly dressed in a pleated white tunic which left one big golden shoulder bare.

Then at the back, her fat legs as brick-red as the squashed dahlias she was clutching, her face topped by that frightful frizzy perm and shiny from racing around all day, cringed Kitty.

But the breed of dahlias your ole Grandma was growin' that year took after big dandelion puffs .

In Wilford churchyard the dahlias were sodden with rain--wet black-crimson balls.

When they were going away, the old lady came timidly with three tiny dahlias in full blow, neat as bees, and speckled scarlet and white.