Mississippi bloom

Usage examples of magnolia.

She wore a magnolia skirt and a white marocain blouse, and her fair hair was pinned up in a tight bun at the back of her finely sculpted head.

There were monkey-puzzle trees that reached almost five hundred feet in height, giant magnolias and sycamores, metasequoias, huge palms, and giant tree ferns.

In the grasses, in the trees, deep in the calix of punka flower and magnolia bloom, the gnats, the caterpillars, the beetles, all the microscopic, multitudinous life of the daytime drowsed and dozed.

An exquisite mingling of many odours passed continually over the Mission, from the garden of the Seed ranch, meeting and blending with the aroma of its magnolia buds and punka blossoms.

Magnolia Cafe over a hot breakfast of eggs, bacon, grits, biscuits, coffee and scuppernong jelly.

Smithson mused thus, alone and in the darkness, Montesma and Lady Lesbia were wandering arm in arm in another and lovelier part of the grounds, where golden lights were scattered like Cuban fire-flies among the foliage of seringa and magnolia, arbutus and rhododendron, while at intervals a sudden flush of rosier light was shed over garden and river, as if by enchantment, surprising a couple here and there in the midst of a flirtation which had begun in darkness.

In full view, and lit up by the reflected radiance flung out from the dome, a rushing waterfall made sonorous surgy music of its own as it tumbled headlong into a rocky recess overgrown with lotus-lilies and plumy fern,--here and there, small, white and gold tents or pavilions glimmered invitingly through the shadows cast by the great magnolia trees, from whose lovely half-shut buds balmy odors crept deliciously through the warm air.

Presently through an archway of twisted magnolia stems, Theos caught a glimpse of the illuminated pool with the marble nymph in its centre which had so greatly fascinated him on his first arrival,--and he pressed forward eagerly, knowing that now they could not be very far from the gates of exit.

The Slocum-controlled Magnolia Journal villified the Court, calling for defiance.

They look to the top for Blackburnians, across the middle for Magnolias, and in the lower branches for Black-and-Whites.

When the sun sank I sat on the terrace meditating and contemplating the colors of the darkly shimmering well-nigh blackish green foliage of the magnolias, the snow of the mountains opposite, glittering golden in the evening light, above it the luminous, pale greenish blue sky, and below the purplish violet mountain slopes and the soft steel blue lake.

The night flowers exhale their bloom, bougainvillaea and hibiscus and magnolia are still and shadowy in the night.

Everywhere, it seemed, there were towering palms, tropical bushes, bougainvillaea, tall magnolia trees.

By the end of the Cretaceous, modern plants such as magnolias, buttonwood trees, and the rose family decorated the landscape.

Inevitably, Eberhard cornered her in the abandoned warehouse on Blue Magnolia Lane.