What is "hyacinths"

Usage examples of "hyacinths".

Dokken had also introduced a community of fishes that fed on the hyacinths, insects that pollinated the flowers, and cliff swallows that ate the insects.

If we dangle a few star hyacinths before her eyes, she should be willing to fly us back.

But the only thing that's known for sure is that in a manner never clearly explained, the Dosey Asteroids Company lost six months' production of gem-quality cut star hyacinths valued at nearly a hundred million credits.

All but a few of the star hyacinths had been placed in a vault-like compartment in the storage, and the compartment was sealed.

Calat stood watching them fifteen feet away, holding Dasinger's gun in one hand while he jiggled a few of Hovig's star hyacinths gently about in the other.

They are waiting only to assure themselves that the star hyacinths actually are in the indicated compartment.

At a guess Hovig's little private collection of star hyacinths was taking off with it.

Dasinger silenced the machines, fastened them and a small steel case containing nearly a hundred million credits' worth of star hyacinths to the salvage carrier, and towed it all up to the lock compartment.

If water hyacinths are like women at all, it's because we're the stronger sex," Sylvie argued over her shoulder.

First she forgot the water for the whisky, then going back to fetch it, she forgot what she wanted it for, and proceeded to water a bowl of lurid pink hyacinths, not even noticing when it overflowed.

Going into the kitchen, he found a table with pink candles laid for two, pink freesias and hyacinths everywhere and two bottles of Moet in the fridge.

That was selfish of me,' and he brought her breakfast in bed with grape hyacinths in a little vase.

Apple logs crackled merrily in the grate, side lamps cast soft light on huge dark blue bowls of white hyacinths, and on the soft red roses and peonies of the Aubusson which flowed over the entire floor.

Downstream, still pools were now clogged with lush water hyacinths that also grew at a remarkable pace.

But be careful with the runoff water—the caustics could kill the water hyacinths and the kudzu.