| 单词 | stephanotis |
| 例句 | Soon, classic floral scents — rose, lily of the valley, violet, stephanotis — were sold alongside grooming products, bespoke fragrances concocted for wealthy clients in the shop’s cellar. A Road Map to Shopping Like a Royal in London 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z She carried a bouquet of stephanotis, orange, and myrtle. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z It is a very elegant robe indeed; and I have a wreath of white stephanotis for your hair, miss. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Over her shoulders is a China crape shawl, either white or rose-coloured—a wedding present,—and her raven tresses are set off by a bunch of wax-like stephanotis or of scarlet hibiscus. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z At the table a charming surprise does indeed await her--a bouquet of stephanotis and gardenias. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z The finger-bowls at dinner all held stephanotis flowers; the cloying, heavy scent floated through the hot air. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Third, she painted a bridegroom, dashing in a dark suit with white stephanotis for his boutonnière. Allegra Goodman: “La Vita Nuova.” 2010-04-26T04:00:00Z Oh, those dear little bunches of chiffon, and white stephanotis in the middle of each bunch! A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z She gave Sophy a little nosegay of white oleander and stephanotis, and kissed her cheek in greeting. Shadows of Flames A Novel The odor of stephanotis, mingled with the sharper perfume of carnations, seemed almost visible. Carnival Through the bars of the railings on each side of them there were intertwined the runners of the largest and most powerfully scented stephanotis which I have ever seen. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses To come into her presence was like entering a fragrant English garden, after stifling for an hour in a conservatory where the air was heavy with the perfume of stephanotis. Brooke's Daughter A Novel Her hair was once again piled on the top of her head, a wreath of stephanotis surrounding it, and she stood in silent ecstasy gazing at her image in the glass. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z To bed at last in a room scented with orange-blossoms, and around the windows of which the sweet stephanotis clusters in beauty—to bed, to sleep, and dream of all we have done and seen. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure One portion of the garden contained large bushes of stephanotis and alamanda in full bloom, and close by was a glorious display of the Egyptian lotus in flower. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Palms waved over the square stone monuments—stephanotis and jessamine crept about the iron railings. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Before Phyl could answer this recondite question, she found herself enveloped in frills and a vague perfume of stephanotis. The Ghost Girl The atmosphere was heavy with the scent of yellow roses and stephanotis. Vixen, Volume II. “You don’t think so, uncle,” said the girl, smiling through her tears, as she rearranged the old officer’s tie, and gave a dainty touch to the stephanotis in the buttonhole of his blue frock coat. Witness to the Deed She always uses stephanotis scent that she gets from one special place in London, and it costs four and sixpence a bottle. A Patriotic Schoolgirl He looked up, and as he did so a stephanotis flower fell into the street and his eyes were met by two of clear azure blue. There was a King in Egypt He suggests that the wreaths are of stephanotis, that large-leaved myrtle, which was sacred to the Chthonian goddesses after the liberation of Semele from Hades by her son Dionysus. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series "Your flowers should be stephanotis," he said, and that was all, as he followed her down the stairs. The Man and the Moment The brown fingers of the peasant women are tying and pressing all the miraculous bloom of the earth into the fair fingers of Saxon girls—great packages of roses, pink lilies, clematis, stephanotis, and honeysuckle. Mike Fletcher A Novel The various paths are shaded by pepper-trees, entwined with bougainvillæa, while in many places the railings are completely covered by long trailing masses of stephanotis in full bloom. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Olive darted off at once to execute the commission, and soon returned with a rose set round with stephanotis. Muslin And in the bow with which he further defined his discomfort he added to it by dropping the bit of stephanotis which he wore in his buttonhole. A Daughter of To-Day "Won't you take it off?" he suggested—"and see, I have got you some flowers——" and he brought her a great bunch of stephanotis which lay waiting upon a table near. The Man and the Moment The flowers were selected with this view, and the great bowls of roses all blushed the same glorious tint through the snowy whiteness of the stephanotis. Six Women It was a white house in a garden, and after rain the scent of vanilla and stephanotis rose round it like a fog. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 For the funeral there were crosses and wreaths of white flowers, roses and stephanotis. A Mere Accident He walked directly to a large pot of stephanotis in a distant corner and picked the stump of a gold-tipped cigarette from thence. The Crimson Blind "There is no orange-blossom—because that is for real weddings—but won't you just put this bit of stephanotis in your hair?" and he broke off a few blooms. The Man and the Moment O dear, no; they are so lovely," answered Clarissa, bending over a pyramid of stephanotis, "one can scarcely have too many of them. The Lovels of Arden Perhaps it was because she was so different from the woman who was always steeped in stephanotis. Thoroughbreds The dinner was laid on a table in the centre, and the table was covered with tuberoses and stephanotis, surrounding the cupid fountain of perfume. Three Weeks The ushers and the groom wear very large boutonnieres of stephanotis and gardenias, or equally large bunches of lilies-of-the-valley, in their button-holes. Manners and Social Usages Not the rose, or the violet, or the hyacinth, or any of the lilies or stephanotis or boronia. My Tropic Isle Nowadays the bridal wreath is almost entirely composed of orange-blossom, on a background of maiden-hair fern, with a sprig of stephanotis interspersed here and there. The Folk-lore of Plants There was a strong evil odor of stephanotis wafted to his nostrils as the speaker shook her fan with impatient decision. Thoroughbreds For the funeral there were crosses and wreaths of white flowers, roses, and stephanotis. Celibates Carved-wood barrows fitted with tin inside may hold a growing plant—stephanotis, hyacinths, ferns, ivy, or any other hardy plant—and are very pleasing souvenirs. Manners and Social Usages Vines are trained about the sides—the stephanotis or some one of the countless fragrant and blossoming trailers which abound in the islands. Following the Equator — Part 1 I don't believe you would smell the paint, and in any case I believe there is some new kind of paint which smells delicious, like stephanotis, I am told, so I will order that. The Professional Aunt The stephanotis was choking his nostrils, and an occasional word was filling his heart with confirmation of his suspicions. Thoroughbreds He was strolling lazily along, smoking as usual, and he held a spray of stephanotis in his hand—well I knew who had given it to him! Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Overhead the green, shining leaves of stephanotis spread a canopy, pale clusters of its white, heavy-scented bloom gleaming star-like in the faint light of Chinese lanterns swung from the leaf-clad roof. The Lamp of Fate He felt as though he were in a hot-house full of gardenias and stephanotis. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches The faintest whiff of stephanotis came to her on the lazy summer air. Thoroughbreds Even the exotic stephanotis failed to obliterate the harsh, mercenary intensity of the feminine cry at the back of Allis. Thoroughbreds Allis knew who the friends were; the clinging touch of stephanotis had come with him. Thoroughbreds Her skin was wonderful, of a smooth, creamy-white texture which gave to the sharply angled face something of the pale, exotic perfection of a stephanotis bloom. The Lamp of Fate Somehow his presence had oppressed her; perhaps it was the fierce stephanotis that came in clouds from the lady behind that smothered her senses. Thoroughbreds The sensuous odor of stephanotis, that had not repelled in the old life, had come to suggest a pestilence in his nostrils, made clean by the purity of lilac. Thoroughbreds |
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