Word: cyclamen
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...Sicily love, like honor, is a potent force, and one night when the larks were still in the mountains overhead and the dew was heavy on the cyclamen, Antonina lowered a note from her win dow on a long, silken cord. On it was written the single word "Giuseppe." Giuseppe received it on bended knee, unable to move for sheer adoration. The following Sunday, when Antonina's mother went to waken her daughter, she found her gone. "Those two young doves," said a villager as he told of it later, "had flown." That afternoon when the doves had returned...
When the sun was shining outdoors and Demuth turned his lapidary instinct on the poppies, cyclamen and zinnias in his mother's garden, or the fruits and vegetables for her kitchen, the results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection...
...rooftops, instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds parted and a shaft of feeble, wintry sunlight strained through the dirty glass...
Madame Garnett, a sinewy, vivacious Russian approaching a prosperous middle age, displayed some items herself. Sophisticated guests applauded everything, jotted down style names ("Fifth Avenue," "Solitude"), descriptions ("cyclamen," "red and royal blue"). The piece de résistance was a black evening gown called "Tuileries" (price...
...nine paintings, "Cyclamen," "Spider Wort," "Yellow Iris," "Spring Flowers," "Victorian Parlour," "Autumn Flowers," "Peonies," "Still Life," and "Bee Balm" are arranged over the book shelves, which are covered with light brown paper to give a monotone background...