Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladioles
Literary usage of Gladioles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1869)
"The gladioles have bilabiate flowers of great brilliancy; they are chiefly natives
of Southern Africa. ..."
2. Victorian Poets by Edmund Clarence ( Stedman (1901)
""They chase them each, below, above,— Half maddened by their minstrelsy, — Thro'
garths of crimson gladioles ; And, shimmering soft like ..."
3. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville: With by Mary Somerville (1874)
"The orchises and the gladioles are the chief flowers now, but such a variety and
such colours! You see we have our quiet pleasures. ..."
4. Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
"IN girandoles of gladioles The day had kindled flame; And Heaven a door of gold
and pearl Unclosed when Morning, — like a girl, A red rose twisted in a curl ..."
5. Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
"IN girandoles of gladioles The day had kindled flame; And Heaven a door of gold
and pearl Unclosed when Morning, ..."
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