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Definition of Jonquils
1. jonquil [n] - See also: jonquil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jonquils
Literary usage of Jonquils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE jonquils I have heard that a certain princess, when she found that she had
been married by a demon, wove a wreath of jonquils and sent it to the lover ..."
2. These Times by Louis Untermeyer (1917)
"jonquils A HANDFUL of slender jonquils With candid and innocent eyes— And then,
from the mists of my boyhood, I feel it arise. . . An evening of words and ..."
3. Daffodils, Narcissus, and how to Grow Them as Hardy Plants and for Cut by Arthur Martin Kirby (1907)
"... REGARDED from a garden standpoint, the jonquils form a characteristic group.
They are all cluster-flowered, deep yellow colour, most deliciously scented ..."
4. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble (1864)
"... tufts of silver narcissus and jonquils, a quantity of violets and an exquisite
myrtle bush; wherefore I said my prayers with especial gratitude. ..."
5. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"... Where woodbines and the twisting vine Clip round the pear-tree and the pine ;
And roses 'midst rank clover blow Where mixed jonquils and gowans grow, ..."
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