chaliced
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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While Zephyr broods o'er moonlight rill The flowerets droop as if to die, And from their chaliced cup distil The tears of sensibility.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir
Why, one may ask, are some lilies radiantly colored and speckled; others, like the Easter lily, deep chaliced, white, spotless?
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
At the corner of the lawn a standard Magnolia grandiflora of great size held up its chaliced blossoms; at another a tulip-tree was laden with hundreds of yellow flowers.
From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.
Now circling low, with grace divine, She sips the tulip's chaliced wine.
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
Blossoms hold Mines of gold Deep within the farthest heart of each chaliced flower.
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy
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