Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"Oh, then, you're taking a little trouble, after all," Vera said, laughing, and she vanished vaguely, behind a brocaded portière, leaving a very faint perfume of gilliflower.

From The Twelfth Hour by Leverson, Ada

The thyme and the lavender, the rose and the gilliflower, as also the yellow-eyed narcissus and the shamefaced violet--he weaveth into garlands.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

Right in my ears again, and shew The gilliflower blossom'd new.

From The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by Morris, William

“Who came and helped himself to my gilliflower apples?”

From Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story by Nash, J.

Then pinks and gilliflowers, especially the matted pink and clove gilliflower.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis