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A Chilhowee Lily 1911

by Mary Noailles Murfree

2019-04-16 23:48:40

The cluster grew in a niche on the rocky verge of a precipice beetling over the windings of the rugged primitive road on the slope of the ridge. The great pure white bloom, trumpet-shaped and crowned with its flaring and many-cleft paracorolla, disti ... Read more
The cluster grew in a niche on the rocky verge of a precipice beetling over the windings of the rugged primitive road on the slope of the ridge. The great pure white bloom, trumpet-shaped and crowned with its flaring and many-cleft paracorolla, distinct against the densely blue sky, seemed the more ethereal because of the delicacy of its stalk, so erect, so inflexibly upright. About it the rocks were at intervals green with moss, and showed here and there heavy ocherous water stain. The luxuriant ferns and pendant vines in the densely umbrageous tangle of verdure served to heighten by contrast the keen whiteness of the flower and the isolation of its situation. Less

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Publisherpublic domain ebooks
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781318884117,
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Mary Noailles Murfree
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Born in near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, The United States January 24, 1850 Died: July 31, 1922 Genre: Literature & Fiction AKA Charles Egbert Craddock Mary Noailles Murfree is in the English lan...

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