"Flowerbed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... papa or mama plant seeds in the garden or in the flowerbed. The warm sun and the ...
— Light On the Child's Path • William Allen Bixler
... insect can easily penetrate: and they habitually grow close together in broad belts or patches, so that the colour of each reinforces and aids the colour of the others. It is this cumulative habit that accounts for the marked flowerbed or jam-tart character which everybody must have noticed in the high ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen
... Fortnightly. Dorian Gray was published some considerable time ago, so it belongs to ancient history, and now, after this lapse of time, out comes the preface. And this "preface" occupies the better part, I use this expression in all courtesy, of two pages; which two pages represent a literary flowerbed, where rows of bright asterisks are planted between lines of brilliant aphorisms. The rule of the arrangement seems to be.—"when in doubt, plant asterisks." Sic itur ad astra. The garden is open to all, let us cull; here one and there one. "To reveal Art and conceal the Artist, is Art's aim." ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. March 14, 1891. • Various |
