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Narcissus as in: Greek Mythology
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He is like Narcissus gazing in a pool.
Narcissus = Greek mythology: a handsome young man who fell in love with his own reflection
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Our front yard in Abadan was filled with roses, jasmine, and narcissus.† (source)
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It was a beautiful place, crowded with fat-headed narcissus, woven over with oak branches.† (source)
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The narcissus in the garden were white with mildew and the irises were beginning to wilt.† (source)
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From what's right there on the table, which that morning was a bud vase with a paper-white narcissus in it, picked from the bowl of forced bulbs sent over by Winifred.† (source)
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The watery images may further portend disaster in recalling the myth of Narcissus, who, falling in love with his reflection in the water, attempted to join it and so drowned.† (source)
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Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.† (source)
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Yet somewhere deep down a thin thread still ties us to that far-off misty Paradise, where Adam leans over a well and, unlike Narcissus, never even suspects that the pale yellow blotch appearing in it is he himself.† (source)
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He could see his own reflection in a tiny pool edged with moss and lilypads, and he looked at himself for a moment, as fascinated as Narcissus.† (source)
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There would be the smell of crushed narcissus on the sidewalk and lights shining from the night tables of second-story windows.† (source)
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What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissus were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds.† (source)
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Angelo, then, evil Duke of Squamuglia, has perhaps ten years before the play's opening murdered the good Duke of adjoining Faggio, by poisoning the feet on an image of Saint Narcissus.† (source)
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"I guess it takes a lot of narcissus to spell Catherine," Virgie called, when Cassie still did not pass her.† (source)
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Narcissus, with one pustule.† (source)
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narcissus as in: narcissus flowers
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Anne came through the hall, her hands full of white narcissus,
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narcissus = a type of flower
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There was a small bunch of white narcissi, already wilted, the stems wrapped in aluminum foil.† (source)narcissi = flowers of a particular type
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In the font hundreds of white narcissi seemed to be growing.† (source)
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Th' very little ones are snowdrops an' crocuses an' th' big ones are narcissuses an' jonquils and daffydowndillys.† (source)
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She moved through the sunlit garden, gathering narcissi, crimson-eyed and white.† (source)narcissi = flowers of a particular type
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...it was long before Anne could love the sight or odor of white narcissus again, (source)narcissus = a type of flower
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A waiter passed her, followed by a sweetly scented woman in a fluttering dress of green chiffon whose mingled pattern of narcissuses, jonquils, and hyacinths was a reminder of pleasantly chill spring days.† (source)narcissuses = flowers of a particular type
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in the other (for, since I thought of names not as an inaccessible ideal but as a real and enveloping substance into which I was about to plunge, the life not yet lived, the life intact and pure which I enclosed in them, gave to the most material pleasures, to the simplest scenes, the same attraction that they have in the works of the Primitives), I moved swiftly—so as to arrive, as soon as might be, at the table that was spread for me, with fruit and a flask of Chianti—across a Ponte Vecchio heaped with jonquils, narcissi and anemones.† (source)
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But somehow—I don't know how it is but when Anne and them are together, though she ain't half as handsome, she makes them look kind of common and overdone—something like them white June lilies she calls narcissus alongside of the big, red peonies, that's what. (source)narcissus = a type of flower
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They're crocuses an' snowdrops, an' these here is narcissuses," turning to another patch, "an here's daffydowndillys.† (source)narcissuses = flowers of a particular type
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Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets.† (source)
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Against a setting of white narcissi, white trelliswork bowers, and lighted tapers in silver sconces festooned with bunches of faux black Muscadine grapes bedecked with spiralling silver ribbon, Mrs. Prior received in a gracious Chanel gown of ashes-of-roses with a draped skirt, its bodice ornamented with discreet seed pearls.† (source)
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The air was dim and coloured from the windows and thrilled with a subtle scent of lilies and narcissi.† (source)
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When Marilla went home Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.† (source)
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