All 6 Uses
Narcissus
in
Anne Of Green Gables
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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.
p. 242.9 *narcissus = a type of flower
- Anne came through the hall, her hands full of white narcissus,
p. 286.2
- ...it was long before Anne could love the sight or odor of white narcissus again,
p. 286.2
- When Marilla went home Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.†
p. 72.4
- "I've had that said to me before, but I have my doubts about it," remarked skeptical Anne, sniffing at her narcissi.†
p. 73.1
- There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.†
p. 84.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(Narcissus as in: Greek Mythology) Greek mythology: a handsome young man who fell in love with his own reflection
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(2)
(narcissus as in: narcissus flowers) a type of flower or flowering plant that includes daffodils
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)