I have given these details, because the castle ofCalix is a specimen of a style of which we have no fair parallel in England, and the workmanship is far from being contemptible.
The flower is either deep red, or of a dazzling white, though the latter is often found stained with a delicate blush-pink, or a deep green; the latter appears to be caused by the calix running into the petal.
I noticed lime-stone in the cliff atCalix and Tornea.
At these times the townsmen and the peasants meet together at the place of rendezvous, as at Calix every year on the 19th of August, and at Tornea in the depth of winter.
For the calix of a moss-rose the down is left on the feather, and is a very good representation of the moss on the natural flower.
Cut the stems of the feathers even, and then make the calix of feathers, cut like the pattern or natural flower.
Its fruit is tricoccous, hoary on the outside with a calix divided into 5 parts.
Near to the bench on which they sat, the blue flower bloomed by the wayside and ever turned its calix to the sun.
The scented calix out of which Klytia arose was intended as a symbol of the dreamy flower-life of young love, of the tender perfume full of misgivings of a pure woman's mind, whose life is in part the existence of a plant.
He formed the base as the calix of a flower as he had seen in the antique busts in Rome and Florence.
How King Edward [the] thrid had the victorie at the bataile of Scluse, and gate Cane by assaute, and havyng the victorie at the batelle of Cressye [and wanne Calix by sege.
And he also wanne Calix after, by a long and puissaunt sieges keping[107] by see and be londe; and they enfamyned couthe have no socoure of king Philip, and so for faute of vitaile yeldid Calix up to king Edwarde the .
And after whan youre nobille castelle and towne of Calix was beseigid in the yere of Crist M^l.
It puts me in mind of the psalm, Et calix meus inebrians quam præclarus est.
You will observe that in some flowers the calix is composed of four or more parts.
You will notice that in some of these flowers, the calix is highly colored, in others it looks like little green leaves and in some of the flowers the calix is absent.
While the calix and corolla form the most attractive and beautiful parts, they are not the most important parts of a flower.
Without a word Zorzi smashed the calix off the iron into an old earthen jar already half full of broken glass.
She brought him yellow wine of Chios in a glass calix of Murano, blown air-thin upon a slender stem and just touched here and there with drops of tender blue.
It was a graceful calix now, of a deep wine red, clear and transparent as claret.
And if we wish to penetrate the secret we must not forget the Hebrew psalmist, with his calix meus inebrians quam praeclarus est.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calix" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
