You couldn't persuade her that the white irises that grew about our pond weren't enchanted princesses.
The moonlight was whirled along in the braided current, the wavelets winked and whispered, the irises seemed to lean over asleep.
At the edge of the brook stood the tall irises brokenly reflected in the running water.
So--if the slight shooting pains in my head plus the shutting of the irises when I face into the room are any criteria--I must be a nocturnal beast of some kind.
He saw startled-looking eyes, round as quarters, with red irises that dilated greatly with each tilt of his head toward the shadowy rear of the cage, and narrowed the orifice about the pupil to a pinprick when he turned near the front.
Here in a jar on the table A fine proud spike of purple irises Rising above the class-room litter, makes me unable To see the class's lifted and bended faces Save in a broken pattern, amid purple and gold and sable.
The irises restrained their perfume lest it should whip his senses; only the young larch-trees and the far fields sent him their fugitive sweetness through the dark.
Their pupils were contracted to pin-points, the light-grey irises around had a sort of swimming glitter, and round these again the whites were injected with blood.
I believe there are some wonderful irises out in the Friar's Garden," said Marcella.
Irises in every ravishing shade of purple, lilac, and gold, carpets of daffodils and narcissus, covered the ground, and ran into each corner and cranny of the old wall.
But these circular irises of colours are not only different from the colours of the silks above mentioned, but are at the same time perpetually changing as long as they exist.
So Pauline got ready; and they slipped away from the house, hoping that nobody would call them back, and hurrying through the wicket into the paddock where the irises hung all sodden.
But I ought not to have deserted thoseirises that Garstin sent me from the Taurus.
How sad it was to think of the months that must pass before that small meadow would be speckled with fritillaries or with irises blow white and purple.
The irises have all been taken, but what was the lowest clump, opposite Syon House, has lost its pride of place, for now there are some by the Grove Park Estate below Kew Bridge.
Off the road a few tulips and dwarf irises coming up out of the dry ground show the change of season.
Borders of irises with violet fragrance dissolving among their stems, a profusion of spreading boughs, and near our bench a thicket from which at intervals darts the straight streak of a gray-bird's flight.
I have no Japanese Irises in my garden, but a kind neighbor sends me superb cut-blooms from his perfect Iris border.
The cultivated hardy Irises are of several colors.
On April 3rd the first of the pretty little wild tulips striped white and pink appeared, and on the following day the first of the large dark purple irises and two or three large white irisescame into bloom.
And whether it was more entrancing now, or three weeks later when the irises were over, but when it was wreathed in white roses, it would be difficult to say.
Irises and roses are the two especial beauties of Kashmir villages and Kashmir lanes and hedgerows.
She paused and regarded the irises with a puzzled frown, still trying to examine her narrative critically.
She was looking dreamily at the nodding blue and orange irises wading a third of the way across the stream; she did not see Eric’s involuntary shudder and stiffening.
It was draped with colored muslins in the rainbow tints, and though real irises were unobtainable, some vases of artificial ones formed a very good substitute.
The silence made the impression of the irises stay.
There was a bowl of iriseson the breakfast-table--it made everything seem strange.
Perhaps she had thought of it when she put the irises on the table.
On Plate 3, five species of charming and early flowering Bulbous Irises are shown, and a glance will show that no description could do real justice to the charming beauty of the blossoms.
As a rule the best time to plant bulbous Irises is in September or October, but not later.
From Asia Minor and Turkestan, the Chionodoxas, and many bulbous Irises and Fritillarias have been introduced.
The irises were just over when I first got here, but judging from the crowds of flower-stalks they must have been very beautiful.
He was doing something to the irises when I came down, and though I went out and lingered round him before beginning breakfast he took no notice; he just went on with the irises.
She did not grow irises down one side of a brook and arrowheads down the other.
So Peter asked if the irises crossed the brook and ran down both sides.
The early Irisesare not difficult to grow in moderately light and well drained soil, but they should usually be afforded a warm and sheltered site.
And clouds are lovely too, if reflected in a sheet of water beside which yellowirises spring up, and their foliage looks rather bluish.
Her lips were finely made of deep carmine; the irises of her eyes were delicate, breakable blue, like china eyes.
He loved her dark radiance, the white irises of her eyes, the warm, lustrous enthusiasm of her smile.
Flags and tall yellow irises and the greenest of green tufts grow in the water and about the foundations of the bridges.
The irises and bur-reeds line the low banks above the weir, and a line of short black poplars give some shade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
