The jonquils on the piano shone in the polished mahogany like yellow water-lilies in a pool.
In the little drawing room to which they returned, the jonquils seemed to have received fresh vigor from their hour of loneliness; their shining gold possessed the shadows.
They left the little drawing-room, with its jonquils and warm shadows, and went along a short hall, and then down three steps and across a landing to the dining-room beyond.
Daffodils and jonquils are yellow and early enough to suit the most impatient," remarked James.
Flowers that grow directly from the ground like crocuses or jonquils or daffodils or narcissus--the spring bulbs--should be set into flat bowls through netting that will hold them upright.
Whatever we plant for the summer yellow border we must have the yellow spring bulbs right behind it--jonquils and daffodils and yellow tulips and crocuses.
I'm going to take up some roots of daffydils and some jonquils and a stalk of that flowering shrub by the walk.
By spring he would hardly know the change--any more than the daffodils and the jonquils that he had planted in a corner by the fence with some lilies of the valley.
In this particular March, however, jonquils and forget-me-nots were still sleeping soundly beneath the snow, and the brook was silent.
These are the first jonquils I have seen this year, and finer I never beheld!
While Victoire leaned over the battlements of the bridge, watching the rising of these stars of fire, a sudden push from the elbow of some rude passenger precipitated her pot of jonquils into the Seine.
Illustration] There are combinations of flowers which give prettier effect than does one flower alone, such as jonquils and violets, or white hyacinths, or mignonette and Roman hyacinths, or scarlet carnations and white roses.
It well may be there are eternal days For every frailest thing, beyond this door, Where roses are not ruined any more, And April with her jonquils stays and stays, Outlingering walls of granite where they blow .
She dropped two or three dead jonquils and ran out into the hall to open the door.
But the next morning Nell was standing in the dining-room window, snipping off the dead jonquils from a bunch in a bowl, when, glancing up, she saw Ted coming in at the gate.
Even across the chin-tickling tops of those yellow jonquils this morning, I almost laughed to see the blond, blond shine of you.
Through the open window came the rich odor of the long rows of narcissus in full white glory where the jonquils had flamed a month ago.
Jonquils were flaming from every walkway, the violets beginning to lift their blue heads from their dark green leaves and the trees overhead were hanging with tassels behind which showed the clusters of fresh buds bursting into leaf.
The border of tall jonquils were in full bloom, a gorgeous yellow flame leaping from both sides of the narrow walkway which circled the high brick wall covered with a mass of honeysuckle.
Evelina was sitting at the table; the jonquils rose slenderly between herself and Mr. Ramy.
One day there was a shy knock on the back-room door, and Johnny Hawkins came in with two yellow jonquils in his fist.
The winter passed in its turn, and March reappeared with its galaxies of yellow jonquils at the windy street corners, reminding Ann Eliza of the spring day when Evelina had come home with a bunch of jonquils in her hand.
Spring was making itself unmistakably known to the distrustful New Yorker by an increased harshness of wind and prevalence of dust, when one day Evelina entered the back room at supper-time with a cluster of jonquils in her hand.
Evelina, meanwhile, had taken the bundle of dried grasses out of the broken china vase, and was putting the jonquils in their place with touches that lingered down their smooth stems and blade-like leaves.
He had been very much subdued since the developments of that first day of the trial, sat mostly in his own room, and had twice brought me a bunch of jonquils as a peace-offering.
A loose arrangement ofjonquils and their leaves, or of white narcissus, is effective.
But when he saw her with the vase of jonquils in her hand, and the empty box in which they had come at her feet, his stout heart failed him a little.
But the jonquils in the box were very fresh and lovely.
He saw her with the vase of jonquils in her hand .
Already the jonquils were in bud and the lilac was beginning to shoot, and the wall flowers would soon be out.
The jonquils were opening their golden petals; the birds were singing in the trees and on the hedges.
I, 'how much you must have missed the canopy of white velvet painted over with jonquils and butterflies!
Much alarmed, I started from my couch, which was of exquisite workmanship; the coverlet of flowered gold, and the canopy of white velvet painted over with jonquils and butterflies, by Michael Angelo.
Mrs. Cary and Blair left their roses and jonquils and with the Doctor moved to the old Bellows place, where they were as happy as they had ever been in the days of their greatest prosperity.
Just then a young girl came around the corner of the house, her dark eyes full of light; her hair blown back from her forehead by the morning breeze, and her hands full of jonquils and other early flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jonquils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
