swordlike

3 large bulbs for pounds 9.99 OFFER 2: ACIDANTHERA X 50 These lovely easy to grow bulbs throw up elegant stems up to one metre high with bright green swordlike foliage and hold graceful, softly-scented, white flowers with purple throats.

The cause of this aversion had already been hinted at in an earlier encounter with Shuley, Ennis, and Connolly on the strand, where he had experienced 'a swordlike pain to see the signs of adolescence that made repellent their pitiable nakedness'; thus Stephen, 'apart from them and in silence, remembered in what dread he stood of the mystery of his own body'.

The angel is selfless and nurturing, yet he grows plants with swordlike leaves.

would have done with that swordlike singleness of heart," Buck

The latter scored an eerie coup via the rubbery-looking electric blue leotard and single swordlike wing of Laura Aikin's Angel.

There were things winded, white, swordlike and edible.

Laurie was sizing up San Esteban's endemic agave, the source of a bootleg tequila industry nearly a century ago, when taverns in Guaymas distilled the bases of its swordlike leaves.

They [the saints] are (indeed,) our pillar-fires Seen as we go, They are that City's shining spires We travel to; A swordlike gleam Kept man for sin First out; this beam Will guide him in.

I touch their swordlike leaves and flash to my own home.

Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus)--with swordlike green leaves and small fleur-delis blossoms in a classic design I'd never seen before--flourished in a large colony by the back door.