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"Calla" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at home;" and the servant ushered him into, a carefully-shaded room, where marble statues gleamed in dusk corners and great flowering plants made the air fresh and cool. It as the first time Tallisker had ever seen a calla lily and he looked with wonder and delight at the gleaming flowers. And somehow he thought of Helen. Colin sat in a great leathern chair reading. He did not lift his head until the door closed and he was sensible the servant had left some one behind. Then for a moment he could hardly realize ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... whispered her cousin; "not even any of the roast," she added, reproachfully. Sabine was much perturbed. Mr. Jordan had already risen; Anton would leave the room with the rest, and she should not see him again the whole day through. So she called out, "The great Calla is fully blown now. You were admiring the buds the other day; will you remain a moment; I should like to show it you?" Anton bowed and staid behind. A few more awkward moments, then her brother rose too; and, ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... White calla-lilies, with their tall stems and great shadowy leaves, were in the Pompeiian vases on the mantel; in the India jars in the corners below; in a large Oriental china bowl that was set upon the closed desk on the library table, wheeled back for the first time that anybody ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney |
Words linked to "Calla" : genus Zantedeschia, Zantedeschia aethiopica, Calla palustris, Zantedeschia rehmanii, golden calla, calla lily, liliopsid genus, Zantedeschia, black calla, water arum, genus Calla, monocot genus, arum lily, pink calla, arum family, family Araceae, wild calla, flower |
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