 ... rose up and lifted themselves from the blossoms to expose them to the dew, so that each morning these beautiful objects were uncovered ; but as day advanced the leaves gradually drooped, and bent down over the flowers to guard them from the rays of...  Paxton's Flower Garden - Seite 146von John Lindley, Sir Joseph Paxton - 1883 - 179 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1841 - 400 Seiten
...bent down over the flowers to guard them from the rays of the sun. Who can imagine the gorgeousness of an equinoctial forest at midnight with the veils...lifted off myriads of flowers of every form and hue, which are hidden from our gaze in this or other ways during the hours of a tropical sunlit day, whose... | |
 | John Lindley - 1852 - 298 Seiten
...flowers to guard them from the rays of the sun. Who ean imagine the gorgeousness of an equinoetial forest at midnight, with the veils thus lifted off...flowers of every form and hue, all hidden from our gaze by this or other means during the hours of tropieal sunlight, whose brillianey would be death to their... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 620 Seiten
...bent down over the flowera to guard them from the rays of the sun. " Who can imagine the gorgeousness of an equinoctial forest at midnight, with the veils...lifted off myriads of flowers of every form and hue, which are hidden from our gaze, in this or other ways, during the hours of a tropical sun-lit day,... | |
 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 Seiten
...bent down over the flowers to guard them from the rays of the sun. Who can imagine the gorgeousness of an equinoctial forest at midnight, with the veils...lifted off myriads of flowers of every form and hue, which are hidden from our gaze, in this or other ways, during the hours of a tropical sunlit day, whose... | |
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