That directed the curious glances of other middies at Pennington's new bulbous nose.

Beaumaroy regarded his squat paunchy figure, red face, small eyes (a squint in one of them), and bulbous nose with a patient and benign toleration.

A fat man he was, jolly of figure and mightily round; his nose was bulbous and he had a drooping lip.

" Sending Ned for a spade, I soon unearthed one of the large bulbous roots, which I divided into pieces, and, accompanying the boys to the spring, practically demonstrated its remarkable saponaceous qualities, leaving them delighted with the experiment; but had hardly returned to my blanket again when I was startled by the report of two rifles, that came from below us, near the base of the mountains where our animals were grazing.

The roots are bulbous, and are gathered in large quantities, and thrown into pits containing red-hot stones.

It rises 23 feet 8 inches above the ground, and its base, which is bulbous, is riveted to two stone slabs two feet below the surface.

Further on rise some slender minarets, and not the bulbous roofs of Moscow the Holy, at the angles of an old mosque, into which one can enter without taking off one's boots.

The Mohammedan sanctuaries with their hideous stencil decorations and bulbous domes are jostled by many new shops with blinking fronts and German merchandise.

The sky was a soft blue, bulbous with little puffs of cloud.

They are fond of the crocus, which is the earliest of our bulbous roots.

His bulbous slashed boots flew out in wild strides, and his face was distorted into a permanent grin, because that wrinkled his nose and kept his glasses in place.

Why is it improper to consider the turnip a real bulb? Because it is an intermediate stem which swells into a bulbous form.

Bulbocodium Trigynum (Colchicum Caucasium).A miniature hardy bulbous plant, which produces in February and March erect flowers about the size of snowdrops.

A handsome, hardy, bulbous plant, bearing clusters of beautiful blue flowers in July.

Chionodoxa Luciliae (Glory of the Snow).A pretty hardy spring-flowering bulbous plant.

Charming winter and spring blooming bulbous greenhouse plants, which thrive in a mixture of sandy loam and vegetable mould.

A hardy, summer-flowering, bulbous plant 3 ft. to 4 ft. in height, gracefully surmounted with from twenty to fifty pendent, bell-shaped snow-white flowers.

A genus of very pretty bulbous plants that thrive well in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, or will grow in any light soil.

But the blotchy face, the bulbous nose and the shaggy, overhanging eyebrows were alien features that I could not reconcile with the personality of our refined and aristocratic-looking little assistant.

As we walk the streets and see below us those delightful bulbous heads, three times too big for the body, which mark these human mushrooms, we ought always primarily to remember that within every one of these heads there is a new universe, as new as it was on the seventh day of creation.

Most of the bulbous-rooted flowers contract, or close their petals entirely on the approach of rain.

Some species of bulbous rooted plants produce seeds, but this method of reproduction, can seldom be resorted to in this country, and certainly not to obtain new kinds, as the seeds require to be sown as soon as ripe.

756. , bulbous - - - bulbosus.

140 Sium Falcaria Creeping-rooted Skirret l.b. 141 Phellandrium Mutellina Mountain Phellandrium l.b. 142 Chaerophyllum bulbosum Bulbous-rooted Chaerophyllum c.m.

A very ornamental bulbous plant, of which the Dutch gardeners have many improved varieties, varying in the colour and size of the blossoms: these are usually imported in August, and should be immediately planted, as the bulbs will not keep long when out of ground, unless they are covered with sand.