He had long ceased to wear his rosette of the Legion of Honour, and he had replaced his white billycock by an English straw hat.

It forms rosettes of large, deep green, shiny foliage and stout spikes of rose-coloured flowers in whorls, which make it one of the most attractive of Thistles.

Had I the power I would serve him as I serve this badge of his!" Tearing the rosette from his breast, he cast it into the flaming fire.

Rock-ferns, too, are here, such as allosorus, pellaea, and cheilanthes, making handsome rosettes on the drier fissures; and the delicate maidenhair, cistoperis, and woodsia hide back in mossy grottoes, moistened by some trickling rill; and then the orange wall-flower holds up its showy panicles here and there in the sunshine, and bahia makes bosses of gold.

These ribbons matched the rosettes presented in an equally haphazard way to every man.

Wilson had pinned a blue and white rosette upon his coat, and everybody knew him as their champion.

In a moment her soft fingers attached the rosette to his jacket.

You remember that orange-colored rosette in the fellow's button-hole?" "Certainly I do.

It was now scudding along like a Lilliputian boat, the huge rosettes of crimson ribbon standing out like sails.

Great plants, as yet unnamed, grew among the roots of the big trees, and spread rosettes of huge green fans towards the strip of sky.

She would just sit and listen till they'd run off the story, and hemstitched it, and embroidered it, and stuck fancy rosettes all over it.

Some houses have doors ornamented with rustic columns, scroll-work, recessed pediments, chubby-cheeked caryatides, little angels and loves, stout rosettes and enormous shells, all glued over with whitewash renewed doubtless every year.

The simple stucco ceiling presents a central rosette, which passes over by light conventional floral forms into the general pattern of the ceiling.

I found the rosettes that moved the catches and had the panel out in a twinkling.

she cried, holding up in her hand a rosette with a long, coloured streamer.