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Aloe

noun

(pl. aloes)

Succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa.

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"Aloe" Quotes from Famous Books

... hours succeed, Each clamorous with its own sharp need, And duty keeping pace with all. Shut down and clasp the heavy lids; I hear again the voice that bids The dreamer leave his dream midway For larger hopes and graver fears: Life greatens in these later years, The century's aloe flowers today! ...

— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck

... and arch eyes and Oriental mien of the girls—these persons living in quaint old cities where the brightest flowers bloom amid hanging green over windows far and far above the street and walking in high-walled narrow lanes over which hang the sun-sucking leaves of the indolent aloe, and in which gleam the rich orange and lemon trees, or, as now, the keen lustrous green of just-budding fig-trees, and vines, or entering with quiet enthusiasm into festivals of saints, sprinkling the churches and streets ...

— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke

... with two splendid oleanders fifteen feet high, one on each side the door. Another tropical plant, seen at the North in greenhouses, but here growing ten feet high in the open air, is the American aloe or century-plant. This house will accommodate twenty-five boarders, but it was not full at the time; so we obtained rooms. It is one of the most comfortable places in Florida, with a well-kept table, provided with fish, oysters, turtle and game. New Smyrna is about thirty ...

— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various

... whispered to Frederick: "Sire, a compliment from Kaunitz is like the flower upon the aloe-it ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

Words linked to "Aloe" : succulent, burn plant