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    A Chilhowee Lily: 1911
    A Chilhowee Lily: 1911
    A Chilhowee Lily: 1911
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    A Chilhowee Lily: 1911

    By Mary Noailles Murfree

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Chilhowee Lily" (1911) by Mary Noailles Murfree. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateAug 15, 2022
    ISBN8596547175940
    A Chilhowee Lily: 1911

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      A Chilhowee Lily - Mary Noailles Murfree

      Mary Noailles Murfree

      A Chilhowee Lily

      1911

      EAN 8596547175940

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

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      Tall, delicate, and stately, with all the finished symmetry and distinction that might appertain to a cultivated plant, yet sharing that fragility of texture and peculiar suggestion of evanescence characteristic of the unheeded weed as it flowers, the Chilhowee lily caught his eye. Albeit long familiar, the bloom was now invested with a special significance and the sight of it brought him to a sudden pause.

      The cluster grew in a niche on the rocky verge of a precipice beetling over the windings of the rugged primitive road on the slope of the ridge. The great pure white bloom, trumpet-shaped and crowned with its flaring and many-cleft paracorolla, distinct against the densely blue sky, seemed the more ethereal because of the delicacy of its stalk, so erect, so inflexibly upright. About it the rocks were at intervals green with moss, and showed here and there heavy ocherous water stain. The luxuriant ferns and pendant vines in the densely umbrageous tangle of verdure served to heighten by contrast the keen whiteness of the flower and the isolation of its situation.

      Ozias Crann sighed with perplexity as he looked, and then his eye wandered down the great hosky slope of the wooded mountain where in marshy spots, here and there, a sudden white flare in the shadows betokened the Chilhowee lily, flowering in myraids, holding out lures bewildering in their multitude.

      "They air bloomin' bodaciously all

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