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  • The predominant vegetation types are fynbos and renosterveld, and most of the endemics are geophytes, especially irids in the genera Babiana, Moraea, Romulea, and Lapeirousia.

    Succulent Karoo 2008

  • Her friend had quicker vision than herself; and Caroline seemed to think that the secret of her eagle acuteness might be read in her dark grey irids: or rather, perhaps, she only sought guidance by the direction of those discriminating and brilliant spheres.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • If her forehead shone luminous with the reflex of a halo, I knew in the fire of whose irids that circlet of holy flame had generation.

    Villette 2003

  • He could escape for a time from his coil of similes and paint for himself the irids of her large, long, grey eyes darkly rimmed; purest water-grey, lucid within the ring, beneath an arch of lashes.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • He could escape for a time from his coil of similes and paint for himself the irids of her large, long, grey eyes darkly rimmed; purest water-grey, lucid within the ring, beneath an arch of lashes.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • He could escape for a time from his coil of similes and paint for himself the irids of her large, long, grey eyes darkly rimmed; purest water-grey, lucid within the ring, beneath an arch of lashes.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • Very different from those fine hazel irids that were flashing fun and gallantry into hers with every glance.

    The Old Helmet 1864

  • It was white with dark oval spots, and lay staring out of wide-open eyes, with canoe-shaped pupils, and great green irids.

    Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

  • Very different from those fine hazel irids that were flashing fun and gallantry into hers with every glance.

    The Old Helmet, Volume I Susan Warner 1852

  • No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him.

    Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

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