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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Very different from those fine hazel irids that were flashing fun and gallantry into hers with every glance.
The Old Helmet 1864
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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
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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
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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.
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