piony

A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as

Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various

I dart from beneath the dust, and my coat of mail is like the piony, and as if painted with saffron.

Antar : 1820

Our young piony at the foot of the fir-tree has just blown and looks very handsome, and the whole of the shrubbery border will soon be very gay with pinks and sweet-williams, in addition to the columbines already in bloom.

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

The common ilouble piony is not the kind used in medicine; this is called the female piony; the single flowered one called the male piony, is the right Kind, This ffrows two or three feet hifjh.

The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ... John Hill, Charles Brightly, T. Kinnersley 1812

Take wild valerian root, «inifle - rhe of the oak, piony root, and Conferve of lavender flowers, of each half an ounce; of common treacle or honev enough to make them into a ball.

Sporting Magazine 1795

via the incomparable piony ….relativity can be fun, thanks to Ramamurti Shankar, Yale University.

Galileo, Newton and Einstein for the Masses 2010

via the incomparable piony ….relativity can be fun, thanks to Ramamurti Shankar, Yale University.

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via the incomparable piony ….relativity can be fun, thanks to Ramamurti Shankar, Yale University.

2010 June | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2010