1 Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white plum tree.
2 All this was in the natural order of things, and the orchid basking in its artificially created atmosphere could round the delicate curves of its petals undisturbed by the ice on the panes.
3 The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and producing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.
4 Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my button-hole.
5 I can't afford orchids, but I spare no expense in foreigners.
6 There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids and as subtle in colour.
7 You must go down to Richmond at once, see Harden personally, and tell him to send twice as many orchids as I ordered, and to have as few white ones as possible.
8 "Let me get you some orchids, Duchess," cried Dorian, starting to his feet and walking down the conservatory.
9 Beyond the turrets of the outer wall the jungle glared and shrieked, and the sun was furious above drenched orchids.
10 In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst.
11 Michaelis came: in summer, in a pale-coloured suit and white suede gloves, with mauve orchids for Connie, very lovely, and Act I was a great success.
12 It cannot much matter to him whether it is early or late for the orchids.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House