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It was covered with yellowish rocks and the whitest asphodels set against the already hard blue of the sky.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Of asphodels, “which doe grow naturally in Spaine and France and from thence were first brought unto us to furnish our Gardens.”

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

"The Colonel did not mean hay; he meant asphodels and amaranth and moly."

From Hildegarde's Harvest by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

A fringe of budding little trees and of great pale asphodels; the smell of them and of freshness.

From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon

Late in the afternoon she dressed hurriedly in a delightful frock of transparent blue muslin the colour of asphodels, and prepared for her drive with Quelch.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia