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“Our friend Egerton is busy, I hear, Mr. Leslie,” said he, arranging the camelia in his button-hole.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

Then he placed carefully in it the cactus flower and camelia bud, which had never left his hand since he plucked them in the conservatory.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

"The camelia is a more lordly flower, Excellency, but for me I like the violets."

From The Children of the King by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Then she pushed her fat little fist up among the bush of small curls, and began to twist her fingers about her ear that was white like a camelia flower.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

It was a kind of nightmare morning to look back upon, relieved only by the figure of my old Bohemian, with his pea jacket, his black thorn, his puffy, crinkly face, and his camelia.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir