quill

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A little lower, amidst patches of yet frozen snow, hyacinths scent the air, yellow squills and blue anemones peep out, clumps of golden iris cluster between the rocks.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

The down-lands around are purple in its season with the beautiful Cornish heather, and golden with gorse, while dodder grows freely over the hedges; near the shore there is abundance of squills, sea-holly, and sea-campion.

From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)

All their heads I tore away, And cover'd them with flour and bread crumbs over, And then prepared them as I dress'd the squills.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

I have tasted rue, I have tasted aloes, I have tasted quassia, and I have nearly died of squills.

From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick

In fact, apart from a bag of jaded acid-drops, there were only two pleasant inmates of this cupboard—the silvery and lucent syrup of squills and a round box of honey and borax.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton