Lexicographical Neighbors of Houstonias
Literary usage of Houstonias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through the Year with Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Wendell Gleason (1917)
"houstonias. How affecting that, annually at this season, as surely as the sun
takes a higher course in the heavens, this pure and simple little flower peeps ..."
2. White Mountain Trails: Tales of the Trails to the Summit of Mount Washington by Winthrop Packard (1912)
"The meadow violets smile bravely blue from shy nooks, and the snow that lingered
so long on the slopes is born again in the gentler white of houstonias ..."
3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1896)
"The children found houstonias more than a week ago. There have been easterly wind,
... houstonias are abundant, blue-whitening some of the pastures. ..."