adonises

Adonises are very neat in habit, and the foliage is fine and interesting.

A long line of more or less successful Adonises have followed in his footsteps.

At least some of the delphiniums, papavers and adonises germinate very imperfectly, if at all, in direct light.

Peasants imagine themselves princes; Calibans believe themselves to be Adonises; beggars imagine themselves millionaires.

They are not Apollos, and Venuses, nor Adonises, that knock at painters' doors.