Calices

Such goblets were sometimes known as calices literati. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their back-ground, and the stars of the dead calices of flowers, and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Minister uetuli puer Falerni inger mi calices amariores, ut lex Postumiae iubet magistrae ebrioso acino ebriosioris. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia. ❋ Anthony Doerr (2002)

One of these, a M. Tiquet, a Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fete-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds. ❋ Unknown (1969)

Parliament, sent her on her fête-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds. ❋ Various (N/A)

B, apices, or papillæ, of the pyramids, surrounded by subdivisions of the pelvis known as cups or calices; ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

The closest parallel for the poetic singular cited by _OLD densus_ 3a is Martial IX lxxxvii 1-2 'Septem post calices Opimiani/_denso_ cum iaceam triente [19] blaesus'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

The natives never remove the calices of the rose-flowers, but place the whole into the still as it comes from the garden. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

The herb has a pleasant scent and a bitter, pungent taste, whilst much of its volatile, active principle resides in the calices of the flowers; therefore, in storing or using the plant these parts must be retained. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

I was observing with some pertinacity _Vorticella convallaria_; for one of the calices in a group under observation was in a strange and semi-encysted state, while the remainder were in full normal activity. ❋ Various (N/A)

One might have said that the cloth was laid above giant mushroom-stems, the service acorn-cups and calices of milky blooms; golden was the honey-comb we broke, manna was our bread; she caught the water in her hand from the fountain and pledged me, and swift as sunshine I bent forward and prevented the thirsty lips. ❋ Various (N/A)

In many of the specimens described or preserved from the Merovingian, Carlovingian, and Romanesque periods, it is possible to make a distinction between the ordinary sacrificial chalice used by bishops and priests in the Mass and the calices ministeriales intended for the Communion of the faithful at ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

We have, however, positive evidence that silver dishes were in use, which were called patinæ ministeriales, and which seem to be closely connected with the calices ministeriales in which the consecrated wine was brought to the people. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Her tiny claws must laboriously gather the powder from the calices, which powder she needs must swallow in order to take it back to her lair. ❋ Maurice Maeterlinck (1905)

The bell-shaped or so-called one-petalled calices represent these cloudy connected leaves, which, being more or less indented from above, or divided, plainly show their origin. ❋ Unknown (1904)

To destroy crawling pilferers of pollen, several species coat their calices, at least, with fine hairs or sticky gum; and to insure wide distribution of offspring, the seeds are packed in the attractive, bright red calyx tube or hip, a favorite food of many birds, which drop them miles away. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

Only a few bergamot flowers open at a time; the rest of the slightly rounded head, thickly set with hairy calices, looks as if it might be placed in a glass cup and make an excellent penwiper. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

Calice de [tabarnak] É[tienne], t'as encore oublier de faire ton [lavage]! ❋ Roubi (2021)

[I wish] i could have a [Calice] ❋ Co0nNi99a (2019)

I ate chocolate [for breakfast] because my [belly] was too [calicate]. ❋ Christopher Junior Bus (2011)

my friend : [I miss her] bro.. me : [Bruh calice] u [delusional] fr dog ❋ DINOMASTER HEAR ME OUT (2022)