But to Valentine this half-acre of smooth lawn and Wimbledon gravel pathway had seemed fair as those pleasure gardens of Semiramis, at the foot of the Bagistanos mountain, the fame whereof tempted Alexander to turn aside from the direct road, during his march from chelone to the Nysaic horse pastures.
"Charlotte's Inheritance"
M. E. Braddon
A chelone, three feet long, was brought us, remarkable for seven shields on the middle of its back.
"A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2"
Otto von Kotzebue
But that of chelone glabra, as modest and withdrawn as the flower itself, seems hardly to belong in the swamp for all the beauty of the place.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard