Here and there lay decomposed trunks, covered as though with a carpet of most beautiful ORCHIDS, with flowers brightly colored like butterflies and brightly colored cups in the center of the crown.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
When we made a Mrs. Cameron bouquet, we used to put in it white honey-flowers and the pink giraffe ORCHIDS that grow on a long stem, for the colour of her cheeks, scarlet-runners for her mouth, and fly-catchers for her hair.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The men wear their hair long, tied up with a bright silk scarf, and the women wear theirs coiled on the top of their heads with a white crescent comb in it, and often a bunch of yellow ORCHIDS.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch