A majority are perhaps intermediate, but the two extreme types may be found in any village or hamlet; and when seen side by side-the lily and the rose, not to say the peony-they offer a strange and beautiful contrast.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Balaam went deliberately on, and just as they were going out of the great iron gates, and his lordship was indulging in a pinch of snuff, there was the rattle of wheels to his right, and Cora Dean came along with her ponies at a smart trot, her mother looking like an over-blown peony by her side.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
"Why, I would give-" and here he was overcome by a fit of coughing, which made him turn as red as a peony-"I would give 15,000 florins."
"St. Peter's Umbrella"
Kálmán Mikszáth