It was soon done, and the dark hyacinthine curves fell on her neck.
很快就完成了, 黑色的风信子曲线落在她的脖子上。
美丽与毁灭(上)
The night was alive with thaw; it was so nearly warm that a breeze drifting low along the sidewalk brought to Anthony a vision of an unhoped-for hyacinthine spring.
As he stood there in the warm light, slender and smooth and hyacinthine, he might have stepped from a ruined altar — one to Antinous, say — but he'd come instead from New York, with a letter (of all people) from Alice Nowell.