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Example sentences for "cowslip"

Lexicographically close words:
cowries; cowry; cows; cowshed; cowskin; cowslips; cowt; coxa; coxae; coxal
  1. How poor Nesta would have enjoyed the gingerbread and milk, let alone the gingerbread and cowslip wine which she was never to taste, for her diet at the Hoggs' was the reverse of appetising.

  2. Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank; But the yellow cowslip eat, That will make it very sweet.

  3. They had cowslip wine in green glasses, and elderberry wine in red, and they drank each other's health.

  4. They prepared some hot broth for him, and opened a bottle of cowslip wine.

  5. The "cinque spotted cowslip bells" brought only thoughts of wine to her.

  6. His good nature had taken off the keenest edge of her sufferings, and nuts with cowslip wine began to assert their legitimate influence.

  7. And Peggy took her milk pails still, And sang her evening song, To milk her cows on Cowslip Hill For half the summer long.

  8. Spring's Messengers Where slanting banks are always with the sun The daisy is in blossom even now; And where warm patches by the hedges run The cottager when coming home from plough Brings home a cowslip root in flower to set.

  9. I Dreamt of Robin I opened the casement this morn at starlight, And, the moment I got out of bed, The daisies were quaking about in their white And the cowslip was nodding its head.

  10. Sport in the Meadows Maytime is to the meadows coming in, And cowslip peeps have gotten eer so big, And water blobs and all their golden kin Crowd round the shallows by the striding brig.

  11. Jacquin) is an eastern counties' plant; while the common forms of the Oxlip are hybrids between the Cowslip and Primrose.

  12. The upright golden Cowslip is compared to one of Queen Elizabeth's Pensioners, who were splendidly dressed, and are frequently noticed in the literature of the day.

  13. Botanically, the Cowslip is a very interesting plant.

  14. The true Oxlip (Primula eliator) is so like both the Primrose and Cowslip that it has been by many supposed to be a hybrid between the two.

  15. What cowslip balls, and what cowslip tea-parties it had afforded us.

  16. Cut flowers are feminine frivolities in their eyes, and they count nosegays as childish gauds, like daisy chains and cowslip balls.

  17. Crossing Cowslip garth at an angle they get upon Greenbat pasture, where the first fruits of idleness are shown by Twister and Towler breaking away at the cows.

  18. But Cowslip bade her try what Woodsorrel would say, and Woodsorrel thought perhaps Kingcup might know, so Violet went about from one to another, till she was ready to cry again with vexation.

  19. On the grave of Augusta this garland be placed, We'll rifle the spring of its earliest bloom, And there shall the cowslip and primrose be cast, The tears of her country shall water her tomb.

  20. On the grave of Augusta these garlands be placed, We'll rifle the spring of its earliest bloom, And there shall the cowslip and primrose be cast, And the new blossom'd thorn shall whiten her tomb.

  21. Cowslip had been watching him and when she saw his eyes close, she said, "Now!

  22. They put Hans into a dungeon full of horrid creatures, but they let poor Cowslip wander about in the fields outside.

  23. One morning when Hans was crying because the door was locked and because the window bars looked so strong, Cowslip heard him.

  24. I like making cowslip fields grow and apple-trees bloom at a moment’s notice.

  25. The bee is humming in the sun, The yellow cowslip springs, And, hark!

  26. The day of his triumph in the Mercury he made monstrous cowslip balls, and thought that the world had never been sufficiently congratulated upon possessing the ideal simplicity of children.

  27. Bromfield remarks that "the primrose is absent from all the interior region of northern Europe, where the cowslip is indigenous.

  28. The cowslip differs so conspicuously in general appearance from the primrose, that nothing need here be said with respect to their external characters.

  29. The flowers of the cowslip and of the other species of the genus secrete plenty of nectar; and I have often seen humble bees, especially B.

  30. It is, therefore, very improbable that a pure cowslip crossed by a primrose should ever produce a primrose in appearance pure.

  31. The cowslip is habitually visited during the day by the larger humble-bees (namely Bombus muscorum and hortorum), and at night by moths, as I have seen in the case of Cucullia.

  32. Both forms of the Cowslip crossed with Pollen of both forms of the Oxlip.

  33. It is probable that oxlips may be produced either from the cowslip or the primrose as the seed- bearer, but oftenest from the latter, as I judge from the nature of the stations in which oxlips are generally found (2/13.

  34. The question seems well worthy of careful investigation, and I will give my observations on the cowslip in detail.

  35. NOW the bright morning star, Day’s harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.

  36. The urgency of the inquiry somehow seemed to dispose her to cry, as if she thought she had been naughty, and she had to be dismissed to the cowslip ball.

  37. His good nature had taken off the keenest edge of her suffering, and nuts with cowslip wine began to assert their legitimate influence.

  38. What difficulties they escaped by missing the northern route the Auto Boys used, and what danger of straying into the Cowslip marshes they thus avoided, the travelers never discovered.

  39. Perhaps it should be explained that, following their uncomfortable experience in pursuit of the Auto Boys through the Cowslip marshes, Mr. Gouger had even less admiration for Marshal Wellock than he had entertained before.


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