My wife was a good, brave soul, but our reverses broke her down, and on one spring day we laid her away beneath the daisies and the myrtle.
Miss Forsythe was deeply moved and illustrated by picking imaginary daisies on the porch.
She sat stiffly on the red plush seat while the young lady talked reassuringly of daisies and cows and green grass.
Ardelia's quick eye followed her gestures, and stooping, she scooped the heads from three daisies and started back with them.
Now run right out in the grass and pick all the daisies you want.
They carried him away and laid him on the straw, and gave the table and its covering a thorough cleansing; and the buckets of blood-red water that they threw out across the grass plot gave to the pale daisies a still deeper hue of crimson.
In one place it ran: "Welcome, yellow buttercups, welcome daisies white, Ye are in my spirit visioned a delight.
I wasn't looking for buttercups anddaisies either.
Between the buttercups and the daisies I left the bed with a light head and wobbly legs.
If I had looked from any of our windows and seen daisies and buttercups in March, I'd have fallen over with the shock.
And as fielddaisies are a little more numerous than imperial roses, it follows that I very often stoop.
The daisies which you gather, the maidens from whom you cut handfuls of hair excellent for stuffing mattresses, your rustic beauties with cheeks like rosy apples are conquests worthy of counter-jumpers in their Sunday clothes.
In days when daisies deck the ground, And blackbirds whistle clear, With honest joy our hearts will bound To see the coming year"-- sings Burns.
Let him say,-- "The daisiesand the buttercups Gild all the lawn.
And we stayed so long that when we drove home the daisies had all shut up, and the little pink leaves outside made it look like a field of red clover.
The grass was all full of daisies to-day--perfectly powdered with them.
How beautiful was the firelight on the nearest larkspurs and geraniums and daisies of our garden!
He walked towards the house across the short fine turf, all unlike the Vicarage lawn with its intruding daisies and dandelions, smiling a little to himself over his own discomfiture.
Vicar, beginning to walk hastily up and down under, the cedar, and crushing the daisies that peeped up through the not too carefully trimmed grass.
The Frenchman moved a little farther back, still in a courtier's attitude, with his hat in his hand, looking intently at the Prince, who stood on the steps of the sundial with the violet daisies brushing his cloak and boots.
He was not looking at the Frenchman, but down at the bed of daisies that he stirred gently with his whip as he spoke.
They came to a little hollow beside the path that was filled with spring flowers opening to the dawn, daisies and lilies and tufts of fresh green.
She had pulled a bunch of daisiesand was joining them up into a daisy chain.
She had on a blue silk frock, and a white straw hat with daisies round it; open-worked stockings were on her pretty little legs.
O'er their beds the grasses creeping Weave a robe of royal fold, And the daisies add their homage, Flinging down a cloth of gold.
You will look like a field ofdaisies and clover, dearies," said grandmamma.
Up to now she had had to take what beauty she could as she went along, snatching at little bits of it when she came across it--a patch of daisies on a fine day in a Hampstead field, a flash of sunset between two chimney pots.
She was sitting in a low round chair with cushioned back, and chair and cushion and child were all heaped and garlanded with flowers, daisies and lilies, pink hawthorn and great drifts of snowballs.
The daisies all danced ’neath the feet of her, The roses turned faint at the sweet of her; The firefly’s spark Came and lit up the dark, Just to show us the picture complete of her!
There is all the difference in the world between Michaelmas Daisies grown in rich soil and good air and those grown in starved conditions.
Geraniums and Marguerite Daisies will stand rather poor soil, but Calceolarias, Begonias, and Heliotrope want good treatment if they are to flourish.
The Michaelmas Daisiessoon made big bushes, and did very well.
Michaelmas Daisies lose much of their beauty if they are tied up in untidy bundles; but it is impossible to avoid tying them if they stand in an open border where they may be caught by autumn gales.
The Cricket Match I think there has not been so much on a cricket match since the day when Sir Horace Mann walked about Broad Ha'penny agitatedly cutting down the daisies with his stick.
I listened, with budding daisies at my feet, and over Wenlock spire a magic purple light.
With all the daisies and buttercups waving in the fields and the men heaping the mown grass into fragrant cocks or tossing it into heavily laden carts.
The faint, dry fragrance of paper daisies was in the air; a native cuckoo calling.
In the open back of the buggy behind them lay a long box with wreaths and bunches of paper daisies and budda blossoms over it.
And on the shingly soil, between the old dumps cast up a little distance from the huts, in every direction, the paper daisies were lying, white as driven snow in the wan light.
The road, no more than a track of wheels on shingly earth, wound lazily through paper daisies growing in drifts beside it, and throwing a white coverlet to the dim, circling horizon.
Paper daisies fringe the gold, and then they lie, white as snow, for miles, under the bare blue sky.
Sophie was conscious of the sunshine, warm and bright, over the plains, the fragrance of paper daisies in the air; the cuckoos calling in the distance.
It's the smell of the paper daisies and the sandal-wood smoke, I suppose.
They celebrate the gladness of spring with its cuckoos and throstle-cocks, its daisies and woodruff.
The tough Puritan stock had at last put forth a {463} blossom which compared with the warm, robust growths of English soil even as the delicate wind flower of the northern spring compares with the cowslips and daisies of old England.
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