If they would only stand still, we might think thedandelions had blossomed.
Haven't we had enough of dandelions in this horrid job without reminding us forever of the work by calling ourselves by that name?
Hence she had to weed dandelions for a test the same as the other girls did, but not without complaints and rebellion on her part.
If dandelions mean our start to a real Scout Troop, we ought to be grateful and honor the weed," giggled Joan.
Say, Ruth, dandelions were easy in comparison," laughed Joan, standing up to wipe the perspiration from her face.
Soon, to Ruth's great amazement, each girl had rooted out the required number of dandelions for the day.
They laughed uproariously at the joke, and decided then and there to tease the other girls at school who were so anxious to join a Patrol, but would not weed the dandelions to earn money for a camp.
And Betty isn't so preachy as she was when we weeded dandelions on your lawn," commented Ruth.
Here were four girls who had to dig dandelions to earn the money to go away on, now having the most wonderful time!
In a few moments unpleasant work and dandelions were forgotten in the delectable pastime of eating fresh cake and drinking lemonade.
I'll not dig dandelions if it isn't going to get us anywhere.
Well, I was thinking how pretty the name would look if Verny prints it on a board sign and paints yellow dandelions all about the words," explained Betty, in an apologetic tone.
Ruth proved her statement that she had outgrown her dislike of dandelions by offering to cut enough plants for the salad.
To try out their patience and powers of endurance, as well as to have them earn money for their simple camp-equipment, Mrs. Vernon suggested that they weed dandelions at a rate of twenty cents a hundred.
By the time they were heated, the dandelions were cooked; and Tom, removing the pan, put some shrimps and mussels in it, to boil over the fire.
The dandelions were not quite cooked as yet; so Tom had to wait; but while doing so, he heated some stones in the fire.
Amid so much new life, it was strange and truly pitiful to behold, here and there, in the fields and pastures, the hoary periwigs of dandelions that had already gone to seed.
And a while after it come slinkin' back, when it thought nobody was mindin', to poke the bit out of the wall where I was gatherin' dandelions under the bank.
It was kept so closely cropped by the Ryans' goat that its dandelions grew dwarfed and stalkless, and were set flat in the fine sward like mock suns.
The air was so still that the seeded dandelions stood day after day with their fairy globes unbereft of a single downy dart, like little puffs of vapour among the grasses.
Examine the large white balls of the dandelions and find out what they are.
Find dandelions late in the evening, and find out how they prepare to go to sleep and how they are tucked in for the night.
Then they would drop in other fields and begin making more dandelions for next year.
And the fields were golden in the sunshine because the dandelions had bloomed again.
And nice green grass, anddandelions and pinks and morning-glories," said Prue, who loved flowers.
You will remember, Davy, how when the dandelionsfirst bloomed they had quite tall stems.
Here Mrs. Comstock found a large bed of tender dandelions and stopped to fill her pail.
Dandelions have a way of making fingers sticky, and I like to know a man before I take his hand, anyway.
The dandelions are plenty tender for greens among the deep grasses, and I might just happen to see something myself.
As she cooked dandelions with bacon, she feared to serve them to him, so she made an excuse that it took too long to prepare them, blanched some and made a salad.
Every few steps she paused and examined the shrubbery carefully, while Mrs. Comstock was watching until her eyes ached, but there were no dandelions in the pail she carried.
Oh, you should taste dandelions boiled with bacon and served with mother's cornbread.
Come early in the morning if you like, and we will go over to Sleepy Snake Creek and hunt moths and gather dandelions for dinner.
The grass came on swiftly, and crocuses and dandelions broke from the sod on the sunny side of smooth hills.
These clouds passed swiftly, the sun came out, the dandelions shone vividly through their coverlet of snow, the eaves dripped, the air was like March, and the sunsets like November.
When it was time for him to have a nap, and mamma went to call him, she noticed that a great many of the dandelions were gone.
The dandelions were very thick there; so that the yard looked yellow, instead of green.
The method of mathematics cannot be applied todandelions and polliwogs.
The grass and thedandelions lie on its sunny banks.
We all associate dandelions with grassy areas, but not with burdock or forests.
How many dandelions can you count as you stand on the school-ground?
Illustration] The first warmth of spring brought thedandelions out of the banks and knolls.
Make up your mind to notice whether dandelions behave the same at all hours of the day and in all kinds of weather.
Daisies and dandelions are plentiful in Ashmead, and so are the yellow buttercups.
If you see some dandelions in the lawn, or groundsel among the flowers or vegetables in the garden beds, you say, "Those weeds must be pulled up.
This makes the Dandelion a troublesome weed; the seeds are easily carried by the wind and, if a patch of dandelions is allowed to go to seed, it will produce fresh plants quite far away.
Along the roadsides, from under the dead weeds and wisps of dried bluestem, the dandelions thrust up their clean, bright faces.
She always went for greens with an air of secrecy, very early, and sneaked along the roadsides stooping close to the ground, as if she might be detected and driven away, or as if the dandelions were wild things and had to be caught sleeping.
This time I kept chewing dandelions and let her run on to the finish, thereby learning the secret of her somewhat remarkable style of delivery.
One morning I kept tryst among the dandelions in vain.
Reclining among the dandelions the while "Calamity" oiled the hinges of her memory with beer, I conned through and between the lines of that record for perhaps a week.
They look like small Yellow Dandelions with fewer yellow rays, and like the Dandelion they are made up of many little yellow tubes grouped together, some of which have yellow straps at the edge, while others have none.
Each of these large blue dandelions is made up of a great many tiny tubes grouped together.
Now the golden dandelionsin endless profusion, spotting the ground everywhere.
Even the plant life of the preceding summer serves as a covering in winter, and a January thaw starts the hardier grasses as surely as it quickens the sheltered upland dandelions into bloom.
Even on cold clay soil dandelions bloomed, and tissue-ice in the wagon ruts had no discouragement for the grass that bordered it.
During those six weeks I lived in a world of dandelionsand delights.
I don't remember any time quite so perfect since the days when I was too little to do lessons and was turned out with sugar on my eleven o'clock bread and butter on to a lawn closely strewn with dandelions and daisies.
But don't be afraid; if I live longest, I will see that your resting place is kept sacred till the dandelions and buttercups blow over you.
For she had received no letter from Walter in two weeks, and the next item on the bill of fare was dandelions--dandelions with some kind of egg--but bother the egg!
When Sarah ate she set aside, with a sigh, the dish of dandelions with its crowning ovarious accompaniment.
And together they had sat and woven a crown of dandelions for her hair.
It is not strange, then, that dandelions spring up almost everywhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dandelions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
