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Example sentences for "foxgloves"

Lexicographically close words:
fowt; fox; foxed; foxes; foxglove; foxhole; foxholes; foxhound; foxhounds; foxhunter
  1. This raceme is a weak but exact repetition of the first, bearing symmetrical foxgloves all [484] along and terminating in a peloric structure.

  2. The foxgloves as a rule have naked flower-stalks, without the two little opposite leafy organs seen in so many other instances.

  3. Fuchsias were hung at the ears for eardrops, green leaves were pinned with leaf stems into little caps and bonnets and aprons, Foxgloves made dainty children's gloves.

  4. How Canterbury Bells and Foxgloves love to grow side by side!

  5. We used to build little columns of these Foxgloves by thrusting one within another, alternating purple and white; and we wore them for gloves, and placed them as foolscaps on the heads of tiny dolls.

  6. Both Foxgloves and Canterbury Bells sow themselves profusely if stalk is left to perfect its seeds.

  7. Sow Foxgloves in seed bed about last of April, and, late in September, transplant to their permanent place.

  8. Indeed, the June morning was beautiful, and the foxgloves ringing the white dial post above the fresh green of our lawn had an indescribable air of delicate stateliness in the sun.

  9. But the sick child merely held the spray of foxgloves nearer her face and inquired, "What is that?

  10. Sing me one more villanelle Through the ferns and foxgloves of the fairy dell.

  11. XIV GOOD-BYE SING me one more villanelle, Light as elfin foot that brushes Through the ferns and foxgloves of the fairy dell.

  12. Sing it to the curfew knell, Where the streamlet plays with rushes Through the ferns and foxgloves of the fairy dell.

  13. Rare as snowy heather bell, Sweet as melody of thrushes Through the ferns and foxgloves of the fairy dell.

  14. She planted them comfortably and cosily in a bed along with white foxgloves and pink pentstemons, all the members of this happy family looking about the same size.

  15. But where were the foxgloves and pentstemons?

  16. The foxgloves are also a brave sight (though I do not include in this category those that are buried under the tree-lupins!

  17. Wait till the heather's out again, and the foxgloves are nodding along the low ridges over the Teign, and the whortle bells be turned to purple berries once more.

  18. The girls, meanwhile, had been planting the seeds of Canterbury bells and foxgloves in flats.

  19. Prob'bly down there, where the foxgloves and the blackberries have taken root.

  20. Patches of bright crimson here and there where the foxgloves still bloom; patches of purple and yellow where heather and furze are growing.

  21. Along this hedge, at present, wallflowers, and scarlet and white and pink-belled foxgloves are blooming.

  22. Then I showed her nests, and gave her small blue eggs to take home, and pulled great foxgloves for her, and made coronets of fern.

  23. The grass in the meadow was browned and crackling; all the foxgloves hung their bells with weariness; and the waters were shrunken in their beds.

  24. Foxgloves and Canterbury Bells bloom in June and July for more than a month, and give a touch of glory to any garden.

  25. In the same way, numerous varieties of Delphiniums, Iris, Peonies, Columbines, Canterbury Bells and Foxgloves have been produced.

  26. Sow the seeds of Foxgloves and Canterbury Bells in the shady part of the seed-bed in early April.

  27. With trowel in hand and joy in my heart, I set out hundreds of little Box plants, transplanted Columbines, Foxgloves and Canterbury Bells.

  28. Foxgloves and Sweet Williams, if allowed to go to seed, will sow themselves and increase rapidly.

  29. The bees were in and out of these foxgloves yesterday,' she said, as she stooped over the bed.

  30. The foxgloves are the sentinels That guard the fairies' sleep, When twilight comes, and to their beds The wee elves softly creep.

  31. O blamer of me for the love of him who denieth his grace, Which be the delightsome of things, but those which the people deny?

  32. And he said, "Didst thou not bid me bring thee wood?

  33. Man had never set foot there; save for the old fisherman who rested on his oars to gaze at the primroses, sea-pinks, and foxgloves that in their season decked this hanging garden, no human eye had seen its beauty.

  34. Even now the solitary furze-bush amongst the naked rods of the foxgloves was gay with blossom, for the slope fronted south and caught the sun.

  35. He had intended white foxgloves to rise, always, against the copse; but then he had not known how lovely pink foxgloves could be.

  36. Tears now were in his eyes as he brought them back to Mrs. Pomfrey's, and seated upon the sofa, the pink foxgloves in the Chinese bowl beside her, she looked back at him very gravely.

  37. This evening he put the foxgloves in the drawing-room, a tall jar on the bureau, a taller jar on the piano, and a group in the vast white Chinese bowl, wedged cunningly into place with stones among the stems.

  38. I'll put it off till to-morrow, if that will secure you, only the foxgloves may not be quite so lovely by then.

  39. Would you like to see the pink foxgloves growing?

  40. This year the change in the foxgloves had come as a complete surprise; he was still a novice at gardening.

  41. It seemed to him, as they passed them, that the foxgloves were tall angels set about Paradise and welcoming him there.

  42. The foxgloves and the gorse I planted on my way.

  43. It was the colour of a great passion, and against that colour pink foxgloves bowed dramatically upon the fringe of space.

  44. Tall white gladiolas shot up above it, and spires of foxgloves and rockets, while all about them and among the rose-trees, climbed the morning glory and the briony vine.

  45. He was pulling some of her cherished foxgloves through the picket fence, and eagerly devouring their flowery stalks.

  46. The goat lifted his head, and gazed at his enemy with mild interest; he was pasturing now by the roadside, and the foxgloves had proved bitter in his mouth.

  47. Jenny fell backwards into the ferns and foxgloves and withered bluebells.

  48. The ferns grew taller every day, and foxgloves waved right down to the water's edge.

  49. Foxgloves are so beautiful that you will want to grow them even if you have a sunny, sheltered, well-dug, and well-dressed garden where anything will succeed.

  50. The seed of Foxgloves should be sown in June, either in boxes or in the open ground.

  51. At the side of each plot farthest from the path the children grow white and pink Foxgloves from seed, and the dwarf Sunflower Stella.

  52. White Foxgloves should be planted at the edge and a little way back, Daffodils for the time when the leaves are not yet there, and Lily of the Valley, whose charming bloom and brilliant foliage come with the young leaves of May.

  53. To right and left white Foxgloves spire up among the Bracken.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foxgloves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.