In the summer a cross of heliotrope grew at its head, but as yet it had been too cold to put the plants out.
IV After that Sunday call, Gyp sat in the window at Bury Street close to a bowl of heliotrope on the window-sill.
Except for that it was very quiet out there, and he could smell the heliotrope watered not long since.
The morning was fine, the air warm already, sweet with dew, and heliotropenailed to the wall outside her window.
One sniff of a sprig of heliotrope or the cheerful nod of a pink standing in a glass of water on his desk will refresh one so that he will start out like a new man!
I mean, the portulaca and heliotrope and other old-fashioned plants she dug up for me.
She loved the rich mingled scents of wallflower and alyssum and lemon verbena; and, as they walked about, she tucked a velvet plume of dark heliotrope into the belt of her thin white gown.
Her fore-wings were a strong purplish brown in general effect, but on close examination one found the purplish tinge a commingling of every delicate tint of lavender and heliotrope imaginable.
Even by gas light I could see that the yellow of the living moth was a warm canary colour, and the lavender of the mounted specimen closer heliotrope on the living, for there were pinkish tints that had faded from the pinned moth.
The only difficulty was to make the almost threadlike antennae show, and to blend the faint touches of heliotrope on the upper wings with the yellow.
Whether a pale green moth with purple markings is lovelier than a light yellow moth with heliotrope decorations; or a tan and brown one with pink lines, is a difficult thing to determine.
The top of the head was covered with long, silken hairs of heliotrope, then a band of yellow; the upper abdomen was strongly shaded with heliotrope almost to the extreme tip.
Some there are who say that not into the bold-faced sunflower did her metamorphosis take place, but into that purple heliotrope that gives an exquisite offering of fragrance to the sun-god when his warm rays touch it.
These colors being simply medium and light shades of violet, proceed as for the latter color, selecting for heliotrope the bluish brands of methyl violet, and for lilac the red touch mark.
Madame came in gowned in lustreless white, with heliotrope at her belt and in her hair.
Rose had twined a few sprays of heliotrope into her snowy hair and a large amethyst cross hung from her neck by a slender silver chain.
She wore her best gown, of lavender crepe, trimmed with real lace, and a bunch of heliotrope at her belt.
Her little white cottony dog, with a heliotrope ribbon round his neck, bobbed his head over her cuddling arm; a heliotrope parasol shielded her infinitesimally from the amorous sun.
All in fluffy white and heliotrope she was--a blonde rapture floating over the sidewalk toward William's front gate.
Miss Pratt stood among them, in heliotrope and white, Flopit nestling in her arms.
How transparent was the gentle artifice with which she beguiled me out of the room, to search for some purple heliotrope that might soften the tints of her bouquet!
Her very passion for flowers, to me almost a heavenly taste in itself, was so combined with materialism, that the perfume of the heliotrope sickened me.
The wind swept pleasantly over the balcony, in which pots of rose geraniums and heliotrope had been placed.
If you are tired, very well; but I wanted to make a spectacle of myself this time, and the ladies green with envy over my new heliotrope satin.
It is a bed of Lilium auratum, with the dark Heliotropegrowing in between.
The bonnets were of white chip, with feathers of red, for this last dress; broad hats of yellow satin, with yellow plumes, will surmount the heliotrope bridesmaids.
A favorite dress for travelling is heliotrope cashmere, with bonnet to match.
The prettiest toilettes we have seen were of heliotrope gaze over satin; and again clover red, lighted up with white lace.
But if a summer bride must travel in a bonnet, there is no reason that her trousseau should not contain a large Leghorn hat, the straw caught up on the back in long loops, the spaces between filled in with bows of heliotrope ribbon.
The flowers might have been the same—Helen’s favorite heliotrope and carnations.
She wore a dress of light heliotrope satin, elaborately trimmed with point lace, a cluster of pansies at her neck, and no jewelry.
Madame la Marquise de Rochambeau wore an evening dress of royal purple, moire antique silk, trimmed with heliotrope plush and a profusion of rare lace.
She wore a dress of thin black grenadine, relieved by creamy old lace at throat and wrists, and delicate ribbons of heliotrope color.
Her wavy black hair was braided about her small head like a coronet, and a cluster of heliotrope blossoms nestled in its silken darkness.
As to the heliotrope comes fluttering down The peacock-butterfly, who sips and flies, So each glad day gold-winged came to the land And sipped its sip of time and fled away.
Now I know 'tis Heliotrope That the moonlight, bursting ope, Changed to silver on her throat.
He did not look at her, but he watched a pencil of sunshine, piercing the leaves overhead, faintly gilding the bunches of green grapes that had a film of soot on their greenness, and then creeping down to rest on the heliotrope in her lap.
When a day or two later David saw Elizabeth, or rather when she, picking a bunch of heliotrope in her garden, saw him through the open door in the wall, and called to him to come "right over!
He springs up with his muddy feet on the shoulders of her beautiful heliotrope dress.
Mind you use that duck of a service, and wear your heliotrope gown.
