The hollyhock painting of this chapter is from this study.
A low-growing mallow, wherever it chanced to run, shared with its cousin hollyhock the duty of providing cheeses.
He had invested in past years many a shilling in hollyhock seed, but never till now had a plant bloomed in his garden.
They had arrayed Jilly in white with a wreath of forget-me-nots on her blonde curls and a small market basket full of hollyhock blooms to scatter in the pathway of the expected guests.
There is a pretty semidouble Hollyhock with a single row of broad outer petals and a smaller double rosette for the centre; but the single flowers are far more effective.
The Thistle and the Stock together grew, The Hollyhock and Bramble.
I think we may safely affirm that the Hollyhock is the most popular, and most widely known, of all old-fashioned flowers.
Seeds of Pumpkins and Sunflowers were edible, as well as Hollyhock cheeses.
I can never repay to the Hollyhock the debt of gratitude I owe for the happy hours it furnished to me in my childhood.
I am sure in my childhood I would have warmly chosen the Hollyhock as my favorite flower.
It is too close a cousin of the Hollyhock ever to seem to me aught but a happy flower.
Lady Hollyhock must have smiled more than ever when she saw two of them coming.
After a time other members of the family joined these two—some wore gowns of red, some of white, and some of yellow, but none were more charming than the first Lady Hollyhock and her daughter.
Lady Hollyhock was not the only person who was proud to receive him.
The Cucumbers During the summer and the winter following many friends visited with Lady Hollyhock and her family.
I used to think a sight of hollyhockcheese when I was a youngster.
Now when I see a hollyhock there ain't nothin' to it but hollyhock--except the cheese!
This is often, too, the timid expression of a tender feeling, under Puritanic repression, which has not sufficient vent in the sweet-william and hollyhock at the front door.
Indeed, we should describe Charlottetown as a place where the hollyhockin the dooryard is considered an ornament.
The pink flowers are Sutton's Godetia Double Rose, sown in place early in May, the beautiful clear pink Hollyhock Pink Beauty, and the pale pink Double Soapwort.
Now at the back are some plants of the single Hollyhock Hibiscus ficifolius, white and pale yellow, recalling, as we merge into the stronger yellows, the colouring of the region just left.
They sat with Nancy and Aunt Milly on the hollyhock porch after supper excitedly making plans; at least B'lindy and Aunt Milly were excited; Aunt Sabrina had moments of alarm--it had been so very long since they had entertained anyone!
Avoiding the living room and the hollyhock porch, Nancy sought out B'lindy and begged a little lunch.
At five minutes of seven she picked up her knitting and sat resolutely down between her aunts on the hollyhock porch.
Each day, when she did not go to the orchard, she spent in the sitting room or on the hollyhock porch, knitting and helping in little household tasks.
From the swing on the hollyhock porch she had spied Mrs. Eaton coming up the flagged path to the front door.
But when, after supper, the others all went to the Hollyhock porch and Nancy slipped away, the watchful Claire drew a sigh of relief and proceeded to feel riotously happy.
So Buster darted away, calling out as he went that he would meet Jimmy at the hollyhock hedge on the next morning but one.
Now, Jimmy Rabbit had agreed to meet Buster at the hollyhock hedge between the flower and the vegetable garden, on the morning following the great gathering of Farmer Green's friends.
Old Miss Hollyhock has the things I ought to leave for Mrs. Jones!
There's where old Miss Hollyhock lives," and she pointed to a shabby little house, where lived a poor old woman.
Then old Miss Hollyhock can keep the ones Sue and me give her.
You know old Miss Hollyhock is awful poor, and we gave her the things to eat.
The day of the hollyhock fête of the same temple came.
We have found them also infesting the roots of the hollyhock (Alcea rosea).
Sam made a good father of a hollyhock doll family whenever he undertook the relation, and provided liberally for us all in the way of honey, locusts, and grass nuts.
Then I went to bed heartbroken for life, and my sad eyes closed on the little glimpse which my window framed of Old Harpeth, the tallest hill in Paradise Ridge, while my hand still folded in the moist hollyhock seeds.
I exclaimed, and I fairly clung against his shoulder while his strong, rough hand folded over mine as the husk did over the hollyhockseeds I had been holding warm and moist in my palm.
East and west, then," I answered, calmly, though my hand clenched over the hollyhock seeds which I had put in an envelope in the pocket of my corduroy skirt.
Peter will enjoy looking down the rows from the living-room window better than across them," I added, quickly, for fear he would humiliate me by remembering that he had forgotten the hollyhock seeds he had stolen for me.
Over there against the white paling fence stands the stiff hollyhock nodding his satiny head to greet the dainty heliotrope who glances coquettishly up to meet his eye.
Stand this hollyhock phalanx up against a wall like naughty boys, close to the house, or by an old fence.
Hollyhock is another good background plant, because of its height and sentinel-like effect.
I'll keep it for you, and if you do get more I'll put it all together, and give it to Old Miss Hollyhock for you.
Still she was very poor, and she was called "Old Miss Hollyhock," because she had so many of those old-fashioned hollyhockflowers in her garden.
Miss Pat looked at me oddly, and her fingers touched a stalk of hollyhock beside her as her eyes rested on mine.
Miss Pat paused behind us to deliberate upon a new species of hollyhock whose minarets rose level with her kind, gentle eyes.
I think you are right," sighed the hollyhock from the ground, where he had fallen.
But poor little lily's words were not noticed and a tall hollyhock was asked to find old Wind Witch and request her to help them keep the Rain Elves all day.
Hollyhock (Althea rosea) may be raised with certainty by seed from plants growing close together.
Now in the hollyhock the pollen, which is abundant, is matured and nearly all shed before the stigma of the same flower is ready to receive it (16/20.
And about this circle, she knew, were old stone seats, green now like the pedestal of the dial and through the crevices of the paving grew and flourished and blossomed foxglove and dandelion, hollyhock and groundsell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hollyhock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
