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Example sentences for "lobelia"

Lexicographically close words:
lobbying; lobbyist; lobbyists; lobe; lobed; loben; lobes; lobis; loblolly; lobs
  1. Blue lobelia and scarlet geraniums and some frisky little yellow bloom; I couldn't see exactly what it was.

  2. Canterbury bells, and mourning bride, and pretty blue lobelia for low growing plants and blue lupine for a taller growth.

  3. Very small seeds, such as lobelia and musk, should not be covered by earth, but a sheet of glass over the box is beneficial, as it keeps the moisture from evaporating too quickly.

  4. Young plants, obtained by sowing the seed early in spring, are very useful for edgings; when planted alternately with, or in proximity to, Lobelia a pretty effect is produced.

  5. I plant the blue Lobelia between them, and it contrasts pleasantly with their crimson and orange bells.

  6. It feeds largely on the insects that infest the capsules of Lobelia excelsa, and is often to be seen clinging, like a tit, to the stem in order to secure the insects.

  7. Take half an ounce each of green tea and lobelia herb, and tincture a few days in four ounces of alcohol and water, equal parts.

  8. Take pure olive oil, say one ounce, and half an ounce each of the tincture of lobelia and tincture of cayenne.

  9. The sedative powers of the lobelia inflata then suggested to Dr Elliotson the propriety of giving the patient the chance of that medicine.

  10. The lobelia inflata was allowed by Dr Elliotson to be suspended, and the effect of the magnet tried.

  11. The Floral Valley was no longer as it had been when Philip Lacey had plotted it out so neatly with his pair of compasses and coloured it with his geranium and lobelia and golden feather.

  12. If you desire to twine the threefold chord of color, as Mr. Ruskin calls it, I know of no lovelier foil for the lobelia than the white orchis, which haunts the same marshy spots.

  13. Small doses of lobelia may be taken, but not in sufficient quantities to produce vomiting.

  14. In this case the system should be relaxed with lobelia (not given in doses to produce vomiting), and as soon as the patient is thoroughly under its influence, the manipulations may be resumed.

  15. Few more fortunate events have occurred in the history of English literature than the quite accidental visit of Mr. Bart Kennedy to the Lobelia on that historic night.

  16. What the Encore would like to know:--Whether Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig didn't go particularly big at the Lobelia last week?

  17. Lobelia erinus speciosa does make a wonderfully smooth blue stripe in sufficient quantities, but that would not console any one who knew or had painted Lobelia cardinalis, and fulgens for the banishment of these from the garden.

  18. Perhaps Tobacco and Lobelia are exceptions to this.

  19. The stupefaction produced by the above medicines is not at all prominent in the case of Tobacco and Lobelia inflata.


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