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Example sentences for "lupine"

Lexicographically close words:
luo; luoghi; luogo; lupa; lupi; lupines; lupins; lurch; lurched; lurcher
  1. She was on her way, I suppose, to some wild garden, probably for lupine and starchy saxifrage leaves and rootstocks.

  2. We should boil lupine leaves, clover, starchy petioles, and saxifrage rootstocks like the Indians.

  3. Columbine and larkspur grow on the dryer edges of the meadows, with a tall handsome lupine standing waist-deep in long grasses and sedges.

  4. A patch of these little flowers scattered over a sandy slope in Yosemite, sometimes growing with a tiny blue and white Lupine that likes the same sort of place, is an exceedingly pretty sight.

  5. Chapter XV The Bad Man The eyes of Beaudry, held in dreadful fascination, clung to the lupine face behind the revolver.

  6. It was impossible to look on the ugly, lupine face of the man, marked by the ravages of forty years of vice and unbridled passion, without knowing that he was ready for trouble now.

  7. The bouquet of sun-warmed strawberries and the perfume of flowering lupine were wafted across the dunes in intermittent gusts of fragrance.

  8. They came out on the west side of Kon Klayu in a field of blossoming lupine that sloped gently downward to the sands, and beyond, the sea dashed in foam-shot emerald against a ragged reef.

  9. The Romans cultivated the Lupine (Lupinus) as an article of food, and Pliny declared that nothing could be more wholesome than white Lupines eaten dry, and that this diet imparted a fresh colour and cheerful countenance.

  10. Worse than the lupine pest Upon whose hoary crest Old monarchs laid a price!

  11. On the far side the plateau stretched, lilac with the lupine flowers, the broken rear line of the herd receding across it.

  12. A loosened strand of her hair lay among the lupine roots, one of her hands rested, brown and upcurled, on a tiny weed its weight had broken.

  13. Her fire kindled, the camp in shape, she lay down by the little blaze with her head under a lupine plant.

  14. So soundless was the approach that Susan heard nothing till a lupine stalk snapped under the horse's hoof.

  15. He was grateful if she asked him to hunt for medicine in the small, wooden chest, or to spread the blankets to air on the tops of the lupine bushes.

  16. The showy wild lupine comes out with long racemes of purple, pink, blue, and white blossoms, covering sandy fields with a flush of color.

  17. In the month of June these flats are brilliant with the splendid blossoms of the enchroma, or painted cup, the azure lupine and snowy trillium roses scent the evening air, and grow as if planted by the hand of taste.

  18. The lupine is another of those interesting plants which go to sleep at night.

  19. The Lupine is beautiful in the garden border as it is in the landscape, whether the blossom be blue, yellow, or white.

  20. It was June 5, and I read:-- "The Lupine is now in its glory.

  21. He wondered if primitive man, or if even wild animals, did not always walk with that vague consciousness of continual menace, where lupine viciousness seemed eternally at war with vulpine wariness.

  22. It was a shadowed and lupine eye which Durkin cautiously opened as he felt more than heard MacNutt's quick footsteps on the carpeted floor.

  23. I do not think, however, that the authorities are in fact open to any serious blame up to the present time.

  24. Surely, these swallows and ferns and lupine flowers are more ancient than the Acropolis.

  25. The sun pays tribute to them in gold; the rain, in mosses and ferns; the Spring, in lupine flowers.

  26. And when the myth-forming process had got thus far, it would not stop short of assigning to the unfortunate wretch a tangible lupine body; for all ancient mythology teemed with precedents for such a transformation.

  27. Lupine is very common through the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains.

  28. The wonderful greenness of the grass, the glowing masses of yellow, and the deep gentian blue of the lupine would rank with the coloring of McWhirter's "Tyrol in Springtime.

  29. They will show mainly as Iris and Lupine borders, and are intended to display the beauty of these two grand plants of early summer.

  30. Lupine Somerset is a desirable hybrid, not quite a true Tree Lupine, though it has a half-woody growth.

  31. In the month of July a gorgeous assemblage of orange lilies (Lilium Philadelphicum) take the place of the lupine and trilliums: these splendid lilies vary from orange to the brightest scarlet.

  32. The Lupine was originally named from lupus, a wolf, because of its voracious nature.

  33. Pliny said, "No kind of fodder is more wholesome and light of digestion than the white Lupine when eaten dry.

  34. It was said the Lupine was cursed by the Virgin Mary, because when she fled with the child Christ from the assassins of Herod, plants of this species by the noise they made attracted the attention of the soldiers.

  35. The day before we had passed by hundreds of clumps of a beautiful blue lupine with finely cut foliage and profusion of color that rivaled any flower of its shade I have seen in cultivation.

  36. The large yellow lupine is a common plant upon our wind-swept mesas, growing in sandy soil.

  37. The false lupine very closely resembles the true lupines, but may be distinguished from them by the stamens, which are all distinct, instead of being united into a sheath.

  38. In fact, they are so abundant between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean that that territory is known among botanists as the "Lupine Region.

  39. While the blue lupine blossomed she kept the mound covered with the fragrant flowers.

  40. The Chief decided to drive out to Desert View the afternoon following our Canyon experience, and he said I could go if I liked; he said he couldn't promise any excitement, but the lupine was beautiful in Long Jim Canyon, and I might enjoy it.


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