The violet and the primrose are examples of a monophyllous, monosepalous, or gamopetalous calyx.
The pimpernel belongs to the Primrose family, or Primulaceæ.
Let me be sure that the heart of Miss Polly Primrose beats for me alone, and that will satisfy my cravings for knowledge.
The primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
On the way, she came upon Cherry Cotton and Primrose Lear, seated upon a granite stile, their heads together over something Cherry held in her lap.
She tormented my poor Primrose in life and she's robbed her in death.
Primrose flew into a temper that surpassed Loveday's, already failing her through dismay at her own action, even as the thunder, to children, surpasses in terrifying quality the lightning.
Reader of superior rank, if the passions which rage in the bosom of the inferior class of human kind are beneath your sympathy, throw aside this little history, for Rebecca Rymer and Agnes Primrose are its heroines.
Primrose were uninvented and Tony Lumpkin non-existent,--he would still have earned a perpetual place among English humourists.
But the condition of Primrose Place was beyond description.
I counted three cripples as we went up Primrose Place.
Primrose Place was more like a yard than a street; the houses were all irregular and of different ages.
The street we had left was called Rosemary Street, and this was Primrose Place.
I will here give only a single instance,--the well-known one of the primrose and cowslip, or Primula vulgaris and veris.
Clare took a long walk through Regent's Park and past Primrose Hill towards Hampstead, on the slopes of which he discovered some early violets.
Now you are to ken that my gudesire lived on Redgauntlet's grund--they ca' the place Primrose Knowe.
Primrose to believe in the reformation of a villain by fine phrases, and if he fell into such a weakness, his biographer would not, like Goldsmith, be inclined to sanction the error.
The primrose suggests to him some new device in classification, and he would be worried by the suggestion of any spiritual significance as an annoying distraction.
Surely you of the primrose robes can sometimes love?
What's become of that young swell I saw you with on Primrose Hill?
If life was all summer evenings and Primrose Hill," she remarked, "I might stand a chance.
In those plants like the garden primrose or common weedy plantain, which bear all their leaves in a close cluster or rosette at the level of the ground, we see an almost fiendish cleverness in their earlier and later habits of growth.
The "checkered daffodil" and the soft plaintive primroseare bursting into bloom.
In truth, she is "like the snow-drop fair, and like the primrose sweet.
The next day Mrs. Coles was engaged to luncheon with a friend and took Primrose with her.
Would you like to have Primrose come and keep you company?
Primrose made the stay as short as she could, and Mrs. Coles who felt that she had lost her footing and did not know how to regain it, suffered herself to be carried away.
Primrose and then down at the trim, invisible brown riding-habit, which, looped up and fastened out of the way had been perforce retained through the evening.
Primrose sat down, but with a different face, sober and meditative in another way.
Gyda's finger at her lips stayed all but softly uttered words, till Primrose came up to the fire and looked at the sleeper in the cushioned chair.
Prue, you can't lead Duke,' said Primrose laughing.
In a pause which had come, no one knew why, Primrose remarked, 'I wish you would sing something, Duke.
