These people allege that if the hens of brightly plumaged species were as showy as the cocks, they would be conspicuous objects when brooding, and so fall easy victims to birds of prey.
Red and spotted munias live together very amicably in a cage; but as the latter, owing to their less showy plumage, are usually in a minority, they have to be content with outside positions at roosting-time.
More showy birds exist, more striking, more gorgeous, more magnificent creatures.
We are not given to showy uniforms, and crosses and ribbons.
While he worked in his class he heard of these things--usually the next day--and they were amplified and made more showy and interesting by the narrative powers of the participants.
A plant with showy yellow flowers (Stanleya integrifolia) occurred abundantly at intervals for the last two days, and eriogonum inflatum was among the characteristic plants.
The mountains exhibit their usual varied growth of flowers, and at this place I noticed, among others, thermopsis montana, whose bright yellow color makes it a showy plant.
Not only the river bottoms, but the hills were covered with grass; and among the usual varied flora of the mountain region, these were occasionally blue with the showy bloom of a lupinus.
The soil of bare and hot sands supported a varied and exuberant growth of plants, which were much farther advanced than we had previously found them, and whose showy bloom somewhat relieved the appearance of general sterility.
A showy lupinus, of extraordinary beauty, growing four to five feet in height, and covered with spikes in bloom, adorned the banks of the river, and filled the air with a light and grateful perfume.
Showy half-hardy perennials which thrive in moist and shady situations and in almost any soil.
Showy hardy biennials, which may be raised from seed sown in the spring.
A hardy annual, which produces a profusion of showy flowers in July, and is very suitable for the backs of borders.
Showy greenhouse shrubs, some of which have ornamental foliage.
Very showy flowers, well worth cultivating, and easily grown in a rich, light soil.
Early-flowering, showy perennials, all thriving in a moist or boggy situation.
Showy hardy perennials which require plenty of room to develop.
Drainage may be considered as the chief means of success in the cultivation of theseshowy spring flowers.
Hardy annuals that are suitable for the border, as they are very showy when in flower.
Chalcedonica, commonly known as Ragged Robin, is perhaps the most showy variety; but L.
This showy plant, bearing large blue flowers in June, may be increased by division of the roots into as many plants as there are heads, from slips, or from seed sown in the open border in spring.
A showy hardy perennial with tufts of graceful, curving, slender foliage.
He makes no pretence to showy or splendid gifts of pulpit oratory, but is known as an energetic and industrious ecclesiastic, careful for the spiritual welfare of his diocese and clergy.
There was nothing showy or flashy about him; nothing theatrical or unreal.
Combined with this should be the Clematis Coccinea (Scarlet Clematis), whose showy bell-shape, brilliant scarlet flowers are produced in great profusion.
They should not be added just for appearance sake, any more than one should wear a showy gown to attract attention.
Mix with them the Oriental Poppies, which are the most showy plants possible for decorative effects.
I had at last reached a busy thoroughfare; gas was burning, and the shops looked showy and attractive.
But when you had such a showy thing, you ought to have had gumption enough to know how to take care of it.
As he happened to select a volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica, I was under the necessity of refusing; but offered in its stead a less valuable, though more showy book, which he accepted with much gratitude.
His commerce, showy as it was, turned out to be transitory and useless.
Being unaware of the boy's capacity, many were taken in by the more showy gifts of the handsome Adonijah, whose age might seem to promise greater stability to the kingdom.
Many consider those as the best men who possess the most enlarged, and especially the most showy talents; and despise those of a different description, as though their gifts and graces must be equal.
It is five or six feet high with slender branches, glossy foliage, and abundance of blue flowers in close, showy panicles.
The mostshowy and interesting of them are mostly in the upper part of the canyon, above the point of entrance of Cathedral Creek and Hoffman Creek.
Several species of humming-birds are always to be seen, darting and buzzing among the showy flowers.
The staminate flowers are still more showy on account of their great abundance, often giving a reddish-yellow tinge to the whole mass of foliage and filling the air with pollen.
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers.
A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
There are many of the painted vases with which the world has become so well acquainted, and which, as being the more showy objects, will on his first entrance attract the eye of the visitor.
A showy hat with many-colored flowers crowned its head, and as the carriage passed it waved a lace handkerchief, thus setting her many bangles tinkling.
Arabella looked very demure as a little Puritan, and really, Patricia's showy Spanish costume was becoming.
With the barnyard fowl the male has the long spurs and the showy comb and wattles.
In the animal kingdom below man, save in a few instances, it is the male that wears the showy decorations.
Which is the least showy part of the establishment?
The presence chamber was about forty feet square, showyand handsome: round the walls were placed sofas, which, from being covered with scarlet, reminded me of the woolsacks in the House of Lords.
The reception he met with was flattering; he was complimented warmly by some of the speakers on his own side; but it must be confessed that his debut was more showy than promising.
Morton, War Governor of Illinois, powerful and partisan; Roscoe Conkling, of New York, showy and arrogant.
The showy world in which her interest lay completely absorbed her.
There gathered, before the matinee and afterwards, not only all the pretty women who love a showy parade, but the men who love to gaze upon and admire them.
The glow of a more showy life was not lost upon her.
Carrie noted the elegantly carpeted and decorated hall, the marbled lobby, and showy waiting-room.
She could find heart only to look at the pictures which were showy and then walk out.
In all her stay in the city, Carrie had never heard of this showy parade; had never even been on Broadway when it was taking place.
Another was on the Bowery, which he knew contained many showy resorts.
They had come out of the lobby and made their way through the showy crush about the entrance way.
She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.
A woman in a long cloak and a showy bonnet stood on the step, protecting herself with an umbrella from the bitter sleet which the wind was now driving through the darkness.
Her sudden and swift return to the foot of the stairs was followed by the descent of the woman in the showy bonnet.
