It is asserted that he has walked down Pall Mall in the afternoon dressed in doublet and breeches, with a picturesque biretta on his head, and a sunflower in his hand, the quasi-heraldic symbol of the AEsthetes.
But it is a promenade with a sunflower in the hand also inspired by a craving for the beautiful.
They might," answered Zagloba; "but since sunflower oil is heavier, it would be necessary to drink stronger wine than that which we are drinking at present.
I too hammer into cracks and holes such things as sunflower seeds, corn and nuts for winter use.
A bunch of quails were picking up the seeds which the wind shook from the sunflowerpods above them, while a few brown prairie chickens lay sunning themselves upon the sand.
He rushed to the garden, and came back with a huge sunflower which he tossed to her, calling: "Author!
With a low bow he indicated the sunflowerwhich she carried.
Hardy annual== The utility of the Sunflower has been alluded to in a former page.
The Sunflower can also be employed in one or more rows to make a boundary or to hide an unsightly fence, and some growers use it as a screen for flowers which will not bear full sunshine.
They began their domestic life in the Sunflower state, but in 1867 crossed the plains, making the journey with horse team and wagon to Oregon.
Mr. Beall regards the name as applying rather to the tract of land extending a mile or two above Walla Walla where the sunflower is very frequent than to the creek itself.
The needle follows the drawing of the pole-star; the sunflower turns to the sun.
Men will yield their whole souls to the warmth and light that stream from the Cross, as the sunflower turns itself to the sun.
It inclines to the more conspicuous and so-called heroic virtues; it prefers a great, flaring, yellow sunflower to the violet hiding among the grass, and making its presence known only by fragrance.
This wildsunflower of the plains is believed to be the original parent of the large sunflower of our gardens.
The stately form of the sunflower is a common sight in the south, where whole fields are often covered with the plants.
The floor was littered with sunflower seeds and the paper wrappings of cheap sweets.
Then the Sunflower said it was like a lamb trying to think out how it had come to eat a wolf, but had to give it up.
But the Sunflower said: "I will ask you this: Would the Queen sign a treaty disinheriting her son?
There was a chorus of approval, and the Sunflower said: "That is the very thing—it settles every difficulty.
Sachs showed that a sunflower head is profoundly altered by pricking the centre of the torus, and Molliard got double flowers by mechanical irritation.
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look that she turned when he rose.
Some there are who say that not into the bold-faced sunflower did her metamorphosis take place, but into that purple heliotrope that gives an exquisite offering of fragrance to the sun-god when his warm rays touch it.
Note the Song Sparrow on a Sunflowerhead and a Chickadee weighing himself.
Rye, wheat, sunflower seeds, and cracked corn, mixed together in equal parts and accompanied by a liberal sprinkling of ground suet and beef scrap, make an excellent food for birds at this season.
What is the food value of sunflower seed as a ration for fowls, mostly laying hens?
Sunflower seed is rich in oil, having the same proportion as flaxseed; otherwise it rates in value the same as grain.
Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.
They thrust upon him half of their tidbits and sunflower seeds,--what masses of sunflower seeds and handbill cigarettes were consumed that day, not to mention squash seeds, by the more opulent!
Then he was surprised to see, growing out of the tank close beside him a stately golden flower; and as he watched it, the sunflower gently bent its head and leaned down toward him.
When the Ranee heard this, she ordered her servants to go and dig the sunflower up, and to take it far into the jungle and burn it.
I pictured kine that kissed their own reflections on the impulsive Rhone, A little maid with sunflower hair, a nest we found .
In such a gust my tender age availed not with the preaching sage, For I was born of fighting men; and one of them took me for page, Though I was loth to go, and prayed for mercy and a little maid Whose hair was shining sunflower brown.
He rose with a gasp, and was first conscious of a strange smell of dirt and tallow and something that he did not know, but was afterwards to recognise as the scent of sunflower seed.
There was a great consumption of sunflower seeds, and the narrow passage down the middle of the room was littered with fragments.
He liked very much my cigarettes, and I gave him these on condition that he did not spit sunflower seeds over my floor.
The floor was covered with sunflower seeds, and there was a strong smell of soldiers' boots and bad cigarettes and urine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sunflower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
