| 单词 | buttercup |
| 例句 | They looked just like buttercups now she was close, only bigger, with the same bright shine on their petals. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Her day dress is buttercup yellow and perfectly complements her new skin color—a dusky light brown, like warmed milk with cinnamon and nutmeg stirred into it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The/ stood on cool, green grass, sprinkled with daisies and buttercups. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z There was hawthorn both pink and white, and primroses and buttercups carpeted the fields with yellow. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Stargirl seemed to float down the promenade in her buttercup gown. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Like the buttercups beside them, their three fox faces lifted to the morning sun. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She lived in the best field in the whole district—a large one full of buttercups the size of saucers and dandelions rather larger than brooms. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z "Bring me a day dress instead. The lavender one. No, the buttercup yellow with the ruffled sleeves." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A group of small children were to be presented in a play about buttercups and daisies and bunny rabbits. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They were everywhere—buttercups, daisies, wild roses, violets. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meadows there were thousands of buttercups. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The field was all primrose-colour and gold with the buttercups and dandelions standing up in it like soldiers. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The roadway was bordered with daisies and buttercups, pale and thin, of course, compared to the brilliant masses of color in Barbados, but pretty all the same. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Before them lay an open field of long, lush grass dotted with buttercup and sorrel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I stumbled to the stream, placed her in a nest of buttercups, and dropped beside her. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, for the third time a little bunch of flowers, buttercups and wild geraniums, lay on the doorstep. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Here there was a choke that couldn’t be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his ‘confounded throat’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Sean took off his fly, tied on a plain hook, picked a buttercup and stuck it on the hook, cast, and caught a fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I ended up getting a yellow dress with a full skirt that flew out like a buttercup when I twirled around. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody stopped picking buttercups and stared across the river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Her strapless gown is a bright, rich yellow, as if pressed from buttercups. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z His silky mane curled about his neck in waves the colour of buttercups. Animal passions: David Sedaris's modern fables 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z The colors were mostly black and white, but included spring green and the buttercup yellow that also covered the floor. Fashion Review: A Game of Checkers 2012-10-04T07:21:21Z “I grieve it,” the master of a private school said solemnly, of the demise of “buttercup.” Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops "Acorn" for "Broadband" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Art instillations pop up here like the buttercups in the surrounding hills. Melania Trump’s Ljubljana, Then and Now 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z A rollicking squirrel looses his grip on the buttercups above and tumbles downto bounce against the bulbs. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z Hunt's exquisite eye for detail means songs come peppered with wonderful imagery: pebbledash walls, "chewing-gum smiles" and chains of buttercups, occasionally darkening to find blood on a pillowcase. Butcher Boy: Helping Hands ? review 2011-08-25T21:40:00Z “All elements in this rainbow program,” Crowther wrote, “are carefully contrived and guaranteed to lift the dolors of winter and put you in a buttercup mood.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Yannick’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z By chance, I discover her own secret garden, a poetic flowerscape of tole buttercups, cornflowers, sweet peas, a datura and a thistle that is arranged on a small bare wall in her home. | Carmen Almon, The Naturalist 2013-08-21T19:11:13Z Some of the wildflowers were familiar — clover, buttercups, daisies, wild carrot. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s still summer right now — but many of us could probably use something to put us in a “buttercup mood,” so in that sense, the timing of this broadcast is quite good. What’s on TV This Week: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Yannick’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Landesman left white for the trim and ordered claret for the walls and buttercup for the ceilings. Rocco Landesman, N.E.A. Chief, Storms Washington 2010-04-07T20:20:00Z As he warns readers midway through the book, “Buckle up, buttercup, because I can go from comedy to tragedy in three seconds flat.” Jonathan Van Ness on being HIV positive: 'It gave me a reason to really fight' 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The Dothraki were established in the first episode as the most fearsome warriors on Earth; we saw them plow through the Lannister army as if it were a field of buttercups. Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z A few buttercups, lodged on the mossy side of a fallen branch, shine like bright yellow stars. Homage to the Scottish Highlands: walking in the Cairngorms 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Nearby stands Mary McCarthy’s old digs, a house she painted buttercup yellow to rankle this primly whitewashed town’s citizenry. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “You roughed me up and made me cry/now you wanna borrow money,” she rasps “Good luck finding your buttercup.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z “Buck up, buttercup,” she couldn’t keep herself from saying. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Two of the most endearing of these are look-alikes, both with buttercup flowers in white or, in some varieties, pink. These native woodland plants deserve a spot in any garden 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Tiny blazing-yellow Colombian buttercup orchids jostle with frilly, purply-red Pacific Sun Spots, which compete with hybrid Phalaenopsis, their petals decorated with pink stripes as fine as a hair. ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z You noticed the small honeycomb pattern of jackets, the wasp-waist organza in buttercup and poppy, the molded harnesses in dark amber. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton’s Sweet Talk at the Alexander McQueen Show 2012-10-03T22:55:12Z One of the most conspicuous heralds is a bonny buttercup named the winter aconite. Perspective | As summer’s heat wanes, it’s time to plan (and plant) for late-winter beauty 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Fashion favorites Christopher Kane and Vivienne Westwood also drew inspiration from nature, playing with appliquéd motifs of buttercups, carnations and orchids, huge floral corsages and printed fabrics featuring traditional floral paintings. London designers step into spring with floral fashions 2013-09-17T13:20:43Z What I probably needed all along was a thick coat of “chin-up, buttercup” nail polish asphyxiation. Is it cancer?: My paranoid health scares 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z Because this recipe calls for a quantity of puree, the smaller and adorably named buttercup squash is too petite to fuss with for this pie. Take that squash and slab it — into a savory pie 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The garden has examples of a buttercup that grows wild only on Svalbard and is one of the rarest plants in Europe. 10 great botanical gardens around the world: readers’ tips 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Why should anyone want to murder a harmless minor poet who writes of buttercups and daisies and the delights of rural life? Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z She decided to call the initiative “For Love and Buttercup,” since buttercup flowers have a childlike charm for her and also symbolize happiness. A teen found a way to ease her anxiety and despair: Give away thousands of books to sick children 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z On a rainy Saturday, I stopped into an afternoon-to-evening performance, settling into a buttercup sofa with a mug of herbal tea. A 9-Hour Play? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Fall Asleep to ‘One Night.’ 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Kitty's was a nervous disposition, but her house was an oasis of calm, full of buttercups in old glass jars, William Morris wallpaper, glossy wood, shells, tapestries and mirrors. Kitty Godley obituary 2011-01-19T18:04:09Z Alongside Bear and Taylor, they recorded the second Grizzly Bear album, Yellow House, in Droste's mother's home in Cape Cod, and named the album after its buttercup paintwork. Grizzly Bear: freed from captivity 2010-05-27T21:01:00Z There was a little bit of black, a whole lot of white, bits of red, a ton of blush tones, a dollop of buttercup and a few outlier shades of gray, silver and caramel. Perspective | On the Oscars red carpet, the fashion statements were personal, not political 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Which she must’ve known, because within months she was teasing me back, calling me “straight fairy,” “fop,” and “buttercup”—saucy! “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Geere’s picture, taken a week before the finale aired, showed a buttercup sunburst cradling a fuchsia heart. On ‘You’re the Worst,’ Chris Geere Got His Ever After. Now What? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z I must have repeated, “Overdosed,” because my husband slams the heel of one hand hard against the wall Cole helped him paint buttercup yellow. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z They sell little jars of their house-made mayonnaise from a refrigerated case by the counter, by the way; it's thick and buttercup yellow from the high concentration of whipped egg yolk. I learned how to build a better sandwich at my local bánh mì counter 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z One year later, the dress, this time in pale buttercup, made its spring runway debut. T Magazine: Red State 2012-10-10T15:00:55Z Drawn from the designer and illustrator’s charming children’s pop-up book, La Promenade de la Petite Fille, the creations include side tables featuring painterly buttercups, violets, and roses. Nathalie Lété Debuts Floral Tables at Paris’s Bazartherapy 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Before long it bloomed with poppies, buttercups and Queen Anne's lace. Biodiversity Flourishes in Historic Lawn Turned Wildflower Meadow 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z On a late morning in May, the pastures are also dotted with buttercups and clusters of native sunflowers. 'Conservation grazing' uses cattle to preserve species and landscapes 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z “The sagebrush violets there are gorgeous, along with the sagebrush buttercups,” he said. Outdoor experts suggest 11 shoulder season hikes around Washington 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z For example, at Klickitat Trail, you’ll see mock orange, blue aster, gentian, buttercups and desert parsley starting in late April into early June. Where to find the best wildflower blooms across Washington | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Before him, riverbank lupine, western buttercups and dozens of other native plants were providing habitat and food for various bees, butterflies, grasshoppers, songbirds and even an owl. Wild bees, threatened by warming and wildfires, get help from WA researchers 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The flowers are also known as Persian buttercups. Hey, bloomer: Carlsbad's Instagram-ready flower fields open March 1 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The rest of the lawn is a mix of daisies, buttercups, clover, grass and another flower I don’t know the name of. How to remove dandelions without harming bees, prune properly and more garden questions 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z One client favored a Clematis collection — a flower in the buttercup family with 300 varieties. How the pandemic has us growing closer to the outdoors 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z One user joked that he was "in stitches" when Matt inaccurately guessed, "The next buttercup" instead of the real answer, "The next generation." 'Wheel of Fortune' contestant's completely wrong answer leaves viewers stunned: 'I'm in stitches' 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Follow the gravel trail, lined with blackberries and buttercups, until it dead ends at the dead end of Mary Avenue Northwest. This hidden beach links Golden Gardens and Carkeek Park, only emerges at low tide and makes for a special, quiet walk 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Hillary Clinton was the first, captured in side-profile, by Ginny Stanford, looking composed and regal, like the head of a coin, flanked by gold leaf panels, and wearing a hopeful shade of buttercup yellow. From Martha Washington to Melania Trump: 250 years of first lady portraiture 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z In saucer-shaped flowers with exposed pollen, like buttercups, UV-absorbing pigment increased when ozone levels went down and decreased in locations where ozone went up. Flowers are changing their colors to adapt to climate change 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z But as she beckoned me over to her open, passenger-side window she first offered an admonition in a honeyed, Carolina accent: “Mask up, buttercup.” North Carolina: An empty campus says a lot about the state of the race. 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Many others were in disbelief, writing, "Did this man on wheel of fortune say the best buttercup?" 'Wheel of Fortune' contestant's completely wrong answer leaves viewers stunned: 'I'm in stitches' 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z But others such as buttercups fail to bounce back after damage. Some plants recover quickly after crushing blows 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Try cutting every three or four weeks and let dandelions, daisies and violets bloom in spring, followed by buttercups, clovers and selfheal in summer. 50 simple ways to make your life greener 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z As well as trampling native flora, tahr also snack on threatened alpine vegetation such as the the Mount Cook buttercup, the scree buttercup and ranunculus acraeus. Alpine ecosystems at risk as tahr population booms in New Zealand 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “The colors follow the path of the sun,” Dalle Nogare says, starting with a stripe of pale blue that spans the bedrooms, followed by an expanse of buttercup, Kelly green and crimson. Who Was Carlo Scarpa? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z "The best buttercup? #wheeloffortune @patsajak how did you not crack up laughing or make one of your hilarious faces," one user asked. 'Wheel of Fortune' contestant's completely wrong answer leaves viewers stunned: 'I'm in stitches' 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Visitors between May and July should be able to see flowers including harebells, buttercups, poppies and cornflowers. Meadow set to change famous Cambridge view 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The Queen is often applauded by royalists for evolving the monarchy – well, welcome to evolution, buttercup. No wonder Harry and Meghan are quitting. The rightwing press – and their families – left them no choice 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z When I drove there, in May, there were still patches of snow in the shade, but the banks of Sagehen Creek were dotted with the first buttercups of spring. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The kitchen, all buttercup yellow walls and gleaming stainless, is wide open to view. Second-act success: Chef Scott Carsberg has a winner in his newest Seattle restaurant, Bisato 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Another person reminded folks at home that "Not ONE letter in that word matched 'buttercup'!" 'Wheel of Fortune' contestant's completely wrong answer leaves viewers stunned: 'I'm in stitches' 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Hundreds of poppies, primroses, meadow buttercups and 100 saplings at Manor Farm Orchard in Kingsway, Gloucester, were mown down. Wildflowers cut down 'by mistake' 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department on Tuesday announced the colorful displays range from bluebonnets to buttercups to Indian blanket. Recent rain means lush, bright wildflowers across Texas 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z While other MREs contained items such as M&Ms; or Reese’s buttercups, her package included sweet bread and peanut butter and jelly, which was promptly folded into a makeshift sandwich. Kodiak students step back in time at Fort Abercrombie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z While other MREs contained items such as M&Ms or Reese’s buttercups, her package included sweet bread and peanut butter and jelly, which was promptly folded into a makeshift sandwich. Kodiak students step back in time at Fort Abercrombie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Springy moss, purple and yellow saxifrage, and a type of buttercup stay within centimetres of the ground. Naked geology, dazzling light… my journey into the Arctic 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z At 30, she is little changed: tall with a small, doll-like face, startling blue eyes and a tiny buttercup mouth. Lily Cole: why I made a film about 'violent, awful' Heathcliff 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Well, buckle up buttercups, because this is 2018 and we are way past the point of messing around with nonsense. Why Judge Rosemarie Aquilina is my style – and everything – icon 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z An almost reactionary attitude from the top and in the unions enables it; women elsewhere endure it, so men here have to suck it up, buttercup. We Asked Women in Blue-Collar Workplaces About Harassment. Here Are Their Stories. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Instead of the usual medicines, a friend suggested aconite, a homeopathic remedy derived from a plant in the buttercup family. UC Irvine aims to transform public health with record-breaking $200-million donation 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z And he knew Sweet had often braided daisies and buttercups into Cricket’s mane and tail, so he added those to the sketch. Designing the dream: 2 artists make carousel menagerie alive 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Winking eyes of yellow buttercups line a nicely constructed boardwalk crossing a marsh. A Hike and a Happy Hour: Saunter on Lake Whatcom, sip a Melvin beer 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Blankets of red poppies and yellow buttercups complete a tableau reminiscent of southern Italy. Death by stoning: Battered Syrian city offers a window into life under the thumb of ISIS militants 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Plants associated with the extinct beetle include southern beech, buttercup, moss mats, and cushion plants, all typical for a tundra ecosystem. Rare Antarctic beetle find delights - BBC News 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Faust is a retired pastor who grows buttercup squash for the Great Plains Food Bank, which distributes food throughout the state. North Dakota university harvesting squash for the hungry 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z And when we prefer gazing at the pixels on our phones to the glories of the world around us — the nodding buttercups, the chirruping songbirds — we’re one step closer to “The Matrix.” Obsessed with your screen? Turns out, that’s not a new thing. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z The researchers infer that as the lake shrank, grasses and sedges started growing around it, followed by sagebrush, buttercups, birch and willow. How Did People Migrate to the Americas? Bison DNA Helps Chart the Way 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The region later became lusher, with sagebrush, buttercups and even roses, followed by willow and poplar trees. Plant and animal DNA suggests first Americans took the coastal route 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z That is why, starting next year, sales of fig buttercup will be illegal in Maryland, along with sales of shining cranesbill and yellow flag iris. An enemy in our midst: Maryland tries to fight invasive plant species 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z A rare buttercup is being reintroduced in South Gloucestershire. Rare buttercup reintroduced in Gloucestershire - BBC News 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z It was like a piece of sailcloth among the bobbing buttercups. Nearly forgotten, a sailor’s heroics are now forever etched in stone 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z An invasive plant, lesser celandine—commonly called fig buttercup—grows in Rock Creek Park. These Animals Live in the Most Powerful City in the World 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z On either side of the dirt path we walked on toward the pond were fields of yarrow, bright as buttercups and, above them, swooping flocks of blackbirds, smudges of ominous black upsetting the blue. A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It is as if we are children, holding buttercups under our chins. Ellsworth Kelly: ‘I want to live another 15 years’ 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z At Badgeworth, the tiny nature reserve boasts a small crop of the plant but in South Gloucestershire the buttercup is only spotted once every five years. Rare buttercup reintroduced in Gloucestershire - BBC News 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Dairy producers often adorn their packaging with pictures of docile cows grazing amid buttercups, watched over by ruddy old farmers. A nation of tall cheese-eaters - BBC News 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Webb took care of all the creative directing: typefaces, the buttercup yellow on gray background for all printed materials, the coasters. With Drybar, a Curly-Haired Girl Wages a Global War on Frizz 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Once, his younger brother Harold was lagging behind and called out to the others that his boots were covered in gold from where they had been walking through the buttercups. WW1 poet Owen's home to be listed 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Feces and bacteria in the intestines revealed the ancient matriarch ate grassland plants such as buttercups and dandelions. Fresh Mammoth Carcass From Siberia Holds Many Secrets 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Interior and exterior walls, cushions, bedspreads, dinnerware and riots of flowers are Carmen Miranda shades of pink, orange and the namesake blossom’s buttercup yellow. A Secret, Romantic Resort With Some Of Mexico's Best Beaches: Las Alamandas 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Aconitum, part of the buttercup family, goes by various nicknames depending on the exact species - Monkshood, Wolfsbane, the Queen of Poisons, or Devil's Helmet. How dangerous is Devil's Helmet? 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Varieties include acorn, buttercup, butternut and spaghetti squash. 5 Frugal and Fresh Ingredients for Fall 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z A girl and a woman walked in a buttercup plantation near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, April 30. Flower Power 2013-05-09T15:58:01Z Plantwatch: Mushrooms and buttercups out at the same time Confidence intervals take some of the luck out of exam results Why does the Higgs decay? Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact? 2012-06-22T21:59:00Z Alpine buttercups track the sun's arc over the course of a day to keep their blossoms warm and appealing to heat-seeking pollinators. The Plant Kingdom's Most Unusual Talents [Slide Show] 2012-05-25T11:45:04.973Z From left: a bulbous buttercup, an owlet moth caterpillar and a Canada mayflower. City Room: Spring Time: After a Storm, Gifts on the Forest Floor 2012-05-10T16:57:38Z That little myth might be strung on the same string with the buttercup, which only reflects its golden hue upon the chins of those who love June butter. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z A girl and a woman walked in a buttercup plantation near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, April 30. Flower Power 2013-05-09T15:58:01Z Thus, the flower of the daisy is, as we shall see, analogous to that of the buttercup. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z From the sluggish water at the side, iris and bog-bean stood nobly up, and white-lilies floated on the still surface in lordly pride among the humbler wrack and scum of duckweed and water buttercup. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; Ð called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The moon is up, the moon is up, The larks begin to fly, And like a scarlet buttercup Aurora gilds the sky. Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field 2012-03-17T02:01:06.070Z Wherever cowslips crowded thick, Or banks of buttercups would be, A host of airy forms in white, Like ghosts of flowers returned, I see. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z The sky was pure blue, and beneath it the pastures shone yellow with buttercups. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Perhaps he goes off to the village shop to get flags, perhaps to your handkerchief case for tent-cloth, perhaps to the meadow beyond the orchard to gather buttercups. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Bowered in trees the lovely pale green meadow lay, all starred with buttercups and cut by the bronzed oval of the course. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Instead of sweet, fragrant bread of flowers, I am now forced to break my fast on acrid buttercup leaves. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z "The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice; And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace." The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z "You make me feel that I must pick buttercups or die." The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z A horse belonging to a farmer near Belford was having an old shoe removed, when a buttercup was found to have taken root between the hoof and the shoe, near the toe. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z His friendly eyes grew grave, and he began bending his hunting-whip into a bow, thoughtfully studying the buttercups at his feet. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z She would have liked to see the trees of the park, for a farewell, in their early June dress, the grass about them powdered with the yellow of buttercups. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z The first clear, beautiful note of a lark has been heard; skies are blue and fields are green; little frogs are filling the air with their music;—and the buttercups are here. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The lilacs in the station-yard at Kencote were heavy with their trusses of white and purple; the rich pastures that stretched away on either side of the line were yellow with buttercups. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z From the high-piled loads of hay journeying slowly to the mow fall the dried buttercups and daisies that danced in the mowing grass. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z I sat down on the grass beside her and began pulling buttercups. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The grass is growing long, and the buttercups and cowslips and blue-bells are all there. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Because some of the buttercups grow where frogs abound, Pliny bestowed the Latin name Ranunculus, meaning "little frog." The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Hither, in his boyhood, he made an almost daily pilgrimage, but not to gather the violets and the buttercups which lined its banks, or to hunt for blackbirds' nests in the swamp below. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z I scorned the song Which says that though young Love is strong The Fates are stronger: Then breezes blew a boon to men— Then buttercups were bright—and then This grass was longer. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Sir William rose to stand by the window, and his gaze softened towards the sunlit meadows where buttercups swayed with daisies, and blue flower-de-luce quivered in the wind. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z When apple-blossom time doth come And with their scent the air is filled, And fields are full of buttercups,— 'Tis then the swallows build. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The Indians, who seem to have a use for everything, parch the seeds of our common buttercup and beat them to a flour, which they eat without the further formality of cooking. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Slowly but surely does the baked clay stride over the clover and the buttercup; and yet every family in London may be supplied with milk by eight o'clock every morning at their own doors. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z On a May morning, when buttercups spangle the fresh grasses in the meadows, he rises from their midst into the air with the merriest frolic of a song you ever heard. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z But what struck me most were the buttercups. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The rest was an indiscriminate early-summer tangle of sumac; elderberry; bayberry; silver birches; wild roses; daisies; buttercups; and what would later be Queen Anne’s lace and goldenrod. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z We have a number of other species of buttercup—some of them denizens of marshy spots; but the common field buttercup is widest-spread and best known. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Year after year they watch the little buds unfold; then they fill their hands and pinafores with the golden buttercups, and carry them home as treasures to be loved and prized above all other flowers. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z "Well, I have in my cupboard some fried goldfish, boiled buttercups and pickled shoelaces," he answered. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z It was long and low and rather sad, standing in a garden all mossy grass and buttercups, with a few rhododendrons and flowery shrubs, below a row of fine old Irish yews. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Vellend walked me through a few Garry oak sites and told me a story as we strolled single file between slender but ancient and gnarled oak trunks, through buttercups, shooting stars, lomatium, and camas. A Scientific Argument for Intervening in Nature 2011-10-14T17:45:03.533Z Whole fields and hillsides are tinged with their warm olive foliage, or are yellow with their golden flowers, which appear like a fall revival of the buttercups. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In this they planted violet roots and buttercups and daisies which they found in the meadows. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z And when daisies and buttercups gladdened my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold.” The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z "And it would be a sin to stampede over these attractive buttercups," Nare pleaded. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z How dear the Geddle and the Pinkie Braes, Where bloomed the buttercup! Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride 2011-09-12T02:00:28.290Z Some painted theirs pink or red with rose leaves or japonica, some painted them yellow with buttercups, and some blue or purple with violets, as the first little girl had done. Making Up with Mr. Dog Hollow Tree Stories 2011-09-10T02:00:24.637Z The buttercups and daisies laughed up at me from the grass, the insects floated about on gauzy wings, while the birds darted from branch to branch in merry sport. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z It was a treat to see the cloud shadows chasing each other over the fields of wind-tossed wheat, or the meadows golden with buttercups, and starred with the ox-eyed daisies. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z At the first alarm the little one bolted and hid tremulously in a clump of buttercups, not daring to move for several minutes. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z His feet, sinking into the soft green carpet, were dusted over with the yellow pollen of the buttercups. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z The whites of her eyes, yellow as buttercups, were entrenched into my memory, haunting me after she disappeared around the corner. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z The blue scabious had no leaves to speak of, nor had the red knapweed, nor the yellow rattle, nor the white moon-daisies, nor golden buttercups, nor red sorrel. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z We saw the lark and the cowslip and the rest on the printed page with one eye, the bobolink and the buttercup, and so on, with the other in nature. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z In the heart of the vale a brook twinkles and buttercups lie in pools of gold, where lambs are playing together. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z In the spring the mowing grass rises thick, strong, and richly green, or hidden by the cloth-of-gold thrown over it by the buttercups! Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z He can judge a yard on the grass, because there is something to fix the eye on—the tall bennet or the buttercup yonder; but the water affords no data. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z As he lay with his knees up among the buttercups he heard the thump, thump of Mark’s feet rushing down the hill in eager haste with the auger. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Everywhere is yellow in spring, ranunculus, buttercups, celandine, and the yellow wallflowers sprouting among all the old walls of Gobelet. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z The very buttercups shine pale by contrast, and the apple-blooth, its blushes hidden from this distance, masses in pure, cold grey beneath the glow of these great roofs. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z It was indeed almost like a second spring: at the same time a few buttercups bloomed, to add to the illusion. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Yet the green sward continued to be decked with orfrey-work of many hues—buttercups, violets, rose-campion, speedwell, daisies—defiant little bright heads not three inches from the roots. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z As he came near a butterfly rose from the raft, having stayed a moment to see what this could be among the dandelions and buttercups, but Bevis was too deeply occupied to notice it. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Did you think you were going to spend your life sticking pins through butterflies and running about picking buttercups and daisies, as you did with your defrauding scoundrel of a father?” The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z They ran across her hands, they tickled her cheeks with their feathery feelers, they pelted her with buttercups, and at last began to cover her over with leaves of the wild rose. Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story 2011-07-18T02:00:19.717Z There is a tendency to variation even in the common buttercup. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Melon-flowers do not make up “for the buttercups, the little children’s dower.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Mark hung his head, turning his rosy cheeks down to the buttercups, and dragged his sturdy fever-stricken limbs along with an effort. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The grass was starred with daisies and buttercups, and the sweet scent of the lime blossoms hung in the air, a fitting bower for those living flowers that gathered there that day. In God's Garden Stories of the Saints for Little Children 2011-07-10T02:00:24.773Z Tottie, even, used to run about and pick great bunches of yellow flowers, which were so like buttercups, together with daisies and fringed violets, and was the merriest of the party. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Just outside the rickyard, where the grass of the meadow has not been mown but fed by cattle, grow the tall buttercups, rising to the knee. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z A large light straw hat shades the delicate oval face, and the glance of her dark eyes wanders joyously over sunlit meadows where lambs are frisking among the buttercups. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Two or three last buttercups flowered in the grass, and on a furze bush there were a few pale yellow blossoms not golden as in spring, but pale. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Not only children's heads, but mine, were wreathed with them; and many a lesson was given and learned under the trees, and on the grassy turf, golden with buttercups and dandelions. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z We might make ours sunshine-color, like the satiny inside of a buttercup or a drop of honey in a daffodil. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z He used to boast that he had not seen a buttercup for twenty years, and once he called the country "a Fool's Paradise." The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men 2011-06-24T02:00:21.977Z She wanders from the path and her dainty boots are powdered with yellow particles from the buttercups which her feet displace. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Into that place, already bright, she brought an added radiance as of the June sun on a field of buttercups. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z Soon other children came running to Helen with little hands full of buttercups and daisies, until she cried, “Enough, more than enough!” and commenced the weaving of the wreath. Randy's Summer A Story for Girls 2011-06-16T02:00:16.550Z The meadows were full of daisies, buttercups, and crimson clover, through which the blue-flies and bumble-bees fluttered and hummed their drowsy music. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z Milly was bewitchingly pretty in a fawn coloured shoulder cape, and a pancake hat piled with yellow buttercups. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z Ranunculus montanus fringes the cool base of a large stone; its whole height not over three inches, though its bright-yellow flowers are larger than field buttercups. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z To human eyes they are always young and fresh, like the buttercups that bespangled the grass before me, or like the sun that shone brightly upon the tranquil scene. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z Soon little Prue hastened back with three large daisies and a buttercup, asking if they were quite enough to make a wreath. Randy's Summer A Story for Girls 2011-06-16T02:00:16.550Z Gay little Goldenhead lived within a town Full of busy bobolinks, flitting up and down, Pretty neighbor buttercups, cosy auntie clovers, And shy groups of daisies, all whispering like lovers. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Over the grass he came hobbling, ungainly, abnormal, frowning down upon the buttercups. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z You'd never get rich selling a daisy and a lily and a little buttercup. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z How bright and cheerful the ragworts and buttercups looked, and what sweet and homelike music the robin made, singing from one of the apple-trees! A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z Among the buttercups and pink cherry blossoms, there were neat rows of porta potties. British Stiff Upper Lip Goes Wobbly For Will And Kate 2011-04-29T16:19:06Z Do you ever stop, Mrs. Featherhead, to mark the beauty of our wayside clover or the sparkle of a buttercup in the dew? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z A sandstone upstart in a countryside of flint, it stood aloof from the road, on a green knoll now yellow with buttercups, and shaded all day long by horse-chestnuts and elms. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z I have noticed that buttercups often make a mistake and grow six petals, instead of five.—C. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z Beyond sleeps Solomon, most faithful of husbands; and under this turf of buttercups and daisies lie Paris and Lovelace, arcades ambo, too early lost. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z There were a few wild flowers, even in December—a belated foxglove, a clump of ragwort, a blue harebell, or a stray specimen of buttercup, campion, herb robert, yarrow, thistle, and actually a strawberry blossom. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z One of the poorest children, gleaning in lanes and fields, had formed her crown wholly of buttercups and ox-eyed daisies, and wore it proudly. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z The mandrake's silken parasol Is fluttering in the breezes bold, And yonder where the waters brawl The buttercups show green and gold. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z A week later, the claytonia, or spring beauty, water-cress, violets, a low buttercup, vetch, corydalis, and potentilla appear. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z On the right, and stretching away towards the horizon, a wide expanse of quiet meadows starred with buttercups, and intersected by tall hawthorn hedges. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z Going round the field, he gathered some buttercups. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z “Buttercup” found the recently married Williams revealing more backbone than she’s shown in past relationship songs — “Good luck finding your buttercup” she snarled — and as much melodic oomph as ever. Lucinda Williams at the 9:30 Club, making misery sound sublime 2011-03-16T22:02:54Z Through a barley-field first; all the pale spears slanting westward in the level sun; then a field of old pasture, knapweeds purpling, little hawkweed clocks telling the time in fairyland, loitering buttercups. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z So the statues vanished, together with the grottoes and the terraces; but the sweet silent brook still ripples through the grounds, and its banks are covered with daisies and buttercups, and guarded by giant beeches. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z But the wind brought in the seeds of dwarf willow that sprouted and took root, and bright little buttercups began to come up and shiver in the flood of ice water. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Forget-me-nots and brown bells blossomed about the Apple Tree, and the green grass for miles about was thick with yellow buttercups. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z Harry pulls another buttercup out of the grass, and carefully deposits it beside the first. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z It is the gold of densely growing dandelions and of buttercups in great battalions. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z The air was full of fragrance, for here amid the grass grew violets and daisies and buttercups and other modest wildflowers. A Little Book of Profitable Tales 2011-03-03T03:00:47.690Z The daisies and buttercups are all very well in their way; but, as raw material for poetry, what are they to the deep-furrowed pavement and the blackened chimney-pots of a city! My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z The meadow was dotted with forget-me-nots and yellow buttercups, and the sun shone down on it; her geese were fine blue geese and uncommonly knowing. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z Harry frowns, plucks a buttercup growing in the grass, and is mute. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Every meadow I passed was starred with golden buttercups, and from every spray the birds trilled or jerked forth their merry songs of hope and love. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z Garlands of the yellow buttercup deck the plaited raven locks of each captive maid, and a plaintive song is chanted in soft mellow notes to beguile the hours of toil. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Lowing cows, knee-deep in meadow grass and buttercups, with swishing tails and pawing forelegs, impatiently await the opening gate. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z Then boys and girls came out to play beneath the trees and gather buttercups and bluebells. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z But the signs were everywhere, like birds and buttercups in spring. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z “Hop under the fence, little rabbit, and then hop across the meadow, over the daisies and buttercups, and you’ll find the place, never fear.” Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox 2011-01-29T03:00:21.820Z The cool mountain zephyr is redolent of eglantine and jasmine, and the soft green turf, spangled with clover, daisies, and buttercups, yields at every step the aromatic fragrance of the mint and thyme. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z As she leaned against the private door of her father’s shop, with the light of the lamp-post on hair that was the color of buttercups, she did look French. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z There were also buttercups, shiny and fat, like the man in the butcher's shop who was always smiling. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z He wandered out carelessly into the world of buttercups, following the stream where the feathered willows bent in a wave of falling green. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The boy's face fell, the dreamy look faded, and, with a patient sort of sigh, he rose and followed her, leaving his broken dream with his beloved book among the buttercups. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z Trails of forget-me-nots, poppies, marguerites, buttercups, and grass depending from the waist-belt to edge of skirt, and bodice trimmed to correspond. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z An abundance of wildflowers — woolly lousewort, campion, lupine, buttercups, Arctic poppy – create a carpet of color. A Caribou-bou in the Warming Arctic 2010-06-23T20:59:00Z You have often gathered buttercups and daisies, but have you ever gazed into the daisy's yellow eye, and thought how wonderful it was? Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners There was a whirr, a streak of burning yellow that lost itself against the sea of buttercups, and lo! The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Quite satisfied with this promise, the little maid fell to sticking buttercups in the band of the straw hat her own nimble fingers had braided, as if bent on securing one crown for her friend. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z It is either solitary, or several achenia may be placed on a common receptacle as in the buttercup. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Just at the time, I happened to be reading what Dr. Whitlaw, a foreign medical writer, says of the effects which sometimes follow when cows that are suckling calves feed on buttercup. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician You have held the pretty buttercup under your chin to make it look yellow, but have you ever looked carefully at the shining petals of gold? Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners He again remembered the buttercup meadows of Cambridge and the singing gardens of Algeria, the ecstasy, the light and heat of that exalted passion. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z A glutinous, golden buttercup is known as anata, which is nearly as abundant as its namesake in America. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands The dandelions' yellow coin Lie scattered in the tangled grass, And buttercup and crocus join To tell the way she chose to pass. The Coast of Bohemia The buttercups are beginning their golden show, and there is not much else to decorate the fields, except daisies and the cheerful dandelions. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Such golden fires, such yellows—lo, how good This spendthrift world, and what a lavish God— This fringe of wood, Blazing with buttercup and goldenrod. Challenge He saw a yellow scarf across the smoke; she saw perhaps, a breathless boy with a field of golden buttercups behind him. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z At the rear of the hall a broad door space makes a frame for a pretty picture,—a field of buttercups and daisies, a distant house, and two arching elms. Remodeled Farmhouses The drive was a mere rutted cart-track; hemlock, foxgloves, purple knapweed, blue scabious and tall, thin-stemmed buttercups grew along the tangled hedges, and the blackberry flowers patterned the brambles with pearliness. Beggars on Horseback The water meadows shone rich with gold, Gold that the buttercups had sold To the nibbling sheep of the red ring-fold. Provocations At the sight of the daisies and buttercups Goualeuse could not restrain her transport,—she did not leave one flower which she could gather. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Stella came from her big basket chair to greet him, and for a while he sat with her in the buttercups, watching Alan at the wicket. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Not among the buttercups, my friend, you may lay on that. Sinister Street, vol. 1 At one moment a peak was ebony black, at another—as the heavy clouds passed from over it, and the sun's rays illumined it through a thin mist—golden as a field of buttercups. The Unveiling of Lhasa Fields of buttercups lay like burnished gold in the summer sunshine. Under the Mendips A Tale Guy could sing all the way if he wished, for there was nothing but buttercups and daisies, lambs and meadows and greening willows, to overlook his progress. Plashers Mead A Novel The big buttercups grow in yellow bunches by the brink. Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895 Just outside the town there was observed a field golden with buttercups, making it difficult to realize that we were in Arctic regions. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The narcissus bloomed here very fragrant, contending wild-eyed with daisies and buttercups. Carnival And once a week a buttercup, And so the whole land over? Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 For once none of them lingered to pick buttercups, or even hunt the pigs. The Eagle's Nest They walked in silence along the quiet lane, golden with buttercups, into the cool shadow of the wood. A Question of Marriage A boy, whom I knew very well, was once going through a meadow, which was full of buttercups. Mopsa the Fairy Does the horse admire the rainbow? or does the ox spare the buttercup and the violet, because they are beautiful? Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. And roses, like the children, Abloom at every door, And buttercups as countless As the sand upon the shore. Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 In some orders the parts are numerous, chiefly in the case of the stamens and the carpels, as in the buttercup and other members of the order Ranunculaceae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" On her little table in front of the desk of the church were three or four buttercups in bloom, which she had gathered in an afternoon walk, with three or four heads of hawksweed. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories "Flowers know most about the earth elves, so I will ask them," he thought, and began to ask every clover and buttercup, wood-violet, and wayside dandelion that he met. Lulu's Library, Volume II The pink azalea, or swamp pink, violets, buttercups, and all kinds of meadow beauties began peeping up all around. Maid Sally So the butterfly has to be pinned down by the buttercup. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Of the more abundant smaller flora families, the daisy, pea, grass, pink, nettle, mustard, parsley, figwort, rose, buttercup, and lily groups has more than fifty species that can be found within Albania. Area Handbook for Albania The buttercup green of the meadows, The snow of the blossoming may, Lovelier are not than the legions of children Magic hath stolen away. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems He tried the buttercups and dandelions, the violets and mignonette, the lilies and the honeysuckles, but all shut their doors against him and told him to go away. Lulu's Library, Volume II So in a spirit of sport Sally put it on, and at breast and waist she pinned great posies of buttercups, daffy-down-dillies, and sprays of fresh green leaves. Maid Sally It is not your fault, my sweet little girl; it is the fault, if at all, of the world, which has decreed that the butterfly, to flirt legitimately with the buttercup, must suffer the corking-pin. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June We saw upon the shady banks Long rows of golden flowers shine, And first mistook for buttercups 5 The star-shaped yellow celandine. Graded Poetry: Third Year The hills burst into buttercups, "blue eyes," yellow and purple lupins, the heavy pungent gold-red poppy. Ancestors A Novel Around the margin were the golden smile of buttercups and the blue glance of forget-me-nots. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children This next meadow is somewhat more raised, and not watered; the grass is high, and full of buttercups. The Hills and the Vale The blackbird was singing as he only sings after rain, and the fields were covered with the gold and silver dust of buttercup and daisy. An Isle in the Water B I grow in the bean, And to beauty I lean, And when buttercups bloom I am there; I bend the boy's bow, And the bugle I blow, Till I wake the Kamtchatcadale bear. Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children Her hat was covered with poppies and wild azalea, and she had a sheaf of buttercups and "blue eyes" in her belt. Ancestors A Novel On the occasion above referred to, I also dissented from Lowell's statement, in "Al Fresco," that in early summer the dandelion blooms, in general, with the buttercup and the clover. A Year in the Fields Running at his call she flew into his arms and dropped her buttercup head on his shoulder. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon Large butterflies with crimson and golden wings were flying to and fro in the air, and the wild bee pursued its honey-making in the buttercups. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 For her, of buttercups and violets, A circlet for her hair he makes; And sings, in roundelays and triolets, A song that soon her fancy takes. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts How velvety and soft was the grass, how yellow the buttercups! and she was sure she saw a humming-bird dipping down into the flowers in the Motherkin's garden. The Princess Idleways A Fairy Story The meadow which it divided was dotted everywhere with little clumps of large yellow buttercups. The Moving Finger I can see the white roses climbing All over the low porch door, And the daisies and buttercups growing— I never half loved them before. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 ALL among the buttercups, All among the hay! Happy Days for Boys and Girls For her, of buttercups and violets, A circlet for her hair he makes; And sings, in roundelays and triolets, A song that soon her fancy takes. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts Joe used to slumber in the meadows among the buttercups, or in the loft, or near the kitchen-fire, as the season and weather invited. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit For they came to a stream and her fairy lover Caught at her hand and swung her over, And the broad wet buttercups laughed and gilded Their golden knees in the deep sweet clover. Collected Poems Volume One A child of three or four was playing in the tall grass among the nodding buttercups and daisies. Futurist Stories Too long in the meadow staying, Where the cowslip bends, With the buttercups delaying As with early friends, Did the little maiden stay. Happy Days for Boys and Girls It came naturally, just as the buttercups in the meadow in spring, and the blush on the heather in July. The Broom-Squire “Shall it be buttercups, or daisies, or both?” thought the Angel to herself. Daddy's Girl Has saw teeth for making crimped edged buttercups. The Candy Maker's Guide A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling He picked a buttercup, and held it up to her chin. Very Short Stories and Verses For Children She never is silent; the whole summer day She is off on the green with the blossoms at play; Now seeking a buttercup, plucking a rose, Or laughing aloud at the thistle she blows. Happy Days for Boys and Girls His daisies, his buttercups, his orange hawkweed, his yarrow, his meadow-rue, serve my purpose better than they do his. Under the Maples There were violets and primroses, and quantities of buttercups and daisies, amongst these treasures. Daddy's Girl Process.—As usual, buttercups of any sort or flavor may be made by following the directions given, and substituting different essences, jams, chopped nuts or almonds, and color to fancy. The Candy Maker's Guide A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling Round her head there was a wreath of buttercups; it was not much like a crown. Very Short Stories and Verses For Children "I'll tell you," said Judy, who as usual was pleasing herself with a cup of strong coffee; "they are like buttercups come to town and grown polished." Trading He got up and moved slowly down the aisle, opening the door, seeing again the meadow of buttercups, yellow as gold, and listening again to the sparrows chirruping in the sunshine outside. Robinetta “Which is the prettiest, buttercups or daisies, or the two twisted up together?” she said. Daddy's Girl He had even ventured a little way up the meadow-path, but it made him giddy to stoop to pick a buttercup. Amaryllis at the Fair A month later we come upon a buttercup, one of whose sepals has grown out as a small but perfect leaf. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Many sheep with their lambs were feeding in this meadow, and here also were abundance of primroses, cowslips, daisies, and buttercups, and the songs of the birds which were in the hedgerows were exceedingly delightful. The Fairchild Family His shoes were gilded by the pollen from the buttercups, his eyes dazzled by their colour; it was a relief to pass through the stone archway that led into the little churchyard. Robinetta “Here I come,” she cried, “here I come, buttercups and daisies and violets and me.” Daddy's Girl And then Judith peeped at me through the 197 cluster of buttercups with the ghost of a roguish twinkle. The Cruise of the Shining Light He bent to the oars until he had gained lead enough to save himself with a sidelong jump into the buttercups. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry And slyly when the world is sleeping yet, He smooths out collars for the Easter daisies, And fashions golden buttercups to set In woodland mazes. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems She looked out at the glistening reaches of the river, now shining through the silver mist; at the fields yellow with buttercups, and the folds of the distant hills. Robinetta And then a meadow full of long, deep grass and summer flowers, and I—industriously picking buttercups into a tiny petticoat to take to cook, "to make the butter with," I said. The Prodigal Returns He rubbed some of the yellow of the egg off his chin, and stuck it on his leg like a buttercup. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Then you again shall dine and sup On daisy white and buttercup. Pinafore Palace And, though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower —Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning She 195 had allowed herself just five minutes of depression, staring out at the buttercup meadow. Robinetta Said Mr. Mouse,—“I know a place Where nice sweet grass is growing; Where corn-flowers blue, and buttercups And poppies red, are blowing.” Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad They may never again gather so many ox-eye daisies and buttercups “all at once.” Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Shall not the babe and buttercup rejoice, Twins in one meadow? The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 The old oaks and the buttercups and the village rector and the dear cows. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 The field was full of buttercups up to the very churchyard walls. Robinetta Where are the buttercups and beautiful blue iris from the field below the hill? The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska The two other children were toiling up and down the banks of the railroad track, picking ox-eye daisies, buttercups, and sorrel. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Walking down the lane all together, the little cousin was dazzled by buttercups, and ran hither and thither gathering them in such wild delight that she came upon Dowsabell, the cow, unexpectedly. Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Acre after acre of bluebells, forget-me-nots, daisies, buttercups, and cowslips converted the entire valley into a vast "old-fashioned garden," radiantly beautiful. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' “Shall we walk through the buttercup meadow, then––you and I?” asked Lavendar. Robinetta No, no, Aunt, but it is early for iris, and the buttercups are not half so lovely as these bluets and violets. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska A boy, whom I knew very well, was once going through a meadow which was full of buttercups. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales There you will see all the beauty of the world, and will laugh at the thought of having been content in this dull meadow, with its stupid daisies and buttercups, and its paltry little brook. Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. And the fields, look, knee-deep in long grasses and daisies and buttercups. Daisy's Aunt They shook the air, the earth, the ancient stones, the very nests upon the trees, and sent the rooks flying black as ink against the yellow buttercups in the meadow. Robinetta On the 14th of April I was in the woods, and I found two buttercups. Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly "And yet what a dear little puppy it was!" said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson There was tea in a buttercup, cream in a blue-bell, Marigold butter and hollyhock cheese, Slices of strawberry served in a nutshell, And honey just brought by the liveried bees. Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. Well, when the little rabbit had finished his work, he hopped out to the Sunny Meadow where Mr. Merry Sun was making the buttercups grow more yellow every day, and the daisies whiter. Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures Now, suppose you count those flattened, round-cornered parts of the buttercup—how many are there?” Every Girl's Book "Fear not," the flowers whisper; "Since thus he hath arrayed The buttercup and daisy, How canst thou be afraid?" Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul She was a neatly dressed girl, with an air; but on that bright afternoon in Fifth Avenue neatly dressed girls with an air were as buttercups in June. The Dust Flower I observed also a sort of crocus and some cheery little buttercups. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse —A primrose-winged rover was meandering about in the soft air before them, flitting over the buttercups with a listless sort of admiration. Say and Seal, Volume II What she saw was a bee hovering over a bright yellow buttercup that grew almost within reach of where she sat. Every Girl's Book "It is a tidy tie," Ranny admitted, smiling because of the buttercups. The Combined Maze There is no time when a drive along wooded country roads is more charming than when the trees are fast growing green, and the meadows spangled with daisies and buttercups. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast It was gay, too, with patches of yellow buttercups, of primroses, and golden whins. The Irish Twins "You see how appropriate they are to my Sunbeam—for 'The buttercup catches the sun in his chalice'." Say and Seal, Volume II The little baby buttercups would begin to grow right away, mamma?” Every Girl's Book The buttercups and dandelions craned themselves forward to peep. Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly I have a little kitten named "Buttercup," and she is just as sweet and pretty as any buttercup that ever grew, and so good and so cunning. Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Almost time for the buttercups yellow, The ferns and the flowers, the roses and all, To waken from slumber, and merrily hasten To gladden our hearts at the spring's first call. Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly "Do you know how you will have to scour the country now, and make yourself as much as possible like cowslips and buttercups and primroses and mouse-ear?" said Mr. Linden smiling. Say and Seal, Volume II The flowers, like the children, were from the rich man's garden or from the woods and meadows—here choice roses or glowing verbenas, there buttercups and daisies. The Golden House The buttercups and purple magnolias are blooming also, but I could not press them to send them to you. Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The selfish instincts are not subdued by the sight of buttercups, nor is integrity in the least established by that classic rural occupation, sheep-washing. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete His quilt will be as sweet as ours— Bright buttercups and cuckoo-flowers. Harper's Young People, December 2, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Outside in the country, even in the suburbs, June came in glory, with woods in freshest livery of green, with fragrance of hawthorn and broom and gorse, buttercup meadows and gardens brimmed with roses. The Invader A Novel It was long and low, and rather sad, standing in a garden all mossy grass and buttercups, with a few rhododendrons and flowery shrubs, below a row of fine old Irish yews. Tatterdemalion Guy Fawkes has been burned for the last time; the Jack in the Green dances no longer in cowslips and buttercups on the first of May. Highways and Byways in Surrey Before it lies the glorious Plain of Troy, which is covered with grass and yellow buttercups; on the north northwest, at about an hour's distance, it is bounded by the Hellespont. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life She went happily along, and soon came to a meadow gay with yellow buttercups. The Enchanted Castle A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland A glutinous, golden buttercup is known as anata, nearly as abundant as its namesake in America. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands A pleasant place it was,—so clean and cool, and as full of sweet odors as if the ghosts of buttercups and clover still haunted the milk which they had helped to make. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. Webster is lovely then—all filled with daisies and buttercups and wild roses. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley But the sweet summer swallows sing on the branches; they do not see the wallowing animal, they see only the sunshine and the summer, golden buttercups and blue sky. The Toilers of the Field "My name is Fairy Yellow, and I am Queen of the buttercups and daffodils, and all the yellow flowers; here come my sisters, Fairy Red and Fairy Blue." The Enchanted Castle A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland Just outside of the town a field is seen golden with buttercups, making it difficult to realize that we are in the Arctic regions. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands She delighted in the village green, the rectory garden, the fields waving with golden buttercups, and the shady woods in which the primroses twinkled. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds The order is nearly allied to the buttercup order in having the parts of the flowers all free and arranged in regular succession below the ovary which consists of only one carpel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" So that the bird came upon me unexpectedly out from the shadow of the trees that overhang the water, past me, and on into the sunshine over the buttercups and sorrel of the field. The Toilers of the Field That's an anemone: We call it so because the leaves are torn So easily by the wind; for anemos Is Greek for wind."—"Oh! here's a buttercup! The Woman Who Dared Munn watched him for a moment, plucked another buttercup, pondered, smoothed out his rich, brown, silky beard, and finally mentioned a second sum. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories They are daisy and buttercup women of earth Who grace common ways with their sweetness and worth. Three Women Later the higher parts were thickly sprinkled with white where "Gracefully as does the fawn, Sweet Marguerites their dainty heads uphold," while the hollows were golden with buttercups. Little Brothers of the Air The pale corn buttercup is in flower by the New Road, not in the least overshadowed by the crops at the edge of which it grows. The Toilers of the Field Accordingly, next day, she sat off to look for a proper situation; she passed through the orchard hedge into a beautiful green meadow, all covered with daisies, red clover, cowslips, and golden buttercups. Little Downy The History of A Field-Mouse Eyebright kept a glass of wild roses or buttercups or white daisies always on the table. Eyebright A Story The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart's-ease. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Outside, over the swelling undulations of rich grass the sheep came back with close-cropped, ungainly bodies to a land that was yellow with buttercups. The Wonder Gentians and buttercups, too, have their own nurseries. Jonah and Co. The hawthorn was bursting into leaf, all bright and green, and here and there the wild flowers were showing themselves, the buttercup and the speedwell. The Hero I was forced to take the form of a jackdaw for twenty years because I once said that gold was not as yellow as buttercups nor so bright as sunshine. The Magic Soap Bubble There they grow and thrive, the slender green stalks tossing their pearly disks among sister groves of buttercups till the eye is fairly dazzled with the symphony of white and gold. Ladies-In-Waiting Fields of buttercups and clover come near to the shore, but inland lies the moorland waste of Pradanack and Goonhilly Downs. The Cornwall Coast Bertha made it up into beautiful rolls, which she printed with a stamp representing buttercups and clover-flowers, and it looked deliciously tempting. Stories of Many Lands The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendour: The round snow-bud of the thorn in the wood Peeped through its leafage tender, As the rain came softly falling. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature THE seventh road was a good road, and curved this way and that—winding through green meadows and fields covered with daisies and buttercups and past groups of shady trees. The Road to Oz Rosemary, picking a buttercup for Shirley, was surprised to hear a sudden shout. Rainbow Hill The golden buttercups laugh up in the sun's face, as if there were no drama of loving and hating, sin and atonement, daily enacted on their green, motherly bosom. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter I expect to see grass growing in the streets before I die, and I shall not have to live long to pluck buttercups under the King's Arms. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin So you walk on striking idly with your stick at the daisies and buttercups that border your path. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 For some five minutes or so he leant at the little casement window, gazing at the gold of the buttercups 97 seen through a blurred mist of rain. Antony Gray,—Gardener But Mary could not be persuaded to give up her prejudices and would none of the snakes, so they decided to gather buttercups, and wandered off among the soft grasses on the hilltop. Three Little Cousins Fancy wandering about with a cow for your chaperon and the birds for critics, a rural pasture for your ball-room, a buttercup meadow for your lounge! When the Birds Begin to Sing One of the buttercups, Ranunculus multifidus, and very likely others, spread over the mud by producing runners, much after the manner of a strawberry plant. Seed Dispersal Study of Plants: Class lessons based on a flowering garden plant, as pansy, aster, nasturtium; study of a field plant, as buttercup, goldenrod, dandelion. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Thus we can make 45 a bunch of buttercups and violets, using twice as many of the latter, so that the eye sees an area of blue twice as great as the area of yellow-red. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma Could I be with you I would choose your noon, Drown amid buttercups, laugh with the intimate grass, Dream there forever.... American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Quick as lightning she flies away—faster—faster—through the buttercups, while he pursues, nearer—nearer—and then the strong arms arrest her career, and the inevitable kiss occurs. When the Birds Begin to Sing The whole atmosphere of our life is in fact changed, and it is amusing to recognize how much of the change we owe to the buttercup. Stray Studies from England and Italy Other wild flowers suitable for Form I are buttercup, spring beauty, dog's-tooth violet, hepatica, and trillium. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study It is futile to encourage children in efforts to rival the poppy or buttercup, even with the strongest pigments obtainable. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma There you'll lie In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you, Drown amid buttercups that blaze in the wind, Forgetting all save beauty. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany It was gone, with its two beautiful trees of hawthorn; and where the hedge, the turf, and all the buttercups and daisies had been, there was nothing but the stoniest of jolting roads. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Unluckily the holidays pass away, and the buttercup passes away like the holidays. Stray Studies from England and Italy From your roseleaf cheeks, I fancy you drink only honeydew or buttercup tea.” Patty's Friends We have no blue flower that can equal the chroma of the buttercup. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma Still other flowers found a place in this early horticultural catalogue, the marigold, gladiolus, stocks, lily-of-the-valley and buttercups. Royal Palaces and Parks of France The first player lays out one from his pile, say a buttercup. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Nobody is so exacting, so capricious, so uncertain, so fascinating as a buttercup, because no one is so perfectly free from love. Stray Studies from England and Italy "Oh rubbish" laughed Helen and she stooped down to pick a buttercup. Daisy Ashford: Her Book The painter knows that pigments cannot rival the brilliancy of the buttercup and poppy, enhanced by their surroundings. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma A robin who had flown too high, and felt a little lazy, Was resting near this buttercup who wished she was a daisy. Graded Memory Selections His breathing I ween is the wonderful sheen, That clothes trees and meadows with loveliest green, The buttercups bold, it need hardly be told, Are gilded by him with the finest of gold. Christmas Roses The buttercup flirts, but she flirts in such an open and ingenuous fashion that nobody is a bit the worse for it. Stray Studies from England and Italy "I suppose if we opened a window he would turn his back on all this vain-glory, and float away to a roadside buttercup." The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening Go and pick buttercups and daisies along with him for a few days, and then come back to me quite compos mentis, and we’ll see what can be done.” Witness to the Deed And buttercups must always be the same old tiresome color; While daisies dress in gold and white, although their gold is duller. Graded Memory Selections He jumped for the golden buttercups, nipping them from their stems. Bird Stories But it is just this utterly illogical, unreasonable, inconsequential character that gives the pursuit of the buttercup its charm. Stray Studies from England and Italy Playing in the gorse and the ling together, and the daisies and the buttercups—and then the curlews whistling and the river singing like music, and the bees ahumoning—aw, terr'ble sweet and nice. Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon And she made him a feast at his earnest wish Of eggs and buttercups fried with fish;— And she said,—"It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes." Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Be the best buttercup you can, and think no flower above you. Graded Memory Selections When we had separated the dogs she went into her house and banged the door, and we went on through the green flat marshes, among the buttercups and may-bushes. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune But the buttercup lies outside of the rules of war. Stray Studies from England and Italy She picks blue centauries, scarlet poppies, cuckoo-flowers, and buttercups, which she also knows as little chicks. Child Life In Town And Country 1909 You're nicer in your own bright gown; The little children love you; Be the best buttercup you can, And think no flower above you. Tabitha at Ivy Hall Look bravely up into the sky and be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup, just here where you are growing.” Graded Memory Selections We might have had poppies or buttercups, but we thought the colours might be too loud. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune And with the death of the dawn the buttercup passes insensibly away. Stray Studies from England and Italy Daintily fanning himself with his wings, the butterfly went before Bevis, not yet knowing that he was chased, but sauntering along just above the buttercups. Wood Magic A Fable "What's that about a buttercup?" asked a merry voice behind her, so unexpectedly that Tabitha nearly fell out of the hammock. Tabitha at Ivy Hall The bird’s-eyes bright; Pink-tipp’d daisies; sorrel red, Drooping o’er the lark’s green bed; Oxlips; glazed buttercups, Out of which the wild bee sups; See! they dance about thy feet! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Oh, how they enjoyed the warm sunshine while they filled their little baskets with violets, buttercups, and spring beauties! Light On the Child's Path It is not the least debt we owe to the holidays that they give us our buttercups back again. Stray Studies from England and Italy And the great bumble-bee flew slowly between the iron railings, out among the buttercups, and away up the field. Wood Magic A Fable Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.' Tabitha at Ivy Hall "There's a buttercup behind you," groaned the Goblin, and Davy, turning, saw a buttercup growing on a stem almost as tall as he was himself. Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' This is the way the sun comes up: Gold on brooks and glossy leaves, Mist that melts above the sheaves, Vine and rose and buttercup,— This is the way the sun comes up. The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 The pet brother is as necessary an element in buttercup life as the friend. Stray Studies from England and Italy The tall buttercups brushed his knees, and bent on either side as if a wind was rushing through them. Wood Magic A Fable "About buttercups?" teased Bertha, tickling her throat with a long grass. Tabitha at Ivy Hall Now it was a big bunch of field-daisies or golden buttercups, now a green glory of spicy ferns, now a cluster of old-fashioned garden flowers. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 He lived in the house in winter, but in spring Mother set him out in the flower-bed, just beside the double buttercup. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls In the town the buttercup was nobody, silent, unnoticed, lost in the bustle and splendour of elder sisterdom. Stray Studies from England and Italy "Race on," said the buttercups; "race on, Bevis; that butterfly disdains us because we are so many, and all alike." Wood Magic A Fable We had a long ride out to the Seal-Rocks, past great wavy hills, with patches of gold, brighter than the dandelions and buttercups are at home. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California She did not recover her good spirits until we were out on the pretty, grassy, elm-shaded country road, garlanded with its ribbon of buttercups. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 He wasn't very interesting, Old Moneybags, but the buttercups were lovely. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls There are days when the buttercup runs amuck among her adorers, days of snubbing and sarcasm and bitterness. Stray Studies from England and Italy Bevis!" said the thrush, and he turned round to listen: "My dearest Bevis, have you forgotten the meadow, and the buttercups, and the sorrel? Wood Magic A Fable “Never found him fond o’ buttercups and daisies, or prospects and views and that sort o’ thing?” The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne I wish I was a buttercup, Upon the mountain top, That you might sweetly pick me up, And sweetly let me drop. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story In the open down, beside the tidal rivers with their brown sails creeping among the buttercups, everywhere there is beauty. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Then there is a return of pure girlhood, days in which the buttercup is simply the buttercup again. Stray Studies from England and Italy Lips long used to wailing swell that chorus loudest, for it was the sunshine caught in buttercup or dandelion that turned so many darkened faces in sudden smiles to heaven. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Little girls and boys are straying, Or in sunny meadows playing, Seeking buttercups and clover, While their hearts with joy run over; But—what goose can't see it plainly?— The Nursery, April 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People The root of the buttercup is also a very favourite food of the pheasant, and they will eat greedily of acorns. Mamma's Stories about Birds Theodora's gown was damp with the falling dew, as they rolled quietly on between fields pale with sleepy daisies and nodding buttercups. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen And meanwhile the buttercup drifts on, recking little of us and of our thoughts, into a world mysterious and unknown to her. Stray Studies from England and Italy They do not mind the shadows dark, Nor feel the bitter wind; If I could be a buttercup, I really shouldn't mind.' Chatterbox, 1906 She wandered again, a happy child, in country pastures gathering violets and buttercups. The Right Knock A Story By a buttercup field we came to land And every passenger lent a hand To unload our food and spread it out, While the cows stood flapping their tails about. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 Groups of merry-faced dog-daisies nodded in the ditch, and round their stalks were buttercups, and beyond them the rich yellow of marsh marigolds. The Northern Iron The next season steals her from us; it is only the holidays that give her to us, and dispel half our conventionality, our shams, our conceit with the laugh of the buttercup. Stray Studies from England and Italy At break of day I hurried down, To gather them with care; Yet nought I saw but buttercups And daisies lying there. Chatterbox, 1906 For picnics and for rambles A polished buttercup. Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann The Dean and I one day came across one of these little flowers, looking just like a buttercup, only the whole plant was—well, the littlest thing you ever did see. Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner It is possible that no master ever painted a buttercup like this one, or the fringe of a robe like that one; that this poet has a unique subtlety, and that an undefinable music. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV We remember the story of a certain parson of our acquaintance who owned to a meek little buttercup his habit of carrying a book in his pocket for reading in leisure hours. Stray Studies from England and Italy So now, I think the buttercups And daisies in the green Are jewels from the treasure-store Of the kind Fairy Queen. Chatterbox, 1906 Yes, indeed it is a beautiful cluster; it is the marsh-marigold, and looks like a gigantic buttercup; it is sometimes in flower as early as March, and continues to blossom for three months or more. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children From the blood of battlefields spring daisies and buttercups. The Melting-Pot "To sit and pick buttercups, and ask the Huns to shoot 'em?" No Man's Land Still more does the sister of a couple of seasons wonder at the ardour and fidelity of buttercup friendships. Stray Studies from England and Italy That if one holds a buttercup under a person's chin and a yellow light is reflected upon that person's chin, it is a sign that he likes butter. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind It is the globe flower, so called from the rounded shape of the corolla; it is one of the buttercup family, as you will, perhaps, guess. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children Some red clovers were in bloom, and a few belated buttercups. A Little Girl of Long Ago Why, you look like a lily astray in a bed of buttercups. A Little Girl in Old New York But in the pure equality of earlier days the buttercup shares half the games and all the secrets of the boys about her, and brotherhood and sisterhood are very real things indeed. Stray Studies from England and Italy “After dandelions, buttercups, After buttercups, clover; One blossom follows another one, Over and over and over!” sang Julia one evening, when Flaxie was making ready to take her medicine. The Twin Cousins "Well, but, papa," said May, "the flowers are white, and I thought all buttercups were yellow." Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children We’ll go to the meadow, where cowslips do grow, And buttercups looking as yellow as gold; And the daisies and violets beginning to blow, For it is a most beautiful sight to behold. Sweets for Leisure Hours Amusing Tales for Little Readers She had a new straw gypsy with a wreath of buttercups, and soft yellow strings tied under her chin. A Little Girl in Old New York It is the sudden discovery of a new sense of enjoyment that first whirls the buttercup out of her purely family affections. Stray Studies from England and Italy As it is not an uncommon practice to stick a daisy on a buttercup, it is to be hoped no hoax was played off on M. Romer. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Fields a sheet of yellow buttercups, with faint lilac lines formed by cuckoo-flowers on the margins of carriers and ditches. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler Besides the above-mentioned flowers, we saw wild roses and buttercups and flox and privet, and whole acres of the wand-like lily. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 The cow, to change the metaphor, will generally give her milk all the better if she is not in the act of being stroked or patted or wreathed with buttercups. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 There is something delightfully cometary about the affection of the buttercup. Stray Studies from England and Italy And buttercups are coming, And scarlet columbine; And in the sunny meadows The dandelions shine. The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children Acting upon this, he turned the spoil out upon the buttercups. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler His quilt will be as sweet as ours— Bright buttercups and cuckoo flowers. Under the Window Pictures & Rhymes for Children And how the buttercups and daisies dance To meet my dazzled glance! The Inn of Dreams Unconsciously month after month drifts the buttercup on to womanhood; consciously she lives in the past of the child. Stray Studies from England and Italy A robin, who had flown too high, And felt a little lazy, Was resting near a buttercup Who wished she were a daisy. The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children She could remember just how comically that boy’s nose twitched when she was waking him up with a buttercup blossom. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Sweetheart pored into the depths of a buttercup. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North This little buttercup was bound to join the heavenly choir. Quaint Epitaphs The secret is simply that the buttercup is at home, and that with the close of her bondage comes a grace and a naturalness that take her out of the realms of bread-and-butter. Stray Studies from England and Italy |
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