| 单词 | columbine |
| 例句 | Then like country folk without any cares, we lay in the meadow, surrounded by tallgrass, and wove garlands of white daisies and purple columbines to crown each other. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Stargazer lilies, irises, parrot tulips, tuberoses, sweet williams, columbines, amaryllis... The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I add bouquets of columbine, fennel, and daisies from my garden. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Around her neck I placed a garland of aromatic fennel stalks, their flat golden blooms woven with drooping columbines. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “She allowed them to look at her for only a few seconds and then she bounded across the place where the columbines grew in summer and disappeared among the trees.” Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Its galleries were full of fabulous landscapes and animal paintings, and the fine landscaping of the property included ever-appealing columbine flowers and aspen trees. A family shares the grandeur of Wyoming 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Many feature East Coast natives, including trillium, columbine, Indian pink and twinleaf. Kusamono: The softer side of bonsai 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Carpets of delicate bluebells, columbines and primroses brightened the forest. Follow in the footsteps of Scottish folk hero on the Rob Roy Way 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Sunflowers are willing partners, but columbines are stinting. The ground is cold, but the seed market is open for business 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The air smelled like stagnant water, rotting wood, pine and sweet columbine. On the Water, and Into the Wild 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Along the way, she would pluck deep purple columbine and yellow baptisia blossoms from her garden overlooking the town of Ellicott’s Mills far below. How a garden once lost to history is being brought back into bloom 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z This means adding plants so that they read in the landscape with others, and removing some seedlings to bring definition to a prodigious colony of, say, greater celandine or columbines. At the Mount Cuba Center, native plants flourish in their natural setting 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Our days will be spent hiking nearby peaks, exploring a rock garden in a not-too-distant canyon, playing Scrabble, preparing big, nourishing meals, admiring the columbine, lupine and larkspur, and simply taking it all in. An equally great way to hit Colorado’s slopes: Without the snow. Here’s how. 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z To Claudius and Gertrude, she offers fennel and columbines, which are said to symbolize flattery and infidelity, as well as the bitter herb rue, an abortifacient that signifies either repentance or disdain. Revisiting the Posy in Our Current Moment 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z You can help your gardens along by selecting plants that re-seed themselves — flowers such as columbine, coreopsis, and lupine will self-sow and spread throughout your gardens each year. 6 ways to add a touch of wildness to your garden 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z We would climb the small hill into Riverside Park’s Ninety-first Street garden for a water stop, and Oliver would become absorbed by a crocus, columbine, hyacinth, or tulip. A Year Without Oliver Sacks 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Nearby, tiny Oregon irises are just starting to bloom adjacent to native columbines. This Thurston County farm helps restore prairies with native seeds 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z One message the vandals left: “There’s going to be a #columbine massacre.” American school shooters inspire teen killers abroad 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Thick vegetation lines the trail, including giant cottonwood, creek dogwood, willow and red cedar trees, as well as various species of fern, red columbine, thistle, wild ginger and dozens of other native plants. How relocating beavers in WA is meant to help young salmon 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z By summer, the meadows are illuminated with the bright colors of blue bells, paintbrush, columbine, glacier lilies, purple penstemon and more. Love Washington wildflowers? Try these 5 hikes this spring 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Our forest floors should be carpeted with Virginia bluebells, trillium, skunk cabbage, jewelweed, ferns, spring beauty, trout lily, columbine and more. Opinion | Ah, to see native flora in our local lands 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Q: A friend gave me seeds for blue columbine, which seems quite wonderful and different. Garden Q&A: How to remove invasive grass, compost cardboard and more 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Even something as charming as columbine can overdo itself, so I deadhead a portion of the seed heads. It’s peak frustration time in the garden, but you can get past it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Their woodlands theme box uses bleeding heart, hosta and columbine; an indoor “jungle box” includes monstera and elephant’s ear; and a “Southern belle” box mixes foxglove, snapdragon, sweet potato vines and dusty miller. Going beyond the traditional window-box garden 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Staircases that had simple bevels and architecture give way to columbines, lotuses and other ornate features carved into the walnut and mahogany. Memories linger decade after huge Provo Tabernacle fire 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Hamed responded by saying “the spirit of columbine is within me.” Police: Man spread terror propaganda before officer attack 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Seeds of most columbine species do not require cold in order to germinate, but hot soil temperatures should be avoided. Garden Q&A: How to remove invasive grass, compost cardboard and more 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z In his absence, my attention immediately shifted to something his presence had obscured — a golden columbine bush. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He wants them to kneel before a flower, to photograph the changing shades of a columbine, the dancing of lupines, the petals splaying from an Indian paintbrush’s stem. Crested Butte full of flowers as displays missing statewide 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z A short-lived perennial, columbine grows best in well-drained soil with afternoon shade. These Are the 10 Best Flowers to Plant This Fall 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z While descending the summit amid the sunflowers and columbine, the athletic schoolteacher was hit by lightning. Summer lightning over Rockies proves deadly, but Colorado hikers are undeterred 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The person wrote in the post that she was “gonna pull a columbine … before I graduate.” Police: teenage girl made ‘Columbine’ threat to school 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z An email sent early Thursday to Nashville’s Antioch High School threatened a “columbine or sandy hook like shooting” and made graphically violent threats against a specific teacher. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z These include roses, begonias, daffodils, geraniums, crocus, columbine, clematis and cactus, according to the ACAAI. Keep Allergies in Mind When Planning Valentine's Day 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z White valerian, pink phlox, orange lilies, and red columbine. Scientist on Rainier chases climate change’s butterfly effect 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z There’s memory, that’s for remembrance; pray, you, love, remember...and there is pansies; that’s for thought...there’s fennel for you, and columbine; there’s rue...you must wear your rue with a difference. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Another striking exception, and one which would have puzzled De Candolle for its color classification, is the columbine. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z One tulip, a smart little flirt, Screams loudly and long for the rose; But a wee, giddy, columbine bud Does flippantly interpose. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Among the rocks, twinkling red and yellow in the sandy, sunny places, the columbine swings her cups of honey impartially for glittering humming bird and blunt-nosed, serious bee. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z The river has worn miniature caves and grottoes in its base; at the mouths of several of these there are little rocky beaches, whose overhanging walls are flecked with ferns, lichens, and graceful columbines. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Beyond their pale, a humbler throng, Grew Bouncing Bet and columbine; The mountain fringe ran all along The thick-set hedge of cinnamon roses, And overhung the eglantine. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Only his tongue, that may be run out beyond his long, slender bill and turned around curves, could reach the drops of nectar in the tips of the wild columbine's five inverted horns of plenty. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Tom waved his head up and down as his way was when anyone asked him a question, and harlequin, satisfied with this silent consent, ran off to find a columbine and to dance the galop. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z The largest columbines ever found grow here; and sweet peas in all conceivable shades of coloring. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Large and beautiful columbines are found in the lee of protecting masses of snow banks and glaciers. Rocky Mountain [Colorado] National Park 2011-11-05T02:00:11.333Z She asked if there were many places in Norway where barberry and columbine grew wild? In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z We have passed thousands of flowers since leaving Loveland, white poppies, cactus, blue bells, columbine and others more than I can tell. Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education 2011-10-05T02:00:19.377Z Harlequin had recruited a columbine and a shepherdess, and he introduced these ladies as partners for the promised minuet. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z There are climbing roses too, a Japanese quince, and wallflowers and columbines in the garden plot that subtends the dwelling. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z That if clown and pantaloon want to catch columbine, it is hard to see why they don't catch her. Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama 2011-06-29T02:00:22.990Z On the Garden Wall, the connoisseur should seek for the rare, heavenly blue alpine columbine. Glacier National Park [Montana] 2011-06-21T02:00:29.217Z See, all along the ledge at our feet, the buckthorn moss has spread into a crisp carpet; and the wild columbines have grown in a border all around it. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z The harlequin, turning towards the gallery, announced that his lordship had much pleasure in complying with the universal request, and amidst loud applause, the shepherdess took one of Tom’s paws and the columbine the other. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z And yet it is creation and creates, Feeds roses, jonquils, columbines, gardenias, As well as thistles, cockle burrs and thorns. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z The western bay ends in a river of swamp, 104 and all along the north side the wood screens a broken wall of fern-grown cliffs, with quantities of columbines among their crannies. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z There's fennel for you and columbines; there's rue for you, and here's some for me. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z In the open spaces there were thickets of meadowsweet, fireweed, monkshood, and columbine, with saplings and seedlings in between. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Hers is prettier with everything piled up on the stones this way—columbines, ferns, wild ginger, hepaticas.” Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge 2011-02-24T03:01:03.877Z And then into the garden among the sunflowers and hollyhocks and columbine and larkspur and heartsease and the riot of June roses, common enough, yet gay and sweet as the rarest. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z "On the other side the wood," replied the columbine. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z There were spiderworts, there were ranunculi, tiger-lilies, columbines, blood-red potentillas, irises of a brighter violet than a bishop's cassock. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z Of the characters of columbine, pantaloon, and clown, we have no contemporary drawings. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z At the back is a door with the upper half thrown back, and two wide windows through whose open lattices, overgrown with columbine, one can see the fresh country side in the setting sun. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors The name columbine comes from the flower’s obvious resemblance to a group of doves, and its Latin name aquilegia, meaning a collection of eagles, is a nobler form of the same idea. Springtime and Other Essays Look at the lilac and the columbines, and this bowl of wallflowers! A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days The sweet old columbine—Bocconia cordata at Hampton Court—Campanulas as continuous bloomers—The heavenly larkspurs—Christmas roses—The tall and brilliant lobelias—The Chinese-lantern plants—Tufted pansies. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them All about were blooming columbines and the odorous balsam. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway We listen eagerly, clown, pantaloon, harlequin, and columbine vanish to the sound of the pan-pipes and the voice of Punch. English Costume Here and there grew solitary columbines, which Jenny thought were lovely and carried home to Granfa, who called them Blue Men's Caps. Carnival "The harlequin and columbine seemed a little stiff; but that's the hardest of all, I know." International Short Stories English As it will soon, in snowdrop, violet, Windflower and columbine and maiden's tear; Each letter of that pretty alphabet That spells in flowers the pageant of the year. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 There is a cheapness of sentiment about this Jenny, this Islington columbine, but we must not reproach Mr Mackenzie for loving his heroine over-much: too many of his rivals are not loving theirs enough. A Novelist on Novels Grasses, larkspurs, columbines, lilies, hazel bushes, and the great trees form a circle around the fire like thoughtful spectators, gazing and listening with human-like enthusiasm. My First Summer in the Sierra It was a blue columbine, a solitary plant full blown. Carnival In a moment or two harlequin and columbine appeared on the screen and began to caper nimbly, naturally, with the wildest grace. International Short Stories English She folded it up in white violet leaves, like a sweet-scented napkin, and with a horn of honey from the columbines set out again with many thanks and full of hope and courage. Lulu's Library, Volume II One of the herbs distributed by poor Ophelia, in her distraction, is fennel, which she offers either as a cordial or as an emblem of flattery: “There’s fennel for you, and columbines.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare Calm, beautiful, and nearly silent, it glides with stately gestures, a dense growth of the slender two-leaved pine along its banks, and a fringe of willow, purple spirea, sedges, daisies, lilies, and columbines. My First Summer in the Sierra From oak and chaparral to pines and bear clover, silver fir, and nature-made gardens of columbine, red snow plant, and cyclamen we mounted, and then still higher to a silent tamarack country. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making A moment after, they were flower and butterfly, then a jigging donkey; then harlequin and columbine again. International Short Stories English "Where are you?" cried the other fairy, flying up among the columbines; for she could see no opening in the rock, and wondered where the voice came from. Lulu's Library, Volume II The wind that breathes of columbines And bleeding-hearts that crowd the rocks; That shakes the balsam of the pines With music from his flashing locks, Stops at my city door and knocks. Undertones One set would picture an Arthurian legend, and others again were made bright with flowers, lilies, roses, and columbines. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine, and passerine tribes, resort to the fruit-bearing trees. Wanderings in South America Her harlequin and columbine shall dance better this time. International Short Stories English Bud thanked him very much, and went happily on till she came to a party of columbines dancing in the wind. Lulu's Library, Volume II “She wore a frock of frolic green, Might well become a maiden queen, Which seemly was to see; A hood to that so neat and fine, In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.” The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries There is nectar in the columbine, and the bumblebee sometimes gets it by piercing the spur from the outside, as she does with the dicentra. A Year in the Fields And—strange enough for a young man who rides only to exercise his black mare—he never came out of those woods without an armful of columbine or the like. The Story of a New York House In one side was a Colorado amethyst, and the Colorado flower, the columbine, was burned into the gavel by a Colorado girl. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V She was just wondering where she should find some dinner, and here was a delicious feast all ready for her, thanks to the pretty dress which made the columbines think her a flower. Lulu's Library, Volume II Later still in summer we find a rose in the same surprising case, while not far off is a columbine bearing pollen on its spurs instead of its anthers. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Blue’s overdone here too, blue sky, blue mists, blue shadows, blue lakes, blue flowers,––anemones, harebells, columbines and the rest. The Heart of Thunder Mountain T. T. Swinburne, the poet, has written to J. M. Samuels, chief of the Department of Horticulture at the World's Columbian Exposition, proposing the columbine as the Columbian Exposition and national flower. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose The beautiful columbines and crocuses bloom before the snow is all off the ground in the valleys. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 The first solid food Kweek tasted was the black, glossy seed of a columbine, which his mother, busily collecting provender, chanced to drop near him as she hurried to her storehouse. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain I see the lovely garden full of roses, columbines, lilies, pansies, sweet-peas, strawberries just in bloom. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit A little way up the less-used of the two branches there was a glade where columbines grew in extraordinary profusion. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Transplant columbines, monkshood, and all kinds of fibrous rooted perennials. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Her white columbines she calls "granny's mutches;" and indeed they are not unlike those fresh white caps. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland Daisies, orchids, tiger lilies, fringed gentians, wild red roses, mariposas, Rocky Mountain columbines, harebells, and forget-me-nots adorn every space and nook. Wild Life on the Rockies Wind flowers and columbine; orchis sweet as any hyacinth; tall Solomon's seal; spotless bloodroot; and violets—white, yellow, and purple. Say and Seal, Volume II Her eyes, as she did so, fell again upon the bouquet of columbines lying forlorn, their tender faces half buried in the dry 131 grass. The Heart of Thunder Mountain She had finished with the hollyhocks, and now she was bending over a bed of withered columbines. A Bookful of Girls So the tiger-lily and the columbine must be sought in the mountains, the rose and sweetbrier on low ground, the night-shades and the helianthus in the timbered cañons and gulches. Our Italy In midsummer, near most beaver homes one finds columbines, fringed blue gentians, orchids, and lupines blooming, while many of the ponds are green and yellow with pond-lilies. Wild Life on the Rockies And, oh! the lily bell was sweet— Ring, swing, columbine! Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Toward bedtime of the eighth day after that encounter at the glade of the columbines, Philip Haig sat stiffly silent in his armchair, staring into the fire. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Now his agile fingers nipped some tiny, scarce perceivable flower to delight her eye, and now his great hand scooped up whole sheaves of strong-growing columbine, and flung them where her feet must tread. It, and Other Stories I despair of picturing this grand flower to eyes accustomed to the insignificant columbine of the East. A Bird-Lover in the West Eat cowslips fine, Red columbine— Come, butter, come! Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. A fairy lived in a lily bell— Ring, sing, columbine! Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Though Marion, in the first two days of Robert’s visit, guided him, in the big automobile, everywhere except beyond the Ridge and to the glade of the columbines, she had never a glimpse of Philip. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Near the door there are almost always a few cabbage-rose trees, and under the windows grow wall-flowers and hollyhocks, sweet peas, columbine, and sometimes the graceful lilies of the valley. The Toilers of the Field Like torches lit for carnival, The fiery lilies straight and tall Burn where the deepest shadow is; Still dance the columbines cliff-hung, And like a broidered veil outflung The many-blossomed clematis. A Bird-Lover in the West Then later came crimson campion and eyebright, dog roses and honeysuckles, columbine and centaury, grasses of all kinds, and harebell, and a multitude impossible to name; though the very naming is pleasant. The Old Helmet, Volume II The fairy caught a butterfly— Swing, cling, columbine! Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Now she was in search of the old hopes that she had once revelled in, while she gathered armloads of columbines, and imagined they were for Philip. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Fig. 47., which is a block-plan of a leaf of columbine, without its minor divisions on the edges, will illustrate the principle clearly. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing They had, it is true, no columbine, but a little thing like that did not trouble the irrepressible Handy. A Pirate of Parts They were starting together on the long, long trail, and the poor young things could vision it only as strewn with sunbathed columbines and goldenrods. The Fighting Edge She mounted on her painted steed— Ring, cling, columbine! Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly He bore a great bouquet of columbines, their stems wrapped in damp moss and leaves and tied securely with a string. The Heart of Thunder Mountain How often would she flowers twine, How often garlands make, Of cowslips and of columbine, And all for Corin's sake! Tudor and Stuart Love Songs The following varieties are suggested for special observation and study: hepatica, violet, anemone, columbine, Indian turnip, marsh marigold. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Still the children stared at him—from his dark blue cap, like a big columbine flower, to his bare, hairy feet. Puck of Pook’s Hill Oh, fairy sweet! come back once more— Ring, swing, columbine! Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Once she went to the glade of the columbines. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Hood, having become absorbed in a portfolio of pen-and-ink sketches of clowns, harlequins, and columbines, subjects in which the owner of the studio apparently specialized, paid no heed to the suggestion. The Madness of May She set herself, therefore, to gathering violets and wood-anemones, and some scarlet columbines that she found growing in the crevices of a high rock. The Scarlet Letter The columbine is the graceful little flower we so often hear called honeysuckle. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide In using the word "columbine" Shakespeare gives the double meaning of a flower and also a bird. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 The columbines were gone; only a brave, pale blossom here and there lingered pathetically in a waste of dried and drooping stems. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Put up the opera-glass and scan the stage, On crimson piles luxuriantly recline, And see the premature decay of age Transformed to youth, a lovely columbine! The Minstrel A Collection of Poems Should the roses of the pattern be red or pink? and the columbines blue or purple? The Development of Embroidery in America It is perfectly safe for the columbine to unfold its wrapper and the cuckoo-pint to toll its bell in the presence of a maiden so old. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide What an effective screen those brakes and columbines make! At the Little Brown House Trees become fewer and flowers more numerous; yellow colt's-foot, dandelions, gentians, Michaelmas daisies, columbines, centaurias, anemones, and edelweiss grow in profusion. Birds of the Indian Hills With violets and anemones and columbines the little girl had decorated her hair. Tales of Fantasy and Fact Familiar illustrations of this are afforded in the case of anemones, columbines, fuchsias, and other plants. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Her lips were of that deep intensest red The cherry, red rose, and columbine wear. Stories in Verse And buttercups are coming, And scarlet columbine; And in the sunny meadows The dandelions shine. The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children She was unconquerably provincial, entirely democratic, as uncultured as her native columbine. The Highgrader She was busy with her columbines, a large folio of which lay on a table near by. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book The lily nods in the wind, the columbine hangs its bell, there the snowdrop first appears and the hip-rose shows her richest blossoms. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Of Garden Flowers.—The rose, lily, larkspur, peony, poppies, columbine, chrysanthemum, tulip, Christmas rose, Japanese anemone. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship The columbine in tawny often taken, Is then ascrib'd to such as are forsaken; Flora's choice buttons of a russet dye Is hope even in the depth of misery. Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) Some lovely girls looking crisp as columbines or plains' poppies looked at him from the doors of the parlor cars. The Eagle's Heart At her left hand was a pile of square cards with scalloped edges, upon which the columbines were to be affixed; at her right was a small glass window-pane smeared with what she called "stickum." Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Next to those attractions came the circus, outside of which, on a raised platform, stood harlequin, clown, and columbine, all in a row, and in full dress. Penelope and the Others Story of Five Country Children Pansies, columbines, white-fringed pinks, and sweet-peas all mixed up together, and yet keeping a certain order and not allowed to intrude upon each other. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May She was as pale, as fragile, and as lovely as the mountain columbine. The Spirit of Sweetwater I know where the purple geranium grows; where the bright scarlet columbine blushes, and where the pale wax plant hides under its glossy green leaf. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends How exquisite they were, those delicate ghosts of flowers;—the regal columbine, the graceful gilia, coreopsis gleaming golden, anemones, pale and soft. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book The following lists of flowers for borders may be suggestive: Perennials.—Bleeding-heart, carnations, chrysanthemums, columbine, coreopsis, dahlias, gaillardias, golden glow, iris, larkspur, oriental poppies, peonies, phlox, pinks, platycodon, snapdragon. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools I asked, thrusting my bunch of columbines upon her with a blush. The Adventures of Harry Revel She gathered her books together and placed them in a satchel of crimson broadcloth, which she had just embroidered, with bright German wools, in wreaths of spotted daisies and wild columbines. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems And set it round with celandine, And nodding heads of columbine!— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 I longed to see the pantomime, having heard much from my cousins and from Leo of its delights—and of the harlequin, columbine, and clown. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Almost you may say that she raced across the stream and clutched at a handful of the columbines. The Mayor of Troy I am afraid Lois thought longingly, all through the silence on a May Sunday, of the nosegay of columbines she meant to gather afterwards. A Book of Quaker Saints Such marvels of flowers as we descended, such wild tiger-lilies and columbines and Mariposa lilies! Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains We'll set it round with celandine, And nodding heads of columbine! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Thou comest not when violets lean O’er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o’er the ground-bird’s hidden nest. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 This sentiment of his also recalls his lines: "A woodland walk, A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, A wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds." The Last Harvest In May the burial-ground is all singing and tinkling silently with fairy spires of columbines. A Book of Quaker Saints "And I will be a columbine!" said another; and saying the spell over each other they became each the flower they had named. The Field of Clover Some have even given a classic origin to our pantomime, considering harlequin to be Mercury, the clown Momus, pantaloon Charon, and columbine Psyche. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Sweeping curves like sculptured arms bearing thickly clustered hemispheres of purplish white are seen on the rocky slope where the nine-bark grows above the lingering columbines. Some Spring Days in Iowa Since coming to Waltham I have started the seeds of the poppy, larkspur, columbine and gaillardia in a grove near the house, where they are easily kept moist. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Even white columbine, rarest of all, has been found in that magic valley. A Book of Quaker Saints The lawns within the acacia-hedged compartments were dazzling with campanulas, harebells, rose campions, and crimson and yellow columbine, or gleamed with the pale turquoise of forget-me-nots. Russian Rambles He saw an active little match girl trip across the street, and solicit alms in a very winning and even graceful manner-- "that shall be my columbine," said he:--and she was so. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three On the upper cover is a spray of columbine, the petals of which, pink and blue, are each worked separately in needlepoint lace stitch, and afterwards tacked on to a central rib. English Embroidered Bookbindings Rocky Mountain columbine against the willow hedge, with perennial candytuft as edging. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 On the south slope the hepaticas have gone and the columbines show a trace of red blood, while on the north, one is in perfection and the other only as yet making leaves. The Garden, You, and I The purple was the shade of columbine, and very becoming to Charlotte. Pembroke A Novel One boy, about fourteen, almost divided the plaudits of the house with the fair nymph just mentioned--who, during the evening, had equally shone as a goddess, a queen, a fairy, and a columbine. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three In the clefts of the rocks, generally far above our reach, the bright red columbines stood in groups, drooping their graceful heads. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse "To find columbines for church decorations," she said with an answering smile. The Sheriff's Son The sun shot arrows of gold through the pines down upon us and we gathered our arms full of columbines. Letters of a Woman Homesteader They passed some cottages with pretty gardens in front; they stopped for a second to look at the old-fashioned columbine and monkshood, the none-so-pretty, the yellow and crimson wall-flower, the peony roses. Prince Fortunatus And when I did them, a columbine looked as stiff as a dog-daisy. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men She stops to pick some columbines and soliloquizes. Love Conquers All Beulah had expected to find her columbines in a gulch back of Big Flat Top, but the flowers were just past their prime here. The Sheriff's Son Here and there rose a lonely spike of yucca, and in the little ravines to right and left grew in the crevices of the rocks clumps of superb straw-colored columbines four feet high. Clover The girls began a game of "I spy" behind the great rock where the columbines clambered in the spring, and spread their blossoms like butterflies poised on an airy stem. The Little Colonel's House Party Here are all our harlequins and columbines of the spoken and written drama. The Ragged Edge The general beauty of flowers is usually not greatly marred by the perforations except in a few cases, as when the spurs of columbines and corollas of trumpet creepers are much torn, which frequently happens. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Of course, she did not have to get columbines for the preaching service. The Sheriff's Son "See what your brother picked for me," cried Poppy, riding alongside, and exhibiting a great sheaf of columbine tied to the pommel of her saddle. Clover And buttercups are coming, And scarlet columbine, And in the sunny meadows The dandelions shine. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader Deb had before her a parade of morning-glories, purple and white, pink and blue, while Miranda sat in a ring of marigolds and red columbines. Lewis Rand In days that are sunny He's getting his honey; In days that are cloudy He's making his wax: On pinks and on lilies, And gay daffodillies, And columbine blossoms, He levies a tax! McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader Why not ride over to Del Oro Creek, where the season was later and the columbines would be just coming on? The Sheriff's Son The red blooms of the columbine being in the way, he took up the bunch and tossed it out of the window. Audrey Tommy and Nick stopped to speak to a columbine who hovered between the pavement and the threshold of the house. The Lion's Share "Do you name them?" asked Rand, poising a columbine upon the back of his hand. Lewis Rand Now and then a tall, green stalk of the columbine could be seen, and occasionally a wooly circle of bracts on the stem of a late anemone. Buffalo Roost "Strange how it seems good to live--when I look at a columbine--or watch a beaver at his work--or listen to the bugle of an elk!" mused Bent Wade. The Mysterious Rider Painter's brush, harebell, speedwell, golden-brown gaillardias, silvery hawkweed, columbines yellow and blue, heaths, and lush grasses--Elizabeth sank down among them in speechless joy. Lady Merton, Colonist One blue columbine close by mourned alone for the garden. Unhappy Far-Off Things I love to dash the crystal dews From floral shapes of varied hues, And interweave the modest white Of columbine in garlands bright. Mountain idylls, and Other Poems There, beneath an arch of spray, three dark-eyed maidens stood; garlanded with columbines, their nectaries nodding like jesters' bells; and robed in vestments blue. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Seventeen years ago miners working a claim of Belllounds's in the mountains above Middle Park had found a child asleep in the columbines along the trail. The Mysterious Rider Anderson gathered handfuls of columbine and vetch, of harebell and heath, and filled her lap with them, till she gently stopped him. Lady Merton, Colonist Branches of rose break up through the myriad nettles, but only to be seized and choked by columbine. Unhappy Far-Off Things The nectaries are more elongated than the garden columbines, and form a sort of mural crown, surmounted with little balls at the tips. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America As you take up a few, a columbine, or a hepatica, be sure to take with the roots some of the plant's own soil, which must be packed about it when replanted. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Clusters of columbines waved their graceful, sweet, pale-blue flowers that Wade felt a joy in seeing. The Mysterious Rider Roses which had degenerated into little better than wild ones, showed late red and pink blooms, honeysuckle and columbines flowered, and foxgloves raised their graceful heads. Halcyone Hiding away in quiet corners are the blue-eyed grass, and a wild purple hyacinth, the scarlet columbine swinging its golden tassels, shy blue larkspur, a small yellow sunflower, and wild pink roses. Stories of California The scarlet columbine is another of my favourite flowers; it is bright red, with yellow linings to the tubes. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Now, just because the columbine has little soil, it does not signify that it is indifferent to the soil conditions. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Out in the aspen groves, where the grass was turning gold, the columbines blew gracefully in the wind, nodding and swaying. The Mysterious Rider O we remember forget-me-not pale, and white columbine You wreathed for my hair; because we remember this cannot be. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell! Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. The feathered columbine delights in moist open swamps, and the banks of rivulets; it grows to the height of three, and even four and five feet, and is very ornamental. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Hepatica, columbines, anenome, bellflower, butterfly weed, turtle head and aster represent wild flowers which bloom from March through October. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. The most exquisite and finest of these columbines hid in the shaded nooks, star-sweet in the silent gloom of the woods. The Mysterious Rider Wrigley adds to our collection the green-penciled flowers of the grass of Parnassus, with wild flax, and both pink and purple columbines already forming seed. The New North We were still confabbing over the letter, and explaining bits to Greg, who was hopelessly mystified, when Mother came out to transplant some columbine that had wandered into the lawn. Us and the Bottleman Not where the blue wreaths of the star-flower shine, Nor lingered it in the airy bells Of the graceful columbine. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony Candytuft, dwarf phlox, stonecrop, morning glory, saxifrage, bleeding heart, rock cress, myrtle, thrift, columbine, bell flower, and moss pink. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Wade's last few whispered words to Moore had been interpreted that the hunter desired to be buried among the columbines in the aspen grove on the slope above Sage Valley. The Mysterious Rider She gives us the wild-flowers by their actual names,—snowdrop, primrose, columbine, iris, scabious. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold By faint sweet signs my soul divines, Dear heart, at dawning you came this way, By the jangled bells of the columbines, And the ruffled gold of the gorses gay. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland A moment after they were flower and butterfly, then a jigging donkey, then harlequin and columbine again. The Delectable Duchy Standing below a ledge and looking up, one sees nestled here and there in rocky crevices one plant or more of columbine. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. "Buster, I was only handin' you a bunch of flowers--some columbines, as your taste runs," replied Wade, contemptuously. The Mysterious Rider Here I found my first columbine, the beautiful flower that is the emblem of Colorado. Tales of lonely trails And the ivy veined and glossy Was enwrought with eglantine; And the wild hop fibred closely, And the large-leaved columbine, Arch of door and window mullion, did right sylvanly entwine. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous They shall dance better this time, her harlequin and columbine. The Delectable Duchy Then comes April bearing in its arms the beautiful columbine, the tiny bluets and wild geranium. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. A faint, cool breeze strayed through the aspens, rustling the leaves whisperingly, and the slender columbines, gleaming pale in the twilight, lifted their sweet faces. The Mysterious Rider The gentle wind just lifts the head Of many a columbine; And, taken from their rocky bed, They in our wreaths shall twine. Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories I bore on this June day a sheaf of the white columbine,--one single sheaf, one single root; but it was almost more than I could carry. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous The harlequin and columbine seemed a little jerky. The Delectable Duchy The columbine is another plant that is quite likely to be found in rocky places. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Yes, they are, and so is the columbine. Ethel Morton's Enterprise Among all the Madonnas ever painted his picture of Mary with the espalier of white roses, and another where she holds the infant Christ to pluck a purple columbine, distinguish themselves by this engaging spontaneity. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Without speaking she had run ahead to pick the white and blue columbines and pink roses. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West In a moment or two harlequin and columbine appeared on the screen, and began to caper nimbly, naturally, with the airiest graces. The Delectable Duchy The little valley was shut in on the south and east by rocky hills, patched with the immortal green of cedars and gay with clambering columbines. Not Pretty, but Precious So they dug up but a comparatively small number of the hepaticas, nor did they take many of the columbines nodding from a cleft in the piled-up rocks. Ethel Morton's Enterprise Hesperis, columbine, and geranium contrasted their floral colours with the deep green of the young grass. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Yet within its limits there are brooks and marshes and copses and woodlands,—rocks over which the wild columbine hangs its fuchsia-like pendants, and dells where nestle the earliest and sweetest of the wood-flowerets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 There were clefts in the rocks of the Indian Cellar where, when every one else failed, he could find harebells and columbines. The Village Watch-Tower And the columbine, With its cap and bells, for folly! Ponkapog Papers "I feel as if those columbines were birds that had perched on those rocks just for a minute and were going to fly away, and I didn't want to disturb them before they flitted." Ethel Morton's Enterprise Another lake dweller that comes down to the ploughed lands is the red columbine. The Land of Little Rain She set herself, therefore, to gathering violets and wood-anemones, and some scarlet columbines that she found growing in the crevice of a high rock. The Scarlet Letter Why couldn't we have a proper old English pantomime—clown, columbine, and so on. The Innocence of Father Brown Iris and white lilies rose out of the grass in sheaves, and the green alcoves filled themselves with amazing armies of the blue and white flower lances of tall delphiniums or columbines or campanulas. The Secret Garden "It is called 'columbine' because the spurs look a little like doves around a drinking fountain, and the Latin word for dove is 'columba," said Dorothy. Ethel Morton's Enterprise He planted harebells; violets, blue, white, and yellow; wild geranium, cardinal-flower, columbine, pink snake's mouth, buttercups, painted trilliums, and orchis. Freckles A little way in the woods they could see the blue columbines and the mountain phlox, pink and red. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation "He is harlequin to your columbine," said Crook. The Innocence of Father Brown Every locality yields its wild asters, golden-rods, columbines, iris, trilliums, lilies, anemones, pentstemons, mints, sunflowers, or other plants; and many of these also make good subjects for the home grounds. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) "Saxifrage isn't; Helen told me the name meant 'rock-breaker,' because some kinds grow in the clefts of rocks the way the columbines do." Ethel Morton's Enterprise Give me a cottager's plot of sweet-williams and columbine instead of the floral paragon evolved for the gratification of the curious! In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" You can't make the columbine flowers nod in January, nor make the cuckoo sing in England at Christmas. England, My England It will be noticed that our columbine's funnel-shaped tubes contract just below the point where the nectar is secreted—doubtless to protect it from small bees. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing To this class belong most of the fruit trees and ornamental trees and shrubs; also hardy herbs, as columbines, peonies, lilies, bleeding-hearts, and the like. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) "Don't forget the yellow columbines," Dorothy reminded them, "and the yellow snapdragons." Ethel Morton's Enterprise Already we have the rhodora and the columbine, which you have probably found. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis Tall white and purple columbines, and the butt-end of the old Hampshire cottage that crouched near the earth amid flowers, blossoming in the bit of shaggy wildness round about. England, My England Probably even the small bees, collecting pollen only, help carry some from flower to flower; but perhaps the largest bumblebees, and certainly the humming bird, must be regarded as the columbine's legitimate benefactors. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing The many species of owls, too, have not been noticed; and no mention made of the columbine tribe. Wanderings in South America Or in the valley's vistaed glow, Past rocks of terraced trumpet vines, Shall I behold her coming slow, Sweet May, among the columbines? Poems And through the tangle of what once must have been a splendid orchard, they caught a glimpse of white walls overgrown with a mad profusion of wild roses, wisterias and columbines. Darkness and Dawn There is nectar in the columbine, and the bumblebee sometimes gets it by piercing the spur from the outside as she does with dicentra. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton These garden-patches are full of gay colors of gentian, erigeron, anemone, larkspur, and columbine, and are enlivened with happy birds and bees and marmots. Travels in Alaska The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit- bearing trees. Wanderings in South America The wind that breathes of columbines And celandines that crowd the rocks; That shakes the balsam of the pines With laughter from his airy locks, Stops at my city door and knocks. Poems The carpels of buttercups and columbines, the cells in the capsules of cotton and many other plants are variable in number. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Here is a characteristic touch:— "A woodland walk A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, A wild rose, or rock-loving columbine, Salve my worst wounds." The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton The lower are mostly alder bushes and the topmost a lavish profusion of flowering plants, chiefly cassiope, vaccinium, pyrola, erigeron, gentiana, campanula, anemone, larkspur, and columbine, with a few grasses and ferns. Travels in Alaska Some polyanthus and foxglove, Sea-pinks, and columbine, Sweet-scented tulips, which I love, Whose beauty has e'en power to move A heart less fond than mine. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects On the borders of little streams larger plants flourish--lupines, daisies, asters, goldenrods, hairbell, mountain columbine, potentilla, astragalus and a few gentians; with charming heathworts--bryanthus, cassiope, kalmia, vaccinium in boulder-fringing rings or bank covers. The Yosemite Among them I found only one inconstant variety, the white form of the yellow columbine, Aquilegia chrysantha. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation That "rock-loving columbine" is better than Bryant's "columbines, in purple dressed," as our flower is not purple, but yellow and scarlet. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton She was as white as the mountain columbine. Hidden Creek By the multiplication of the nectaries and exclusion of the petals; as in columbine. 3d. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Alternate clouds and sunshine overhead, the lights and shadows over the trees, the fields—radiant with gentians, oxslips, columbine, polygaloe, and asphodel—losing none of their charm. Twixt France and Spain The ground fell away in a steep ravine, just in front of the house, and pink wild roses and columbine hung in profusion over the spring which gushed out of the bank. The Black Creek Stopping-House And the columbines bravely As sentinels stand On the look-out with all their Red trumpets in hand. Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study She was going through an open glade of aspens and the ground was white with columbine, enormous flowers snowy and crisp as though freshly starched by fairy laundresses. Hidden Creek Deep fringes of wild columbine fell in fluffy sprays from the higher banks as the boat drifted along the other side. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Flowers in full bloom adorned their margins, lilies ten feet high, larkspur, columbines, and luxuriant ferns, leaning and overarching in lavish abundance, while a noble old Live Oak spread its rugged arms over all. The Mountains of California Across the creek from Thomas Shouldice's little house, Indian pipes and columbine reddened the edge of the poplar grove, from the lowest branches of which morning-glories, white and pink and purple, hung in graceful profusion. The Black Creek Stopping-House And buttercups are coming, And scarlet columbine, And in the sunny meadows The dandelions shine. Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study Mother took her to the cold spring, and they did not return till just at dark, loaded with airy anemones and blue violets and a few columbines. Memories of Hawthorne All the old-fashioned flowers bloomed there; little pink cabbage roses, Turks-caps, lilies, lupins, and monkshood and columbines. Esther : a book for girls The narcissus in particular was growing around everywhere, together with real wild flowers like the painted columbine and star of Bethlehem. Letters to His Children Then a little later came the violets, blue and white, anemones, sweet- william, columbine and saxifrage. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Some brought handfuls of columbine from rocky nooks, and others the purple trillium, that is near of kin to Burroughs's white "wake-robin." Nature's Serial Story He gave mother some columbines, and after a while said, "I must make your bunch like Mrs. Peabody's, my dear," and so put some more into Miss Hawthorne's hand. Memories of Hawthorne She ware a frock of frolic greenMight well become a maiden queen, Which seemly was to see;A hood to that so neat and fine,In colour like the columbine, Inwrought full featously. Playful Poems Well, out they go on the road again, with him as the clown, Ruby as the columbine, Casey as harlequin and a guy named Smith as pantaloon. The Rose in the Ring Here had been wood-sorrel, and a carpet of the white trillium; and now there was adder's tongue, quaint and saucy, and columbine, and the pale dusty corydalis. Love's Pilgrimage His 'Bumble Bee' was just lovely; with the grass and columbines and the yellow breeches of the bee. A Garland for Girls My husband and I have gathered all these columbines since dinner, on the bank of the river, two fields off from the battle-ground. Memories of Hawthorne O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtledoves dwell! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 I remember the columbine and the harlequin and the pantaloon in Drury Lane one boxing week when I was in London with my grandfather. The Rose in the Ring Among the rocks, hairballs have their tiny five-parted chests; and the columbine, its standing group of narrow brown sacks, which show, if we open them, hundreds of tiny seeds. The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children Under the trees are planted calceolarias, gebara, Shasta daisies, potentilla, columbine, and many other showy flowers. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition Groups of young oaks and an occasional bay or madrone tree broke up any suggestion of formal arrangement, and there were still wild columbine and mission bells in the shady places. The Story of Julia Page Sunshine flooded buttercups and poppies on the grassy slopes, and where there was shade, under the oaks, "Mission bells" and scarlet columbine and cream and lavender iris were massed together. Saturday's Child Clowns, columbines and harlequins with all their 'make-up' on, could not have seemed more out of place than these socially popular persons in the historic house of her ancestors. God's Good Man Montbretia, Japanese sunflower, larkspur, columbine and gourds all have their time and place and opportunity in this San Francisco garden. Vignettes of San Francisco Trees and trailers drooped over the path, ferns and lilies bloomed in moist recesses, and among myriads of flowers a large blue and cream columbine was conspicuous by its beauty and exquisite odour. Among the Tibetans Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. Wake-Robin Be very shy of double flowers; choose the old columbine where the clustering doves are unmistakable and distinct, not the double one, where they run into mere tatters. Hopes and Fears for Art Or perhaps he would go with Laura Hawkins to gather wild columbine on the high cliff above the river, known as Lover's Leap. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Tufts of wild parsley and columbine filled the cracks between the flagged footways, and the well in the middle of the courtyard was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop. The Gadfly And where the flowers had been, the violets and the wind-flowers and the clematis and the columbine and all the ferns and flowering shrubs, there lay the snow. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills There were clefts in the high rocks by the river side where, when every one else failed, he could find harebells and columbines. A Village Stradivarius She wore a frock of frolic green Might well become a maiden queen, Which seemly was to see; A hood to that so neat and fine, In color like the columbine, Ywrought full featously. Complete Essays Probably even the small bees, collecting pollen only, help carry some from flower to flower but perhaps the largest bumblebees, and certainly the hummingbird, must be regarded as the columbine's legitimate benefactors. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors A few clowns, harlequins, and acrobats, a circus-rider jumping through hoops, the painted columbine, and the hunchback performing various dull and foolish antics, represented the entire force of the company. The Gadfly From many an oozy nook the dainty clematis and columbine shook out their bells, and, lower down, from beds of many-colored moss the late wind-flower and maiden-hair and tiny violet lifted up brave, sweet faces. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills I wish I knew where her grave is that I might lay upon it a bunch of flowers, such as she knew and liked—sweet-william, and phlox, and larkspur, and wild columbine. Back Home O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell? The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 Very rarely is the columbine white, and then its name, derived from words meaning two doves, does not seem wholly misapplied. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors I mean—— Of course the man himself was quite indifferent; no doubt, it is to him just a way of getting a living, like the circus-rider's way or the columbine's. The Gadfly The gay columbine rooted herself among the bleak rocks, and laughed and nodded in the face of the east wind, coquettishly wasting the show of her finery on the frowning air. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) You'd want this young lady here to give up dressing like a stage columbine in the evening and like a fashionable columbine in the morning. You Never Can Tell Indian paintbrush, so brightly carmine in color, lent touch of fire to the green banks, and under the oaks, in cool dark nooks where mossy bowlders lined the stream, there were stately nodding yellow columbines. The Call of the Canyon It will be noticed that our columbine's funnel-shaped tubes contract just below the point where the nectar is secreted - doubtless to protect it from small bees. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors And later, when Power to Beauty was wed, Did some delicate fairy embroider thy bed With the fragile valerian and wild columbine? Lucile Patty was wreathed with columbines and decked with some turkey feathers that she had put in her basket as too pretty to throw away. Story of Waitstill Baxter The columbine's petticoats are the epitome of a harvest field, golden orange and poppy crimson, with a tiny velvet jacket for the poppy stamens. You Never Can Tell The columbines, harebells, and fringed gentians would have been just as cosy and secluded places to live in as the Irish foxgloves, which are simply running over with fairies. Penelope's Irish Experiences Among the wild flowers, only the columbine, with an almost parallel blooming season, rivals the painted cup for the bird's beneficent attentions. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The giant poppies I had planted out in them in April have either died off or remained quite small, and so have the columbines; here and there a delphinium droops unwillingly, and that is all. Elizabeth and Her German Garden "It looks all right on the columbines in the Indian Cellar," replied Patty, turning and twisting the hat on her head. Story of Waitstill Baxter Plainly I cannot glose; Ye be, as I divine, The pretty primrose, The goodly columbine. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse That long row is half peonies and half bleeding-hearts, and I have a bed of columbines under a window on the other side of the house. Lavender and Old Lace Hummingbirds, partial to red flowers, fertilize the wild columbine, but let this one alone. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Vegetation was rank, and the dogtooth violet, honeysuckle, blue-bell, and columbine were in blossom. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 Her white columbines she calls 'granny's mutches'; and indeed they are not unlike those fresh white caps. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Harebells and lupines, wild-pea vines and columbines, tiny, gnome-faced pansies, violets, and the daintier flowering grasses lined the way with odorous loveliness. Cabin Fever You tell me that the peonies need spraying, That the columbines have overrun all bounds, That the pyrus japonica should be cut back and rounded. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets |
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