英语词汇“convolvulus”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

As a humped convolvulus rearing its dragon’s head from an icy lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Great stands of nettles and strange plants flourish: nightshade, poisonous legumes, convolvulus, digitalis, Afghan poppies, cannabis, aphrodisiacs, psychotropic plants. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z

Sustainability is, of course, still in, but over the last five years it's become strangely entwined with the convolvulus of "growth". The Trojan horse 2013-11-29T16:10:11Z

On either side the jungle rose to the height of about two hundred feet--a tangled mass of vegetation, of creepers, vines, convolvuli, so densely interwoven as to give the effect of endless walls. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z

By the wayside the convolvulus was opening its big pink cups. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z

Here was a spot of red, there a dash of orange; at intervals the pale yellow flowers of climbing gourds and the mauve blossoms of convolvuli peeped from the wall of vivid green. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z

She whirled round on one foot, and her gown seemed like a big convolvulus; and after this revolution she stopped in front of me, laughing and clapping her hands. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z

Creeping convolvuli and others have made use of the slender lianas and hanging air-roots as ladders to climb by. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z

Here the “wild morning-glory,” the tiny fields convolvulus, hides perilously in the mowing; white clover and yellow five-finger are spread; the grassflower holds up its single jewel. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z

Emily found a smear of blood on a beautiful trail of yellow convolvulus. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z

Although hidden from us, we know there are plenty of roots of the wild convolvulus running under the ground there; so with the evil thoughts of our hearts. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z

His garden was a jungle of old-fashioned flowers, golden-rod, sweet-william, convolvulus, and rose of Sharon; figs and apricots ripened on his walls, and the house was covered with roses, honeysuckle, white clematis, and blue ceanothus. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z

His way led up a narrow and steep track, hedged in with thorns over which the purple convolvulus twined in a confused network. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z

She breathes upon the wild convolvulus that trails among the grass, and it twists up its silken blossoms till they look like little wisps of calico, pink and white. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z

Then I turned and dragged a trail of golden-leaved convolvulus from the hedge, and I twisted it into a coronet for her. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z

They are as grasping as a convolvulus for the water. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z

The girl wore a marine blue dress with white lace trimmings, and she had on her head a straw hat with a wreath of red convolvulus. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z

Here were feathery palms, there a cluster of small trees like hazels; all about, the ground was carpeted with masses of convolvulus and creeping plants innumerable, and the air was heavy with mingled scents. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z

In the rocky dells there are several kinds of convolvulus of very rich florescence. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z

The dogwood berries stood jauntily scarlet on the hedge-tops, the bunched scarlet and green berries of the convolvulus and bryony hung amid golden trails, the blackberries dropped ungathered. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z

A convolvulus had climbed to the sundial, wrapping it round and round, and had laid its bold white trumpet flowers on the leaded disk itself. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z

But have they not their rivals in the climbing honeysuckle and in the bright-eyed creeping convolvulus? The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z

The outside of our bungalow is covered with purple convolvulus, and the verandah goes practically all round it. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z

Lovely flowering climbers were planted, quick growing ones, wild convolvulus and clematis, with a few roses, and before the summer was half done all the walls were covered with a wealth of floral beauty. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z

The second picture represents, on a marble plinth in a niche, a melon, a pear, and a bunch of black grapes with roses, convolvuluses, poppies, and other flowers. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z

When you were vexed with me the other day for tiring myself by tearing the convolvulus off that little orange tree, it was because I could not bear to see it choked. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z

The wild convolvulus, with its great white bell-like blossoms, that so often stars the hedgerows with a singular beauty, twines always to meet the sun. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z

It was a beautiful spot; in the deep green forest convolvuli and other flowering creepers had formed themselves into fantastic arches, more lovely than art could fabricate. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z

The garden, too, was well planted, and all along the wire fence, entirely covering it, were wild convolvuluses. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z

A tree-trunk surrounded by red and white roses, poppies, convolvuluses, etc., and upon the stony ground, covered with moss and mushrooms, innumerable lizards, toads, snails, and various insects swarm. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z

The little pink convolvulus creeping in the thin grass made way for them. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z

In geranium the cotyledons are twisted and doubled; in convolvulus they are corrugated; and in the potato and in Bunias, they are spiral,—the same terms being applied as to the foliage leaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z

Do you suppose their brows were wreathed with the honeysuckle’s second autumn bloom, with streaked convolvulus and bronzed ears of wheat? Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z

In the season the large white bell-like flowers of the convolvulus will climb over the hawthorn, and the lesser striped kind will creep along the ground. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

Its pendant, Flowers, is an exquisite picture of a full-blown rose and a rosebud, a pink and a convolvulus, placed on a marble console. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z

Now and again a tiny bright-coloured bird would flash across the path, now and again a huge trail of giant convolvulus, blue as the sky, would bar our progress. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z

"You have such faith in my gods," he went on, when he could get her away from the convolvulus, "such a bravery of belief, such a dear bravery of belief." The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z

The fly-wheel whirled about, beating the air to musical resonance; the steel sinew of Behemoth stretched across the stubble, dragging the shares remorselessly through tender roots of pimpernel and creeping convolvulus. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z

A last convolvulus, too, has a single pink-streaked bell, though the bough to which it holds is already partly bare of leaves. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

Every traditional pattern—wave, lotus, daisy, convolvulus, honeysuckle, "Sacred Horn" or tree of life; every animal form, or bird, fish or reptile, has been traced to its source, and its symbolism laid bare. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z

We talked irrelevancies for a moment more—the passion of the convolvulus moth for petunias, and the other flowers the different sorts of moths and butterflies preferred. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z

Poppy's muslin gown was of a colour that made her look like a freshly-plucked spray of lilac, and she wore a wide white hat, trimmed with convolvulus. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z

Travellers are especially struck with the beauty of some of the wild flowers, more especially with the lilies and convolvuluses; and European greenhouses have been enriched by several Formosan orchids and other ornamental plants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z

Her hand was in mine; her eyes as they laughed up at me were of the color of the blue convolvulus. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z

The wind soon converted it into something like a convolvulus, so that she was fain once more to seek shelter inside the conveyance, which now lay pensively over on one side, against a muddy bank. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z

Deep banks covered with fine grass, beautiful acacias, and festoons of lilac-colored convolvuli stretched, along on either side of the stream. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z

But nothing more; I hold my breath And strain my eager eye; A yellow crown, two eyes of brown, And pink convolvuli! The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z

But over the seaward walls of villa and ch�teau peep valerian and fig, and the path is coral-sprinkled with pimpernel and enamelled with convolvulus and borage and the hosts of smaller flowers. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z

Class I. Campaniformes, with a regular corolla, of one piece, and resembling a bell; as the convolvulus. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History

I think it would be as well to drive it right in like this—it will save further trouble; this wild convolvulus takes such a strong hold of the soil.” The Parson O' Dumford

The caterpillar feeds on the convolvulus in May. Butterflies and Moths (British)

The golden curls, the elfish laugh, Rose cheeks and glittering eye Are glories, too, like bells of blue And red convolvuli. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z

But she flicked his promise aside as she flicked the convolvulus with her nail. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z

But the wild asters and the long convolvulus vines were choking the blossomless pinks and the sweet-williams and the few shy English flowers that were left. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests

Down there broadleaved convolvuli and creepers had formed a natural bower above a projecting block of stone, in which even at high noon one could sit almost in the dark. The Wish A Novel

In summer, no doubt, she worked at the open window, half veiled by a verdant curtain of sweet peas, roses, nasturtiums, and blue and white convolvulus. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6

The air is sweet and fresh as dewdrops in convolvuli. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z

There was a warm dry earth-wall with heath and thyme and rest-harrow and convolvulus growing on it, and there we sat down. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z

The plant which thus by its corruption gave birth to the human species was the convolvulus. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II

Through them I could conjure a vision of her bronzed coronal and Aubrey's massive muscularity, and could picture her glowing arms around his neck—a convolvulus entwining a Gothic column. Love's Usuries

And beneath, for contrast, the brilliance of convolvuli and granadillas opposed the tender green. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes

A roguish laugh, a rustling vine, I turn my eager eye; Big drops of dew in bells of blue And red convolvuli. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z

Orchids and lovely lichens clung to the boughs, while huge masses of buff, violet, pink and brilliant yellow convolvuli hung suspended in festoons, brightening the gloom which pervaded this underworld of the jungle. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War

Grey daylight came streaming between the leaves, the purple convolvuli opened their flowers, and the parrots and wild pigeons began to awake among the branches. The Ruined Cities of Zululand

Red and yellow flowers grew amongst the ruins, and the hedges were covered with wild hops and blooming convolvulus. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series

But in his catalogue of achievements I find new lilies, new conifers, fuchsias, agaves, cacti, begonias, saxifrage, dahlias, convolvuli, tropaeolums, tacsonias—a multitude, in fact, beyond reckoning. The Woodlands Orchids

Round her majestic figure, a slight girl of sixteen twined her arms, clinging to her like the gentle convolvulus to the stately pine. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1

There is also the large pearl-hued convolvulus which blossoms only at night, known in Ceylon as "the moon flower," and conspicuous through the dimness by its radiant whiteness. The Pearl of India

Its banks were covered with brush, and the masses of convolvuli almost hid it in places. The Ruined Cities of Zululand

These are the days of the convolvulus, of ripening berry, and dropping nut. The Hills and the Vale

But, before she comes to them, she notes in the hedge itself a wild convolvulus, and just a little beyond it a wild dog-rose, parent of all roses. Rossmoyne

Some represented vine leaves, tendrils, or bunches of grapes; others were fashioned like the long leaves and blue flowers of the convolvulus. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851

The beautiful walnut-wood house stood half finished, and the great convolvulus had crept over its four walls. Timar's Two Worlds

A pipal tree flourished aloft above its dome, its roots buried in the concrete and clinging to the walls; while festoons of wild convolvulus hung in profusion from the lower branches. Banked Fires

Stray lumps of coal crush the delicate pimpernel and creeping convolvulus. The Hills and the Vale

But Susan Jones was as different from her sister as the little graceful convolvulus from the great rough stick that supports it. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings

The other family resembles the convolvulus, trumpet-flower, and such others, in which the lower part of the bell is slender, and the lip curves outwards at the top. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3),

I am in a charming light room, with three windows down to the ground, and a bewitching paper of pale green, with slender gold rods running up it, all wound round with various colored convolvuli. Records of Later Life

These wild convolvuli grow with such amazing rapidity, that in a month of rainy weather the whole path is blocked. Banked Fires

I chanced on a hedge-sparrow's lately, the whole groundwork of which was composed of the dry vines of the wild white convolvulus. The Hills and the Vale

Sometimes the sacred convolvulus takes the place of the lotus. Needlework As Art

And I pinted up at a gigantick trumpet creeper and convolvuli, festooned along the boughs of a giant geranium and hanging down its banner of bloom. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife

From its appearance we likened it to a giant convolvulus, for, while the pliant stem was as thick as a man's arm, there hung from it huge leaves and petals resembling that flower in shape. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

What a beauty is there in the 'primrose,' which is just the prime-rose; in the 'Beauty of the Night' and the 'Morning Glory,' except when a pompous scientific terminology, would convert it into a convolvulus! Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

The young hunters turned to look upwards among the dense leaves of a gigantic maple tree whose lower branches were matted with twining convolvulus and other wild creepers. The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West

From these were derived the forms of the early Greek column—soon enriched by substituting the Acanthus for the Lotus, but often retaining the convolvulus. Needlework As Art

At such a time the spirit is set free and opens out like the corolla of the convolvulus. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook

“Perhaps not,” said the Blackbird, gazing rather 63 sentimentally at the closing blossoms of the convolvulus, “perhaps not, but the flowers are very lovely.” What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps

Try to find a remarkable plant belonging to the convolvulus family, the wild-potato vine, or "man of the earth." Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly

All the old friends were there, too: wild roses, honeysuckle, convolvulus, growing in the midst of feathery ferns and young-gold bracken. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America

The convolvulus and some other plants closed their leaves, but those of the mimosa remained open. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition

The trefoil, honeysuckle, myrtle, and white convolvulus grew in rank profusion, with occasional pale pink, single-leaved roses. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months

A twig of oak forms the ground, from among the thin golden leaves of which spring forth asters with chalices of blue enamel, convolvulus, narcissus, ivy, roses, and myrtle, gracefully intertwined. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The red gravel walk from the landing to the palace gate was strewn with hibiscus and alamander and yellow convolvulus flowers, and bordered with the delicate maidenhair fern. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines

A nearer approach revealed that the cottage was covered with blue convolvulus and other creepers, and that the verandahs were enclosed with glass. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India

Upon these banks the first coltsfoot flowers in March, the first convolvulus in summer, and almost the last hawkweed in autumn. The Toilers of the Field

This tiny lake was bordered by thick growing myrtles, and a shrub with a dagger-like leaf, bearing a trumpet-shaped flower, snow white, but unknown to us, seemingly of the convolvulus genus. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months

The sandhills on the verge of the ocean are carpeted with creepers and the wild convolvulus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

Each little garden flames with red poinsettia, purple convolvulus, and yellow daisies. Through the Malay Archipelago

Peppers, vines, and convolvulus twine themselves round the trunks and branches, and hang in graceful pendants from the boughs. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty

Almost opposite, by autumn, when the reapers are busy with the sheaves, the hedge is white with the large trumpet-flowers of the greater convolvulus. The Toilers of the Field

Red and yellow flowers grew in the ditches, wild hops and convolvuli in full bloom in the hedges. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Round the surfaces of these stems the green leaves and purple flowers of convolvuli clung. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore

“Let’s sit down and look at the garden,” said he, pointing to a huge log by the near wall—“and aren’t the convolvuluses beautiful?” The Ghost Girl

Around the hem of the skirt were sprays of pink and white dog-roses, while the bodice was wreathed with tiny pink and white convolvulus. Cornwall's Wonderland

It is enclosed by thick hedges, over which the dog-rose grows, and the wild convolvulus will blossom in the autumn. The Toilers of the Field

It was difficult to advance: wood lilies and anemones grew almost too high; flowering convolvuli and brambles were hanging like garlands from tree to tree; while the nightingales were singing and the sunbeams played. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

The soft winds moved the leaves of the silver poplar, the violet-scented air fanned their cheeks, the convolvuli were closing, and the narcissi nodded good-night; it seemed sacrilege to break in on the perfumed silence. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus

The convolvuluses, the ferns, and the parasites, all entangled together, compelled us to use our knives. Adventures of a Young Naturalist

And so the delighted travellers went on, over the ground, through203 the thick-tangled weeds and convolvuli, making new discoveries at every step. Popular Adventure Tales

The roughly erected fences were, so to speak, smothered with glorious trumpet-blossomed convolvuli, whose bright hues were peering ever from a bed of heart and spear shaped richly green leaves. The Golden Magnet

And so the delighted travellers went on, over the ground, through the thick-tangled weeds and convolvuli, making new discoveries at every step. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon

Her eyes had fallen on some soil turned up in a corner of the cemetery, half hidden by two barrel-hoops crossed over each other and up which wild convolvulus was growing. Renée Mauperin

The wild jasmine and convolvuli, which reach from tree to tree, form bowers and walks of exquisite beauty. The History of Tasmania, Volume I

Afterwards he picked all the yellow crow-toes within reach, and the broad mauve flowers of the wild convolvulus. The Northern Iron

This bark disappeared under the tufts of leaves round which were twined the bells of the convolvulus, a symbolic flower, since it widens out like a chalice, and has the dead white of a wafer. En Route

Other wild flowers, such as the convolvulus, close before rain. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children

These also were bound together by the convolvulus in a way which made them perfectly impenetrable. Adventures in Africa By an African Trader

Trailing masses of convolvulus and ivy and Virginian creeper were hanging about everywhere, and the walls were covered so thickly that for some time Mary looked in vain for an entrance. A Pair of Clogs

A small convolvulus, known as the prairie gourd, is lying at his feet. The Scalp Hunters

Pliny, in his Natural History, has the pretty notion that "Nature, in learning to form a lily, turned out a convolvulus." Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

There were the trumpet-shaped bignonias—convolvuli in pendulous bells—syngenesists disposed in spreading umbels; and over them, closely set upon tall spikes, rose the showy blossoms of the bromelias—aloes and dasylyrium. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

They were mixed with a serrated grass which cut our hands, while the whole was bound together by the climbing convolvulus, with stalks so strong that we could not break them. Adventures in Africa By an African Trader

Its course was northwest, through jungles of bamboo, round the rims of marshes, past forests filmed with the blue and yellow of convolvulus. Sacrifice

There were pretty delicately coloured shells, and here and there a pale pink convolvulus growing low, with grey-green leaves. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

No doubt, fair lady; but convolvuli in Berlin patterns, and those which are wrought in 'nature's looms,' differ wonderfully. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852

Myrtles, too, mingled their foliage with wild limes, their branches twined with flowering parasites, as the climbing combretum, with its long flame-like clusters, convolvuli, with large white blossoms, and the beautiful twin-leaved bauhinia. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

The weasel is a pretty jumper, but this time a tendril of convolvulus upset his aim. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character

The trees were loaded with climbing cactus and a large purple convolvulus with great round leaves. Southern Arabia

Here, as in the jungle, pretty blue convolvuli twisted up dead reeds nearly to our level, and peeped up at the sun. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

They landed every evening to sleep, having to push their way between a wide belt of reeds, rushes, and convolvuli. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley

From tree to tree huge parasites stretched like cables—vines, and lianas, and various species of convolvulus. The Boy Hunters

Pink and white convolvulus hung in festoons across the bracken-bordered little winding pathways that led here and there through mazes of shrubbery and undergrowth, under the arched wilderness of greenery above. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel

A lame Bedou brought us some green oranges and potatoes, which were really the roots of a convolvulus: they were not bad when baked in the ashes, but hard when boiled. Southern Arabia

Another day she had twisted a band of convolvulus around her waist. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

There was a fir copse at the summit through which the track went; by the gateway as we entered there was a convolvulus out. Round About a Great Estate

Around these uprights, and upon the railing that shut in the verandah, clung vines, rose-bushes, and convolvulus plants, that at certain seasons of the year were clustered over with beautiful flowers. The Boy Hunters

Almond and orange trees fill the air with fragrance; his path struggles through the tangled flowers, the cistus and the blue convolvulus, and he disturbs the nightingale in her pleasant haunt. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3

Thus a rose folds them over one another, in the bud; a convolvulus twists them,—the one expanding into a flat cinquefoil of separate petals, and the other into a deep-welled cinquefoil of connected ones. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers

Weeds had started up between the stone slabs of the steps, and the roses blossomed out sweet and profuse, for it was the time of roses, amid convolvulus and campion. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

The grass around is gemmed with blue pimpernel and convolvulus. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series

The sheaf grows under her fingers, it is bound about with a girdle of twisted stalks, in which mingle the green bine of convolvulus and the pink-streaked bells that must fade. Nature Near London

Thence we debouched upon the surf-lashed shore, tripped over by the sandpiper and the curlew and roped by the bright-flowered convolvulus. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

The low house was of adobe, plastered white, but stained and battered where the walls were not hidden by rank-growing creepers, convolvulus, and Madeira vines. The Second Latchkey

With the assistance of her friends, he collected from the mountain slope a great quantity of the kowali, or convolvulus vine. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends

Lying among acanthus leaves and asphodels, bound together by wreaths of white and pink convolvulus, we only feel that this is the loveliest landscape on which our eyes have ever rested or can rest. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series

The hedge there seems made of convolvulus then; nothing but convolvulus, and nowhere else does the flower flourish so strongly; the bines remain till the following spring. Nature Near London

Corn-flowers, larkspur, convolvulus, and many other flowers grew profusely enough among the grain to come under the head of weeds. Russian Rambles

Some were very richly carved, but Nature's tracery was rapidly blotting out the handiwork of man, the twining convolvulus usurping the glories of the patient chisel. Dead Man's Rock

The flowers on the other side are, perhaps, a carnation in the centre, and round it a convolvulus, lily, daffodil, and rose. English Embroidered Bookbindings

Underfoot, a convolvulus with large white blossoms, binding dingy stone to stone, might be compared to a rope of Desdemona's pearls upon the neck of Othello. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series

She wore a delicately hued French frock and a mauve hat covered with blue convolvuli, but in her extraordinary self-absorption and intentness of thought there was something uncivilised about her. The Halo

Pimpernel, convolvulus, mignonette, marigold, and pansy were English enough, and in addition to these the ox-daisies of our meadows were almost as common here. Morocco

It was more than a quarter of an hour when I climbed over the stile again, laden with scarlet poppies and pale-coloured convolvuli. Uncle Max

It took him two hours to give the canaries their seed, three to stick a pin through a dead butterfly, and four to pick a convolvulus. Best Short Stories

We came presently to a little stone summerhouse or arbour, enclustered with leaves and flowers of ivy and convolvulus, wherein two great dishes of cherries stood and bowls of honeycomb and sillabub. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance

The grasses and wild flowers bordering the pathway were strange to me;—nevertheless, the palings were covered with convolvuli like our own, and I recognized in the gardens, china asters, zinnias, and other familiar flowers. Madame Chrysantheme

An occasional convolvulus drowned in dust straggled in weary clinging grace by the roadside—a pathetic symbol, he reflected, of the pale refined irrelevant women who fade ineffectually beside the highways of life. Balloons

The convolvulus leaves are worked in raised satin stitch, the veinings and stems in overcast stitch, the eyelet-holes in slanting overcast stitch. Beeton's Book of Needlework

Under the stems of the ilex peep cyclamens, pink and sweet; the hedgerows are a tangle of vetches, convolvuluses, lupines, orchises, and alliums, with here and there a purple iris. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

There were ferns of various descriptions in the forest, and many fine trees, entwined, supported, or suffocated by numerous climbing plants, amongst which were blue and lilac convolvulus, and magnificent passion-flowers. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

On the ground we saw some grass, a species of convolvulus, and a good deal of treacle-mustard. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time

He told her about the convolvuluses, and she said he ought to write a book. Balloons

He has his promenades, his drives, his club visits, is seen everywhere—a brilliant convolvulus now, twining the espaliers of that Saracenic fabric of society; to speak architecturally, its very summer-house. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

The dense and nearly impenetrable forest itself occupied our chief attention; magnificent trees, altogether new to us, were anchored to the ground by bush-rope, convolvuli, and parasitical plants of every variety. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832

Some grew into golden painted silken flowers, the convolvuli of their brief summer days; and some drifted into the Seine water, rusted, wind-tossed, fallen leaves, that were wanted of no man. Bebee

A yellowing convolvulus climbed up a dead weed. Unhappy Far-Off Things

The creepers that grow best are passion-flowers, and a small kind of green creeper with convolvulus flowers, the name of which I do not know. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore

The pillars look extremely pretty, wreathed with the luxuriant hop-vine, mixed with the scarlet creeper and "morning glory," the American name for the most splendid of major convolvuluses. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America

The blue convolvulus was also seen today for the first time, also a most beautiful small blue flower with a dark purple eye. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia

After Hamilton had gone, Saidie stepped through the long window into the verandah, full of green light, completely shaded as it was by the giant convolvulus that spread all over it. Six Women

The interior is lined with twisted tendrils of convolvulus and other creepers. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1

We could catch the strings of convolvulus with our walking-sticks, as the train passed through the jungle. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern

We went, and, wandering again through the garden-paths, she brushed the dew with her trailing festal garments, and plucked the great blue convolvuli to crown her forehead. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863

The beauty of the convolvulus, how bright it is!—and yet in one short morning it closes its petals and fades. Tales of Old Japan

A deep pink convolvulus was common, which grew upon a bush, not on a vine, and was a large and thrifty plant. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875

Once more the roses were like her lips, the sky-blue convolvulus was like her eyes, the snowy lily with its pensive, drooping head was her very image. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English

There are the koromiko bush with white and purple blossoms, and the white convolvulus which covers whole thickets with blooms, delicate as carved ivory, whiter than milk. The Long White Cloud

The garden convolvulus opens a blushing white and passes into full purple. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1

There are half a dozen of them: a fuchsia, a convolvulus, lilies. Nancy

I had a beautiful convolvulus growing upon a trellis work in an upper verandah with a south-western aspect. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden

The frail convolvulus had wreathed Its cup, but the faint flush of eve Lingered upon thy Western wall; Thou hadst no word to give. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I.

Calystegia.—A perfectly hardy climbing convolvulus, and a beautiful plant for covering arbours, etc., growing 20 ft. to 30 ft. in one season. Gardening for the Million

The hedges, though low, are green, and bear the beautiful flowers of the wild convolvulus. Hodge and His Masters

After skirting the flanks of some of the outlying spurs, we bustled through a tunnel and drew up at a bright little station, draped with great blue and pink convolvulus. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

The convolvulus is a plant of a rather delicate character and I was perfectly astonished at its tenacity of life in this case. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden

"Is this love at first sight?" he asked himself, as he walked homeward along the rustic lane, where dog-roses and the starry flowers of the wild convolvulus gleamed whitely in the uncertain light. Fenton's Quest

There is the dim funereal ivy, there is the brightness and glow of the purple convolvulus, there is the wild-rose clustering round the windows. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little

On the verge of the dust the red pimpernel opened its flowers to the bright blue cloudless sky, and the lowly convolvulus grew thickly among the tall dusty bennets. Hodge and His Masters

Upon the edge of the beach, the pandanus, the hibiscus, and a variety of other tropical trees and shrubs were growing, and the sand was variegated with the long-stemmed convolvulus in full flower. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1

The convolvulus growing too luxuriantly and encroaching too much upon the space devoted to a creeper of another kind, I separated its upper branches from the root and left them to die. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden

As Heru was carried swiftly by she stretched her milk-white arms towards the prince and turned her face, lovely as a convolvulus flower even in its pallor, upon him. Gulliver of Mars

She was of pale convolvulus blue that afternoon, and Doby, standing up touching his forelock and Mrs. Welden curtsying, gazed at her with prayer in their eyes. The Shuttle

The clover dusty, the convolvulus dusty, the brambles and hawthorn, the small scattered elms all dusty, all longing for a shower or for a cool breeze. Hodge and His Masters

Under an ancient garden wall among matted bines of trumpet convolvulus, there is a hedge-sparrow’s nest overhung with ivy on which even now the last black berries cling. Pageant of Summer

There were creepers hanging from the upper branches, and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white things like convolvuluses, hung down fast asleep. The Jungle Book

Below appeared a sheer drop of a hundred feet into a moat winding through thickets of heavy-scented convolvulus flowers to the waterways beyond. Gulliver of Mars

It was pleasant to see the convolvulus, the passion-flower, and the begonia, all reminding me of home, here among these inhospitable rocks. The Lost World

My Tess, no doubt, almost as many experiences as that wild convolvulus out there on the garden hedge, that opened itself this morning for the first time. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Roses, nasturtiums and convolvulus, wallflowers, sweet-pease and carnations, marigolds and sunflowers, dahlias and pansies and hollyhocks and poppies, and Heaven knows what besides! Peter Ibbetson

Some annuals do not bear transplanting well; as poppies, bartonia, Venus' looking-glass, the dwarf convolvulus, lupinus, and malope. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

Princess Heru, for so she was called, was resting one arm upon his knee at our approach and pulling a blue convolvulus bud to pieces—a charming picture of dainty idleness. Gulliver of Mars

On either side the white path was a grassy margin thickly woven with pink convolvuli. The Trespasser

The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees; The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3

Already they spent many hours of the day in their shuttered and closed rooms, and Eleanor was whiter than the convolvulus which covered the new-mown hayfields. Eleanor

Several species of convolvulus, closely allied to the common morning-glory, have now enriched our lists. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

It was of pure gold, round-brimmed, and circled about with a string of the blue convolvulus, which implies delight to these people. Gulliver of Mars

She dwelled, as she passed, on all tiny, pretty things—on the barbaric yellow ragwort, and pink convolvuli; on all the twinkling of flowers, and dew, and snail-tracks drying in the sun. The Trespasser

As a perfect Argand flame in the usual position has been likened in form to a tulip flower, so the flame of this burner presents the appearance of an inverted convolvulus. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882

Between the gardens and the cobbled streets stood hedges higher than a horseman might look, of stalwart thorn, and upward through it clambered the convolvulus to peer into the garden from the top. Time and the Gods

The wistaria, the convolvulus, the peony, each in its season, form displays of efflorescence lovely enough to draw whole populations out of the cities into the country to see them.. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series

At last the may appeared and the convolvulus. A Dreamer's Tales

The pink convolvuli were fairy horns or telephones from the day fairies to the night fairies. The Trespasser

She slipped back into her reverie, which her son's smile had lit up with a bright ray of light like the sunbeam on the pale leaves of the convolvulus. Jean-Christophe, Volume I

She saw the low cliffs all gemmed at this season with moon-flowers—the great white convolvulus which twinkled there. Lying Prophets

Over Rosalie's head there was a lark singing in mid-air, and by the side of the path grew the small pink flowers of the wild convolvulus. A Peep Behind the Scenes

Withybind is one of the numerous vernacular names of the common convolvulus. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs

High water drives the wayfarer to the loose, impeding sand, over which the great convolvulus sends its tireless tentacles, to be thrown back twisted and burnt by salt surges. Tropic Days

On the window-sill a pot of convolvulus climbed along its threads and over this frail ladder stretched its tendrils which were caressed by a ray of sunlight. Jean-Christophe, Volume I

There are a great many fountains inclosed by thickets of shrubs, and cool alleys which lead to arbours of trellis-work, festooned with nasturtiums and convolvuluses. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

In the case of Polygonum convolvulus, the Black bindweed, I have tried as many as six generations without ever obtaining more than 3%. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

It was warm and they had coffee served in the convolvulus bower. The Idol of Paris

As the convolvulus stands in apparent changelessness in a silent rose-and-white eternity, so she seemed to herself a stationary being. Gone to Earth

At the edge of the bank pink convolvulus twines round the stalks and the green-flowered buckwheat gathers several together. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

No, but the blue morning-glory opening in his cage amid the wistaria, communicates by subterranean filaments with this white convolvulus trembling above the pool. Chantecler Play in Four Acts

Some of the bell-flowers close their apertures at night, or in rainy or cold weather, as the convolvulus, and thus protect their included stamens and pistils. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes.

Tea was to be served in the little beautiful convolvulus garden. The Idol of Paris

But the convolvulus has budded and bloomed and closed again while you thought her still, and she dies—the rayed and rosy cup so full of airy sweetness—she dies in a day. Gone to Earth

A party of twenty or thirty natives were encamped here, and were apparently living upon the roots of the convolvulus, which grows in the vicinity in great abundance. Journals of Australian Explorations

Formerly a species of primula was known as "lady's candlestick," and a Wiltshire nickname for the common convolvulus is "lady's nightcap," Canterbury bells in some places supplying this need. The Folk-lore of Plants

Far in the thick wheat the streaked convolvulus winds up the stalks, and is not smothered for want of air though wrapped and circled with corn. The Open Air

The children used to gather large nosegays of poppies and cornflowers, and little pinky convolvuli. Esther : a book for girls

The convolvuluses let their white crowns be filled to the brim, drank healths to each other, and emptied the water over the heads of the nettles. Mogens and Other Stories

The straw covers over the knives, the rims of the wheels sink into pimpernel, convolvulus, veronica; the dry earth powders them, and so all beneath is concealed. The Life of the Fields

The garden,—I do not know if you would like the garden; it is old- fashioned—full of old-fashioned flowers—convolvuluses, Michaelmas daisies, marigolds; hedges clipped into all sorts of strange and close shapes. Spring Days

Bright poppies flower in its depths, and convolvulus climbs the stalks. The Open Air

The pink balls of the spinous mimosa, and bright flowers, especially the convolvulus and ipomaea, illuminated the dull green. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

There was the oak and everything else; there even were still convolvuluses on the hedge. Mogens and Other Stories

Under an ancient garden wall among matted bines of trumpet convolvulus, there is a hedge-sparrow's nest overhung with ivy on which even now the last black berries cling. The Life of the Fields

Our specimen was strung with thin cords made from the fibre of a lliana; I was shown this growth, which looked much like a convolvulus. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1

Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers. Jacob's Room

This he finds in such a plant as the convolvulus; in this kind of plant the vertical tendency is lacking, and the spiral principle comes obviously into outer view. Man or Matter

Sometimes he is assisted by ropes extemporized from the long convolvuli which hang from almost every tree, but not always, these being deemed superfluities by the Washensi. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley

Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking

They paused awhile under some trellis work covered with a profusion of Japanese convolvuluses, pale blue, slate colour, rose-tinted, purple, deep red, with white and coloured bands, a marvellous display of fragile beauty. South Wind

He constantly reminded us of a convolvulus balancing its heaven-colored cup upon an incredibly slight stem, the tissue of which is so like vapor that the slightest contact wounds and tears the misty corolla. Life of Chopin

Accordingly, the convolvulus requires an external support, around which it can wind itself. Man or Matter

A plant of Ipomoea purpurea, or as it is often called in England the convolvulus major, a native of South America, grew in my greenhouse. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

She might venture now to walk up towards the dry, white sandheaps, where the little convolvulus grew in abundance, and other flowers of which she neither knew nor cared to learn the names. The Odd Women

Leaning against one of the pillars, Beulah unfastened a wreath of blue convolvulus which Mrs. Williams had twined in her hair an hour before. Beulah

She no longer supported herself upon the flexible stalks of the nasturtiums and the convolvulus, which Mr. Tom Thumb cultivated, and who more than once had complained at finding them broken. Piccolissima

She stood, a duskily glowing, radiant emblem of life against the background of spring greenery and rioting convolvulus. Simon the Jester

The fertilisation of the flowers with their own pollen was superfluous, as this convolvulus is highly self-fertile; but I acted in this manner to make the experiments correspond in all respects. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

I sat up, and remained for a long time filled with the delight and charm of the delicate little convolvulus that twined among the barley stems, the pimpernel that laced the ground below. In the Days of the Comet

‘That charming woman with the shining bunch of hair and convolvuluses?’ The Hand of Ethelberta

The roof is full of crevices, but in each crevice there is a convolvulus that will blossom in the spring, or a daisy that will bloom in the autumn. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

Many flowers peeped out near the water’s edge, some entirely new to us, and others, as the convolvulus, old acquaintances. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864

Creeping convolvuli and others have made use of the slender lianas and hanging air roots as ladders to climb by. The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The vegetable aliments consisted of edible ferns, sweet potatoes, the "convolvulus batatas," which was indigenous, and the potato which had been imported long before by the Europeans. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant

But if you have a house and garden you can try to make hollyhock tea or convolvulus wine if you like. What's Wrong with the World

This bas-relief was surmounted by a projecting plinth, upon which a variety of chance growths had sprung up,—yellow pellitory, bindweed, convolvuli, nettles, plantain, and even a little cherry-tree, already grown to some height. Eugenie Grandet

They came home with new wealth untold every day— of ipomoea, convolvulus, passion-flowers, and orchids. The Brick Moon and Other Stories

Without knowing why, my eyes reverted ever to that white spot, to the woman who shone in that garden as the bell of a convolvulus shines amid the underbrush, and wilts if touched. The Lily of the Valley

It sucked up the little drop of water that lay in the hollow of the curved shells; it bleached the pink convolvulus that threaded through and through the sand-hills. The Garden Party and Other Stories

Like lengths of convolvulus torn from the hedge, And trailing the highway over, The dreamy-eyed mistresses circled the sedge, And called for a lover, a lover! Poems — Volume 1

单词	convolvulus
例句	convolvulus As a humped convolvulus rearing its dragon’s head from an icy lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Great stands of nettles and strange plants flourish: nightshade, poisonous legumes, convolvulus, digitalis, Afghan poppies, cannabis, aphrodisiacs, psychotropic plants. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z Sustainability is, of course, still in, but over the last five years it's become strangely entwined with the convolvulus of "growth". The Trojan horse 2013-11-29T16:10:11Z On either side the jungle rose to the height of about two hundred feet--a tangled mass of vegetation, of creepers, vines, convolvuli, so densely interwoven as to give the effect of endless walls. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z By the wayside the convolvulus was opening its big pink cups. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Here was a spot of red, there a dash of orange; at intervals the pale yellow flowers of climbing gourds and the mauve blossoms of convolvuli peeped from the wall of vivid green. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z She whirled round on one foot, and her gown seemed like a big convolvulus; and after this revolution she stopped in front of me, laughing and clapping her hands. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Creeping convolvuli and others have made use of the slender lianas and hanging air-roots as ladders to climb by. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Here the “wild morning-glory,” the tiny fields convolvulus, hides perilously in the mowing; white clover and yellow five-finger are spread; the grassflower holds up its single jewel. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Emily found a smear of blood on a beautiful trail of yellow convolvulus. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Although hidden from us, we know there are plenty of roots of the wild convolvulus running under the ground there; so with the evil thoughts of our hearts. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z His garden was a jungle of old-fashioned flowers, golden-rod, sweet-william, convolvulus, and rose of Sharon; figs and apricots ripened on his walls, and the house was covered with roses, honeysuckle, white clematis, and blue ceanothus. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z His way led up a narrow and steep track, hedged in with thorns over which the purple convolvulus twined in a confused network. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z She breathes upon the wild convolvulus that trails among the grass, and it twists up its silken blossoms till they look like little wisps of calico, pink and white. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Then I turned and dragged a trail of golden-leaved convolvulus from the hedge, and I twisted it into a coronet for her. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z They are as grasping as a convolvulus for the water. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z The girl wore a marine blue dress with white lace trimmings, and she had on her head a straw hat with a wreath of red convolvulus. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Here were feathery palms, there a cluster of small trees like hazels; all about, the ground was carpeted with masses of convolvulus and creeping plants innumerable, and the air was heavy with mingled scents. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z In the rocky dells there are several kinds of convolvulus of very rich florescence. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z The dogwood berries stood jauntily scarlet on the hedge-tops, the bunched scarlet and green berries of the convolvulus and bryony hung amid golden trails, the blackberries dropped ungathered. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z A convolvulus had climbed to the sundial, wrapping it round and round, and had laid its bold white trumpet flowers on the leaded disk itself. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z But have they not their rivals in the climbing honeysuckle and in the bright-eyed creeping convolvulus? The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The outside of our bungalow is covered with purple convolvulus, and the verandah goes practically all round it. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Lovely flowering climbers were planted, quick growing ones, wild convolvulus and clematis, with a few roses, and before the summer was half done all the walls were covered with a wealth of floral beauty. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The second picture represents, on a marble plinth in a niche, a melon, a pear, and a bunch of black grapes with roses, convolvuluses, poppies, and other flowers. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z When you were vexed with me the other day for tiring myself by tearing the convolvulus off that little orange tree, it was because I could not bear to see it choked. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The wild convolvulus, with its great white bell-like blossoms, that so often stars the hedgerows with a singular beauty, twines always to meet the sun. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z It was a beautiful spot; in the deep green forest convolvuli and other flowering creepers had formed themselves into fantastic arches, more lovely than art could fabricate. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z The garden, too, was well planted, and all along the wire fence, entirely covering it, were wild convolvuluses. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z A tree-trunk surrounded by red and white roses, poppies, convolvuluses, etc., and upon the stony ground, covered with moss and mushrooms, innumerable lizards, toads, snails, and various insects swarm. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The little pink convolvulus creeping in the thin grass made way for them. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z In geranium the cotyledons are twisted and doubled; in convolvulus they are corrugated; and in the potato and in Bunias, they are spiral,—the same terms being applied as to the foliage leaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Do you suppose their brows were wreathed with the honeysuckle’s second autumn bloom, with streaked convolvulus and bronzed ears of wheat? Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z In the season the large white bell-like flowers of the convolvulus will climb over the hawthorn, and the lesser striped kind will creep along the ground. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Its pendant, Flowers, is an exquisite picture of a full-blown rose and a rosebud, a pink and a convolvulus, placed on a marble console. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Now and again a tiny bright-coloured bird would flash across the path, now and again a huge trail of giant convolvulus, blue as the sky, would bar our progress. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z "You have such faith in my gods," he went on, when he could get her away from the convolvulus, "such a bravery of belief, such a dear bravery of belief." The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z The fly-wheel whirled about, beating the air to musical resonance; the steel sinew of Behemoth stretched across the stubble, dragging the shares remorselessly through tender roots of pimpernel and creeping convolvulus. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z A last convolvulus, too, has a single pink-streaked bell, though the bough to which it holds is already partly bare of leaves. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Every traditional pattern—wave, lotus, daisy, convolvulus, honeysuckle, "Sacred Horn" or tree of life; every animal form, or bird, fish or reptile, has been traced to its source, and its symbolism laid bare. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z We talked irrelevancies for a moment more—the passion of the convolvulus moth for petunias, and the other flowers the different sorts of moths and butterflies preferred. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Poppy's muslin gown was of a colour that made her look like a freshly-plucked spray of lilac, and she wore a wide white hat, trimmed with convolvulus. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Travellers are especially struck with the beauty of some of the wild flowers, more especially with the lilies and convolvuluses; and European greenhouses have been enriched by several Formosan orchids and other ornamental plants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Her hand was in mine; her eyes as they laughed up at me were of the color of the blue convolvulus. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The wind soon converted it into something like a convolvulus, so that she was fain once more to seek shelter inside the conveyance, which now lay pensively over on one side, against a muddy bank. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Deep banks covered with fine grass, beautiful acacias, and festoons of lilac-colored convolvuli stretched, along on either side of the stream. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z But nothing more; I hold my breath And strain my eager eye; A yellow crown, two eyes of brown, And pink convolvuli! The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z But over the seaward walls of villa and ch�teau peep valerian and fig, and the path is coral-sprinkled with pimpernel and enamelled with convolvulus and borage and the hosts of smaller flowers. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Class I. Campaniformes, with a regular corolla, of one piece, and resembling a bell; as the convolvulus. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History I think it would be as well to drive it right in like this—it will save further trouble; this wild convolvulus takes such a strong hold of the soil.” The Parson O' Dumford The caterpillar feeds on the convolvulus in May. Butterflies and Moths (British) The golden curls, the elfish laugh, Rose cheeks and glittering eye Are glories, too, like bells of blue And red convolvuli. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z But she flicked his promise aside as she flicked the convolvulus with her nail. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z But the wild asters and the long convolvulus vines were choking the blossomless pinks and the sweet-williams and the few shy English flowers that were left. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests Down there broadleaved convolvuli and creepers had formed a natural bower above a projecting block of stone, in which even at high noon one could sit almost in the dark. The Wish A Novel In summer, no doubt, she worked at the open window, half veiled by a verdant curtain of sweet peas, roses, nasturtiums, and blue and white convolvulus. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 The air is sweet and fresh as dewdrops in convolvuli. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z There was a warm dry earth-wall with heath and thyme and rest-harrow and convolvulus growing on it, and there we sat down. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The plant which thus by its corruption gave birth to the human species was the convolvulus. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Through them I could conjure a vision of her bronzed coronal and Aubrey's massive muscularity, and could picture her glowing arms around his neck—a convolvulus entwining a Gothic column. Love's Usuries And beneath, for contrast, the brilliance of convolvuli and granadillas opposed the tender green. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes A roguish laugh, a rustling vine, I turn my eager eye; Big drops of dew in bells of blue And red convolvuli. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Orchids and lovely lichens clung to the boughs, while huge masses of buff, violet, pink and brilliant yellow convolvuli hung suspended in festoons, brightening the gloom which pervaded this underworld of the jungle. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Grey daylight came streaming between the leaves, the purple convolvuli opened their flowers, and the parrots and wild pigeons began to awake among the branches. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Red and yellow flowers grew amongst the ruins, and the hedges were covered with wild hops and blooming convolvulus. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series But in his catalogue of achievements I find new lilies, new conifers, fuchsias, agaves, cacti, begonias, saxifrage, dahlias, convolvuli, tropaeolums, tacsonias—a multitude, in fact, beyond reckoning. The Woodlands Orchids Round her majestic figure, a slight girl of sixteen twined her arms, clinging to her like the gentle convolvulus to the stately pine. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 There is also the large pearl-hued convolvulus which blossoms only at night, known in Ceylon as "the moon flower," and conspicuous through the dimness by its radiant whiteness. The Pearl of India Its banks were covered with brush, and the masses of convolvuli almost hid it in places. The Ruined Cities of Zululand These are the days of the convolvulus, of ripening berry, and dropping nut. The Hills and the Vale But, before she comes to them, she notes in the hedge itself a wild convolvulus, and just a little beyond it a wild dog-rose, parent of all roses. Rossmoyne Some represented vine leaves, tendrils, or bunches of grapes; others were fashioned like the long leaves and blue flowers of the convolvulus. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 The beautiful walnut-wood house stood half finished, and the great convolvulus had crept over its four walls. Timar's Two Worlds A pipal tree flourished aloft above its dome, its roots buried in the concrete and clinging to the walls; while festoons of wild convolvulus hung in profusion from the lower branches. Banked Fires Stray lumps of coal crush the delicate pimpernel and creeping convolvulus. The Hills and the Vale But Susan Jones was as different from her sister as the little graceful convolvulus from the great rough stick that supports it. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The other family resembles the convolvulus, trumpet-flower, and such others, in which the lower part of the bell is slender, and the lip curves outwards at the top. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), I am in a charming light room, with three windows down to the ground, and a bewitching paper of pale green, with slender gold rods running up it, all wound round with various colored convolvuli. Records of Later Life These wild convolvuli grow with such amazing rapidity, that in a month of rainy weather the whole path is blocked. Banked Fires I chanced on a hedge-sparrow's lately, the whole groundwork of which was composed of the dry vines of the wild white convolvulus. The Hills and the Vale Sometimes the sacred convolvulus takes the place of the lotus. Needlework As Art And I pinted up at a gigantick trumpet creeper and convolvuli, festooned along the boughs of a giant geranium and hanging down its banner of bloom. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife From its appearance we likened it to a giant convolvulus, for, while the pliant stem was as thick as a man's arm, there hung from it huge leaves and petals resembling that flower in shape. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly What a beauty is there in the 'primrose,' which is just the prime-rose; in the 'Beauty of the Night' and the 'Morning Glory,' except when a pompous scientific terminology, would convert it into a convolvulus! Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The young hunters turned to look upwards among the dense leaves of a gigantic maple tree whose lower branches were matted with twining convolvulus and other wild creepers. The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West From these were derived the forms of the early Greek column—soon enriched by substituting the Acanthus for the Lotus, but often retaining the convolvulus. Needlework As Art At such a time the spirit is set free and opens out like the corolla of the convolvulus. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook “Perhaps not,” said the Blackbird, gazing rather 63 sentimentally at the closing blossoms of the convolvulus, “perhaps not, but the flowers are very lovely.” What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps Try to find a remarkable plant belonging to the convolvulus family, the wild-potato vine, or "man of the earth." Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly All the old friends were there, too: wild roses, honeysuckle, convolvulus, growing in the midst of feathery ferns and young-gold bracken. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America The convolvulus and some other plants closed their leaves, but those of the mimosa remained open. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The trefoil, honeysuckle, myrtle, and white convolvulus grew in rank profusion, with occasional pale pink, single-leaved roses. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months A twig of oak forms the ground, from among the thin golden leaves of which spring forth asters with chalices of blue enamel, convolvulus, narcissus, ivy, roses, and myrtle, gracefully intertwined. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The red gravel walk from the landing to the palace gate was strewn with hibiscus and alamander and yellow convolvulus flowers, and bordered with the delicate maidenhair fern. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines A nearer approach revealed that the cottage was covered with blue convolvulus and other creepers, and that the verandahs were enclosed with glass. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Upon these banks the first coltsfoot flowers in March, the first convolvulus in summer, and almost the last hawkweed in autumn. The Toilers of the Field This tiny lake was bordered by thick growing myrtles, and a shrub with a dagger-like leaf, bearing a trumpet-shaped flower, snow white, but unknown to us, seemingly of the convolvulus genus. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The sandhills on the verge of the ocean are carpeted with creepers and the wild convolvulus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Each little garden flames with red poinsettia, purple convolvulus, and yellow daisies. Through the Malay Archipelago Peppers, vines, and convolvulus twine themselves round the trunks and branches, and hang in graceful pendants from the boughs. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Almost opposite, by autumn, when the reapers are busy with the sheaves, the hedge is white with the large trumpet-flowers of the greater convolvulus. The Toilers of the Field Red and yellow flowers grew in the ditches, wild hops and convolvuli in full bloom in the hedges. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Round the surfaces of these stems the green leaves and purple flowers of convolvuli clung. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore “Let’s sit down and look at the garden,” said he, pointing to a huge log by the near wall—“and aren’t the convolvuluses beautiful?” The Ghost Girl Around the hem of the skirt were sprays of pink and white dog-roses, while the bodice was wreathed with tiny pink and white convolvulus. Cornwall's Wonderland It is enclosed by thick hedges, over which the dog-rose grows, and the wild convolvulus will blossom in the autumn. The Toilers of the Field It was difficult to advance: wood lilies and anemones grew almost too high; flowering convolvuli and brambles were hanging like garlands from tree to tree; while the nightingales were singing and the sunbeams played. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The soft winds moved the leaves of the silver poplar, the violet-scented air fanned their cheeks, the convolvuli were closing, and the narcissi nodded good-night; it seemed sacrilege to break in on the perfumed silence. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus The convolvuluses, the ferns, and the parasites, all entangled together, compelled us to use our knives. Adventures of a Young Naturalist And so the delighted travellers went on, over the ground, through203 the thick-tangled weeds and convolvuli, making new discoveries at every step. Popular Adventure Tales The roughly erected fences were, so to speak, smothered with glorious trumpet-blossomed convolvuli, whose bright hues were peering ever from a bed of heart and spear shaped richly green leaves. The Golden Magnet And so the delighted travellers went on, over the ground, through the thick-tangled weeds and convolvuli, making new discoveries at every step. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Her eyes had fallen on some soil turned up in a corner of the cemetery, half hidden by two barrel-hoops crossed over each other and up which wild convolvulus was growing. Renée Mauperin The wild jasmine and convolvuli, which reach from tree to tree, form bowers and walks of exquisite beauty. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Afterwards he picked all the yellow crow-toes within reach, and the broad mauve flowers of the wild convolvulus. The Northern Iron This bark disappeared under the tufts of leaves round which were twined the bells of the convolvulus, a symbolic flower, since it widens out like a chalice, and has the dead white of a wafer. En Route Other wild flowers, such as the convolvulus, close before rain. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children These also were bound together by the convolvulus in a way which made them perfectly impenetrable. Adventures in Africa By an African Trader Trailing masses of convolvulus and ivy and Virginian creeper were hanging about everywhere, and the walls were covered so thickly that for some time Mary looked in vain for an entrance. A Pair of Clogs A small convolvulus, known as the prairie gourd, is lying at his feet. The Scalp Hunters Pliny, in his Natural History, has the pretty notion that "Nature, in learning to form a lily, turned out a convolvulus." Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. There were the trumpet-shaped bignonias—convolvuli in pendulous bells—syngenesists disposed in spreading umbels; and over them, closely set upon tall spikes, rose the showy blossoms of the bromelias—aloes and dasylyrium. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse They were mixed with a serrated grass which cut our hands, while the whole was bound together by the climbing convolvulus, with stalks so strong that we could not break them. Adventures in Africa By an African Trader Its course was northwest, through jungles of bamboo, round the rims of marshes, past forests filmed with the blue and yellow of convolvulus. Sacrifice There were pretty delicately coloured shells, and here and there a pale pink convolvulus growing low, with grey-green leaves. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah No doubt, fair lady; but convolvuli in Berlin patterns, and those which are wrought in 'nature's looms,' differ wonderfully. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 Myrtles, too, mingled their foliage with wild limes, their branches twined with flowering parasites, as the climbing combretum, with its long flame-like clusters, convolvuli, with large white blossoms, and the beautiful twin-leaved bauhinia. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse The weasel is a pretty jumper, but this time a tendril of convolvulus upset his aim. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character The trees were loaded with climbing cactus and a large purple convolvulus with great round leaves. Southern Arabia Here, as in the jungle, pretty blue convolvuli twisted up dead reeds nearly to our level, and peeped up at the sun. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah They landed every evening to sleep, having to push their way between a wide belt of reeds, rushes, and convolvuli. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley From tree to tree huge parasites stretched like cables—vines, and lianas, and various species of convolvulus. The Boy Hunters Pink and white convolvulus hung in festoons across the bracken-bordered little winding pathways that led here and there through mazes of shrubbery and undergrowth, under the arched wilderness of greenery above. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel A lame Bedou brought us some green oranges and potatoes, which were really the roots of a convolvulus: they were not bad when baked in the ashes, but hard when boiled. Southern Arabia Another day she had twisted a band of convolvulus around her waist. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels There was a fir copse at the summit through which the track went; by the gateway as we entered there was a convolvulus out. Round About a Great Estate Around these uprights, and upon the railing that shut in the verandah, clung vines, rose-bushes, and convolvulus plants, that at certain seasons of the year were clustered over with beautiful flowers. The Boy Hunters Almond and orange trees fill the air with fragrance; his path struggles through the tangled flowers, the cistus and the blue convolvulus, and he disturbs the nightingale in her pleasant haunt. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Thus a rose folds them over one another, in the bud; a convolvulus twists them,—the one expanding into a flat cinquefoil of separate petals, and the other into a deep-welled cinquefoil of connected ones. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Weeds had started up between the stone slabs of the steps, and the roses blossomed out sweet and profuse, for it was the time of roses, amid convolvulus and campion. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers The grass around is gemmed with blue pimpernel and convolvulus. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The sheaf grows under her fingers, it is bound about with a girdle of twisted stalks, in which mingle the green bine of convolvulus and the pink-streaked bells that must fade. Nature Near London Thence we debouched upon the surf-lashed shore, tripped over by the sandpiper and the curlew and roped by the bright-flowered convolvulus. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The low house was of adobe, plastered white, but stained and battered where the walls were not hidden by rank-growing creepers, convolvulus, and Madeira vines. The Second Latchkey With the assistance of her friends, he collected from the mountain slope a great quantity of the kowali, or convolvulus vine. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends Lying among acanthus leaves and asphodels, bound together by wreaths of white and pink convolvulus, we only feel that this is the loveliest landscape on which our eyes have ever rested or can rest. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The hedge there seems made of convolvulus then; nothing but convolvulus, and nowhere else does the flower flourish so strongly; the bines remain till the following spring. Nature Near London Corn-flowers, larkspur, convolvulus, and many other flowers grew profusely enough among the grain to come under the head of weeds. Russian Rambles Some were very richly carved, but Nature's tracery was rapidly blotting out the handiwork of man, the twining convolvulus usurping the glories of the patient chisel. Dead Man's Rock The flowers on the other side are, perhaps, a carnation in the centre, and round it a convolvulus, lily, daffodil, and rose. English Embroidered Bookbindings Underfoot, a convolvulus with large white blossoms, binding dingy stone to stone, might be compared to a rope of Desdemona's pearls upon the neck of Othello. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series She wore a delicately hued French frock and a mauve hat covered with blue convolvuli, but in her extraordinary self-absorption and intentness of thought there was something uncivilised about her. The Halo Pimpernel, convolvulus, mignonette, marigold, and pansy were English enough, and in addition to these the ox-daisies of our meadows were almost as common here. Morocco It was more than a quarter of an hour when I climbed over the stile again, laden with scarlet poppies and pale-coloured convolvuli. Uncle Max It took him two hours to give the canaries their seed, three to stick a pin through a dead butterfly, and four to pick a convolvulus. Best Short Stories We came presently to a little stone summerhouse or arbour, enclustered with leaves and flowers of ivy and convolvulus, wherein two great dishes of cherries stood and bowls of honeycomb and sillabub. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance The grasses and wild flowers bordering the pathway were strange to me;—nevertheless, the palings were covered with convolvuli like our own, and I recognized in the gardens, china asters, zinnias, and other familiar flowers. Madame Chrysantheme An occasional convolvulus drowned in dust straggled in weary clinging grace by the roadside—a pathetic symbol, he reflected, of the pale refined irrelevant women who fade ineffectually beside the highways of life. Balloons The convolvulus leaves are worked in raised satin stitch, the veinings and stems in overcast stitch, the eyelet-holes in slanting overcast stitch. Beeton's Book of Needlework Under the stems of the ilex peep cyclamens, pink and sweet; the hedgerows are a tangle of vetches, convolvuluses, lupines, orchises, and alliums, with here and there a purple iris. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series There were ferns of various descriptions in the forest, and many fine trees, entwined, supported, or suffocated by numerous climbing plants, amongst which were blue and lilac convolvulus, and magnificent passion-flowers. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months On the ground we saw some grass, a species of convolvulus, and a good deal of treacle-mustard. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time He told her about the convolvuluses, and she said he ought to write a book. Balloons He has his promenades, his drives, his club visits, is seen everywhere—a brilliant convolvulus now, twining the espaliers of that Saracenic fabric of society; to speak architecturally, its very summer-house. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 The dense and nearly impenetrable forest itself occupied our chief attention; magnificent trees, altogether new to us, were anchored to the ground by bush-rope, convolvuli, and parasitical plants of every variety. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 Some grew into golden painted silken flowers, the convolvuli of their brief summer days; and some drifted into the Seine water, rusted, wind-tossed, fallen leaves, that were wanted of no man. Bebee A yellowing convolvulus climbed up a dead weed. Unhappy Far-Off Things The creepers that grow best are passion-flowers, and a small kind of green creeper with convolvulus flowers, the name of which I do not know. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore The pillars look extremely pretty, wreathed with the luxuriant hop-vine, mixed with the scarlet creeper and "morning glory," the American name for the most splendid of major convolvuluses. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America The blue convolvulus was also seen today for the first time, also a most beautiful small blue flower with a dark purple eye. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia After Hamilton had gone, Saidie stepped through the long window into the verandah, full of green light, completely shaded as it was by the giant convolvulus that spread all over it. Six Women The interior is lined with twisted tendrils of convolvulus and other creepers. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 We could catch the strings of convolvulus with our walking-sticks, as the train passed through the jungle. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern We went, and, wandering again through the garden-paths, she brushed the dew with her trailing festal garments, and plucked the great blue convolvuli to crown her forehead. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 The beauty of the convolvulus, how bright it is!—and yet in one short morning it closes its petals and fades. Tales of Old Japan A deep pink convolvulus was common, which grew upon a bush, not on a vine, and was a large and thrifty plant. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 Once more the roses were like her lips, the sky-blue convolvulus was like her eyes, the snowy lily with its pensive, drooping head was her very image. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English There are the koromiko bush with white and purple blossoms, and the white convolvulus which covers whole thickets with blooms, delicate as carved ivory, whiter than milk. The Long White Cloud The garden convolvulus opens a blushing white and passes into full purple. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 There are half a dozen of them: a fuchsia, a convolvulus, lilies. Nancy I had a beautiful convolvulus growing upon a trellis work in an upper verandah with a south-western aspect. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The frail convolvulus had wreathed Its cup, but the faint flush of eve Lingered upon thy Western wall; Thou hadst no word to give. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. Calystegia.—A perfectly hardy climbing convolvulus, and a beautiful plant for covering arbours, etc., growing 20 ft. to 30 ft. in one season. Gardening for the Million The hedges, though low, are green, and bear the beautiful flowers of the wild convolvulus. Hodge and His Masters After skirting the flanks of some of the outlying spurs, we bustled through a tunnel and drew up at a bright little station, draped with great blue and pink convolvulus. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil The convolvulus is a plant of a rather delicate character and I was perfectly astonished at its tenacity of life in this case. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden "Is this love at first sight?" he asked himself, as he walked homeward along the rustic lane, where dog-roses and the starry flowers of the wild convolvulus gleamed whitely in the uncertain light. Fenton's Quest There is the dim funereal ivy, there is the brightness and glow of the purple convolvulus, there is the wild-rose clustering round the windows. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little On the verge of the dust the red pimpernel opened its flowers to the bright blue cloudless sky, and the lowly convolvulus grew thickly among the tall dusty bennets. Hodge and His Masters Upon the edge of the beach, the pandanus, the hibiscus, and a variety of other tropical trees and shrubs were growing, and the sand was variegated with the long-stemmed convolvulus in full flower. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 The convolvulus growing too luxuriantly and encroaching too much upon the space devoted to a creeper of another kind, I separated its upper branches from the root and left them to die. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden As Heru was carried swiftly by she stretched her milk-white arms towards the prince and turned her face, lovely as a convolvulus flower even in its pallor, upon him. Gulliver of Mars She was of pale convolvulus blue that afternoon, and Doby, standing up touching his forelock and Mrs. Welden curtsying, gazed at her with prayer in their eyes. The Shuttle The clover dusty, the convolvulus dusty, the brambles and hawthorn, the small scattered elms all dusty, all longing for a shower or for a cool breeze. Hodge and His Masters Under an ancient garden wall among matted bines of trumpet convolvulus, there is a hedge-sparrow’s nest overhung with ivy on which even now the last black berries cling. Pageant of Summer There were creepers hanging from the upper branches, and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white things like convolvuluses, hung down fast asleep. The Jungle Book Below appeared a sheer drop of a hundred feet into a moat winding through thickets of heavy-scented convolvulus flowers to the waterways beyond. Gulliver of Mars It was pleasant to see the convolvulus, the passion-flower, and the begonia, all reminding me of home, here among these inhospitable rocks. The Lost World My Tess, no doubt, almost as many experiences as that wild convolvulus out there on the garden hedge, that opened itself this morning for the first time. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Roses, nasturtiums and convolvulus, wallflowers, sweet-pease and carnations, marigolds and sunflowers, dahlias and pansies and hollyhocks and poppies, and Heaven knows what besides! Peter Ibbetson Some annuals do not bear transplanting well; as poppies, bartonia, Venus' looking-glass, the dwarf convolvulus, lupinus, and malope. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Princess Heru, for so she was called, was resting one arm upon his knee at our approach and pulling a blue convolvulus bud to pieces—a charming picture of dainty idleness. Gulliver of Mars On either side the white path was a grassy margin thickly woven with pink convolvuli. The Trespasser The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees; The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 Already they spent many hours of the day in their shuttered and closed rooms, and Eleanor was whiter than the convolvulus which covered the new-mown hayfields. Eleanor Several species of convolvulus, closely allied to the common morning-glory, have now enriched our lists. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) It was of pure gold, round-brimmed, and circled about with a string of the blue convolvulus, which implies delight to these people. Gulliver of Mars She dwelled, as she passed, on all tiny, pretty things—on the barbaric yellow ragwort, and pink convolvuli; on all the twinkling of flowers, and dew, and snail-tracks drying in the sun. The Trespasser As a perfect Argand flame in the usual position has been likened in form to a tulip flower, so the flame of this burner presents the appearance of an inverted convolvulus. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Between the gardens and the cobbled streets stood hedges higher than a horseman might look, of stalwart thorn, and upward through it clambered the convolvulus to peer into the garden from the top. Time and the Gods The wistaria, the convolvulus, the peony, each in its season, form displays of efflorescence lovely enough to draw whole populations out of the cities into the country to see them.. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series At last the may appeared and the convolvulus. A Dreamer's Tales The pink convolvuli were fairy horns or telephones from the day fairies to the night fairies. The Trespasser She slipped back into her reverie, which her son's smile had lit up with a bright ray of light like the sunbeam on the pale leaves of the convolvulus. Jean-Christophe, Volume I She saw the low cliffs all gemmed at this season with moon-flowers—the great white convolvulus which twinkled there. Lying Prophets Over Rosalie's head there was a lark singing in mid-air, and by the side of the path grew the small pink flowers of the wild convolvulus. A Peep Behind the Scenes Withybind is one of the numerous vernacular names of the common convolvulus. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs High water drives the wayfarer to the loose, impeding sand, over which the great convolvulus sends its tireless tentacles, to be thrown back twisted and burnt by salt surges. Tropic Days On the window-sill a pot of convolvulus climbed along its threads and over this frail ladder stretched its tendrils which were caressed by a ray of sunlight. Jean-Christophe, Volume I There are a great many fountains inclosed by thickets of shrubs, and cool alleys which lead to arbours of trellis-work, festooned with nasturtiums and convolvuluses. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents In the case of Polygonum convolvulus, the Black bindweed, I have tried as many as six generations without ever obtaining more than 3%. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation It was warm and they had coffee served in the convolvulus bower. The Idol of Paris As the convolvulus stands in apparent changelessness in a silent rose-and-white eternity, so she seemed to herself a stationary being. Gone to Earth At the edge of the bank pink convolvulus twines round the stalks and the green-flowered buckwheat gathers several together. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies No, but the blue morning-glory opening in his cage amid the wistaria, communicates by subterranean filaments with this white convolvulus trembling above the pool. Chantecler Play in Four Acts Some of the bell-flowers close their apertures at night, or in rainy or cold weather, as the convolvulus, and thus protect their included stamens and pistils. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Tea was to be served in the little beautiful convolvulus garden. The Idol of Paris But the convolvulus has budded and bloomed and closed again while you thought her still, and she dies—the rayed and rosy cup so full of airy sweetness—she dies in a day. Gone to Earth A party of twenty or thirty natives were encamped here, and were apparently living upon the roots of the convolvulus, which grows in the vicinity in great abundance. Journals of Australian Explorations Formerly a species of primula was known as "lady's candlestick," and a Wiltshire nickname for the common convolvulus is "lady's nightcap," Canterbury bells in some places supplying this need. The Folk-lore of Plants Far in the thick wheat the streaked convolvulus winds up the stalks, and is not smothered for want of air though wrapped and circled with corn. The Open Air The children used to gather large nosegays of poppies and cornflowers, and little pinky convolvuli. Esther : a book for girls The convolvuluses let their white crowns be filled to the brim, drank healths to each other, and emptied the water over the heads of the nettles. Mogens and Other Stories The straw covers over the knives, the rims of the wheels sink into pimpernel, convolvulus, veronica; the dry earth powders them, and so all beneath is concealed. The Life of the Fields The garden,—I do not know if you would like the garden; it is old- fashioned—full of old-fashioned flowers—convolvuluses, Michaelmas daisies, marigolds; hedges clipped into all sorts of strange and close shapes. Spring Days Bright poppies flower in its depths, and convolvulus climbs the stalks. The Open Air The pink balls of the spinous mimosa, and bright flowers, especially the convolvulus and ipomaea, illuminated the dull green. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 There was the oak and everything else; there even were still convolvuluses on the hedge. Mogens and Other Stories Under an ancient garden wall among matted bines of trumpet convolvulus, there is a hedge-sparrow's nest overhung with ivy on which even now the last black berries cling. The Life of the Fields Our specimen was strung with thin cords made from the fibre of a lliana; I was shown this growth, which looked much like a convolvulus. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers. Jacob's Room This he finds in such a plant as the convolvulus; in this kind of plant the vertical tendency is lacking, and the spiral principle comes obviously into outer view. Man or Matter Sometimes he is assisted by ropes extemporized from the long convolvuli which hang from almost every tree, but not always, these being deemed superfluities by the Washensi. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking They paused awhile under some trellis work covered with a profusion of Japanese convolvuluses, pale blue, slate colour, rose-tinted, purple, deep red, with white and coloured bands, a marvellous display of fragile beauty. South Wind He constantly reminded us of a convolvulus balancing its heaven-colored cup upon an incredibly slight stem, the tissue of which is so like vapor that the slightest contact wounds and tears the misty corolla. Life of Chopin Accordingly, the convolvulus requires an external support, around which it can wind itself. Man or Matter A plant of Ipomoea purpurea, or as it is often called in England the convolvulus major, a native of South America, grew in my greenhouse. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom She might venture now to walk up towards the dry, white sandheaps, where the little convolvulus grew in abundance, and other flowers of which she neither knew nor cared to learn the names. The Odd Women Leaning against one of the pillars, Beulah unfastened a wreath of blue convolvulus which Mrs. Williams had twined in her hair an hour before. Beulah She no longer supported herself upon the flexible stalks of the nasturtiums and the convolvulus, which Mr. Tom Thumb cultivated, and who more than once had complained at finding them broken. Piccolissima She stood, a duskily glowing, radiant emblem of life against the background of spring greenery and rioting convolvulus. Simon the Jester The fertilisation of the flowers with their own pollen was superfluous, as this convolvulus is highly self-fertile; but I acted in this manner to make the experiments correspond in all respects. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom I sat up, and remained for a long time filled with the delight and charm of the delicate little convolvulus that twined among the barley stems, the pimpernel that laced the ground below. In the Days of the Comet ‘That charming woman with the shining bunch of hair and convolvuluses?’ The Hand of Ethelberta The roof is full of crevices, but in each crevice there is a convolvulus that will blossom in the spring, or a daisy that will bloom in the autumn. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Many flowers peeped out near the water’s edge, some entirely new to us, and others, as the convolvulus, old acquaintances. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Creeping convolvuli and others have made use of the slender lianas and hanging air roots as ladders to climb by. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The vegetable aliments consisted of edible ferns, sweet potatoes, the "convolvulus batatas," which was indigenous, and the potato which had been imported long before by the Europeans. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant But if you have a house and garden you can try to make hollyhock tea or convolvulus wine if you like. What's Wrong with the World This bas-relief was surmounted by a projecting plinth, upon which a variety of chance growths had sprung up,—yellow pellitory, bindweed, convolvuli, nettles, plantain, and even a little cherry-tree, already grown to some height. Eugenie Grandet They came home with new wealth untold every day— of ipomoea, convolvulus, passion-flowers, and orchids. The Brick Moon and Other Stories Without knowing why, my eyes reverted ever to that white spot, to the woman who shone in that garden as the bell of a convolvulus shines amid the underbrush, and wilts if touched. The Lily of the Valley It sucked up the little drop of water that lay in the hollow of the curved shells; it bleached the pink convolvulus that threaded through and through the sand-hills. The Garden Party and Other Stories Like lengths of convolvulus torn from the hedge, And trailing the highway over, The dreamy-eyed mistresses circled the sedge, And called for a lover, a lover! Poems — Volume 1
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