| 单词 | cornflower |
| 例句 | But my eyes are cornflower blue, like Mother’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The grass was knee-high and thick with cornflowers, gentians, cinquefoil. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the blue of cornflowers or dragonfly wings or skies, and not of tyranny, either, or murder waiting to happen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She’s standing in the yard in a cornflower blue dress hanging laundry on the line. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I open my eyes to a sky the color of blue cornflowers and treetops swaying in the light breeze. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I'd forgotten to save any day clothes from the ones I let fly over New York, so Betsy had traded me a blouse and skirt for my bathrobe with the cornflowers on it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z His eyes were clear, of the pale sweet blue of cornflowers, his thick mouth hung open, drooling a little. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay under the faded bedding like a rag doll losing its stuffing, her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow, her cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The child’s pink nightie, the stacks of white pillow slips edged with embroidery, the sheets with top hems picked out with blue cornflowers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was her favorite one, pale yellow bordered with the cornflowers after which she was named. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A little to the left of the shoe I saw a vague heap of blue cornflowers on a white ground and this made me want to cry. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z That is why he chose a pseudonym for me: Gul Makai, which means “cornflower” and is the name of a heroine in a Pashtun folk story. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I struggled into my white bathrobe with the blue cornflowers on it and staggered down to the bathroom. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Fluttering layers and contrasting pockets endowed the cornflower blue and flesh colored looks an interesting textural play. Fashion shows travel continents and eras in Paris 2012-09-27T20:44:15Z At the spring fashion shows, like those for Marc by Marc Jacobs, Prada and Anna Sui, shades of cornflower and lavender were dusted onto eyelids, while ultramarine and emerald rimmed lash lines. How To Get a Spring Beauty Look With Colorful Makeup 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The runway show in Milan in February opened with three bold colors — turquoise, blue and cornflower — of the sort that Pelosi favors. She may not acknowledge it, but Nancy Pelosi is a fashion icon 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z “It was an appropriate flower,” Fonteyn writes with a certain sang-froid, “but I wished they would stick to daisies and cornflowers.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z By chance, I discover her own secret garden, a poetic flowerscape of tole buttercups, cornflowers, sweet peas, a datura and a thistle that is arranged on a small bare wall in her home. | Carmen Almon, The Naturalist 2013-08-21T19:11:13Z She creates gorgeous descriptions of nature, with its “colors so rich she could smell them: flamingo rock, terra-cotta dirt, cornflower sky” in one paragraph, and heart-stopping scenes of violence in the next. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z For instance, @_Cake_For_Every_Creature_ recently shared a cake made using black sesame seeds, cornflowers, and white nectarine slices; @Cakes4Sport combined a chocolate-sumac-cocoa cake, finished with orange curd and Aleppo pepper. Pandemic Baking Just Got Weirder 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The dress fabric, which can be dry-cleaned for use by future Lady Dunmores, was digitally printed with vines meandering through peonies, daylilies, carnations and cornflowers. Antiques: Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont as Impulse Buyer 2010-05-06T20:50:00Z At the entrance to the cemetery there are cornflower blue pitchers and they come here every week and fill those pitchers and water the flora on the grave. Mourning in Paris 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Some of my favorites include violas, zinnias, rose petals, cornflowers and flowering herbs. A 1-2-3 guide to building the perfect charcuterie board 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z After a quick briefing — pedal to go forward, stamp on this lever to stop — we set off, gliding past green meadows that were speckled with cornflowers and poppies. Lund, Sweden: Viking roots, off the beaten track 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z There were Baedekers and mackintosh squares, cornflowers, carriages, breathtaking kisses in barley fields. Why I'd like to be ... Julian Sands in A Room With a View 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z My freckles, blond hair, big white teeth and cornflower blue eyes made me a winner in the Apple Pie category. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Monochrome palettes with punctuated shades of grey were fused with burnt orange, ochre, cornflower blue and fuchsia to create clashing colour blocking effects. London designers celebrate return of grown-up glamour, easy elegance 2014-02-18T20:40:20Z Some packets of seeds contain two thousand potential lettuce leaves, golden wallflowers, or azure cornflowers. Seeds, the Gateway Drug to Gardening 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z After we exchanged our vows, we saw a red heart-shaped balloon floating in the cornflower sky. The other side of 'I do': how the weight of wedded bliss forever changed me 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Sold by the Cotswold Auction Company, it features scrolling foliage, Tudor Roses, cornflowers, daisies and fruit. Cheltenham: Elizabethan-era bible cover sells for £120,000 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The bright blue cornflower, for instance, assembles a large complex of six anthocyanins and six copigments arranged like spokes on a wheel around four metal ions. Rare blue dye faces risky path from rainforest to product 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Flower colors vary from deep cornflower blue to shocking pink, or a softer blue to delicate pink, depending on how acid the soil is. Hydrangea how-tos for 3 categories — and for big, beautiful blooms 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Or the indigo lines undulating gently down her arm on a cornflower background look like water. Meet the people who never stopped thinking ‘Avatar’ was cool 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Neutrals in sage, copper and white anchored the color palette, which exploded with accent pieces in cream-infused versions of seafoam green, cornflower blue, tangerine and flamingo pink. Fendi, Diesel open Milan Fashion Week with sense of renewal 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z With a frankly adorable Scottish accent and big cornflower blue eyes, she creates a character who is a total charmer. ‘See How They Run’ review: Saoirse Ronan charms in this mousetrap of a murder-mystery 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z A few years ago, Buchweitz tried to develop the cornflower blue as a colorant for the food industry, but it didn’t pan out. Rare blue dye faces risky path from rainforest to product 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Also known as cornflower, both the bloom and the color, the plant is considered a noxious weed by farmers when it shows up in grain fields — “corn” traditionally referred to all grains — contaminating the harvest. These true blue flowers bring a welcome cool and calm to gardens (and gardeners) 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z The chamomile, cornflowers, ferns, irises and rustling grasses of the fields. Review: The putrid waste of Ottessa Moshfegh's new novel, 'Lapvona' 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Burton's intimate view of Tutankhamun's outer coffin focuses on the garland of cornflowers and olives leaves adorning the young king's forehead. Archive sheds new light on Tutankhamun discovery, 100 years on 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s true, some recent experiments of this ilk from other purveyors aren’t all chardonnay and roses: A wine infused with marigold tastes thin and slightly vomitous; a cornflower tea is reminiscent of peat moss. For Today’s Cocktails and Tonics, Flowers Are So Much More Than a Garnish 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z In the extension, Creel and Scarani created an airy salon for gatherings; it features a large built-in banquette upholstered in cornflower blue paisley fabric by Lisa Fine, and ruby and cobalt pillows by Carolina Irving. A Tangier Home That Has Passed Between Design Legends 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z She added that the bees will come when the cornflowers bloom, in warmer, bluer months. The Perseverance of New York City’s Wildflowers 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Wegmeyer grows dozens of varieties of heirloom pumpkins in its sloping fields: You’ll find pumpkins in shades of delicate cornflower, bright sea foam, and, if you’re lucky, swirls of millennial pink and soft green. Fall can still be fun: Where to safely find pumpkins, festivals and frights 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Visitors between May and July should be able to see flowers including harebells, buttercups, poppies and cornflowers. Meadow set to change famous Cambridge view 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z There are also local wildflowers - trillium, dogtooth violets and cornflowers from ditches. This gran picked up roadkill to create an armchair 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z She said the "lovely wildflowers", including cornflowers and poppies, "looked wonderful" and they were "all taken down in their prime". Wildflowers cut down 'by mistake' 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Anthocyanins can change color depending on the acidity of a solution, so Willstätter proposed that roses had a different hue because the pH in their petals was lower than in cornflowers. Meet the blue crew, scientists trying to give food, flowers, and more a color rarely found in nature 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Modern Buckle in cornflower, lilac, and sunset; Leather Loops in cornflower and sunset. Apple releases new spring colors for Watch bands and iPhone cases 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Behind the glass of the picture window, cornflower blue wings flap slowly beneath the balloon of a muslin-covered zeppelin. How to restore a 40-year-old flying machine 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z A fluid caped dress that appears to be made from a single piece of weighty cornflower silk calls to mind Brancusi’s dictum, another favorite of Piccioli: Simplicity is complexity resolved. ‘A Dress Is Like a Passaporto, No?’ Welcome to Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z She made poppies out of paper for Remembrance Day while living in Africa, and sold the French equivalent of poppies, blue cornflowers, while living with her husband in France. Poppy seller to retire after 97 years 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Try it rolled in cornflower, salt and loads of pepper and deep fried. ‘I feel less stuffed after dinners – and less guilty’: why I stopped eating meat 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The young husky will lick salsa from my ankle while I watch football on TV and leer at me with her cornflower Siberian eyes. In the harvest season, life is in the kitchen. I could walk from house to house, stirring things 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z “This was very unexpected,” said O’Neal, dressed in a cornflower blue and yellow plaid suit. Lakers honor Shaq with high-flying statue outside arena 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z For instance, he wore a cornflower lapel pin — a symbol of German nationalism also used by the Nazis. Italian prime minister resigns in populist revolt 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Hofer, on occasion, still wears a lapel pin of a blue cornflower — a symbol of Germanic nationalism once used by the Nazis. How the far right is trying to woo an unlikely ally — Jews 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Beside an assortment of spray carnation, baby’s breath, cornflower and oxeye daisy is the caption: “Classified ‘Spare Parts’ deal. Capital, Diplomacy and Carnations 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z "What do you think about the Freedom Party and the cornflower?" The beautiful flower with an ugly past - BBC News 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Now I make it with cornflower and caramel.” Gravy wrestlers battle it out for world title 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Sherwin-Williams/KFC The New Beginnings Bucket will be targeted at men going through divorce and feature a large bucket of beige or cornflower blue paint nestled within a 12-piece meal with two sides. The McWhopper is dead, long live these other (fictional) corporate mashups 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “The original upholstery was a white cotton fabric embroidered in wool floss with carnations, roses and cornflowers embroidered in sprays.” Getty's 'Luxury and Liberation' spotlights French Revolution opulence 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Like poppies in England, the cornflowers symbolize World War I soldiers. 5 things about the Tour de France 6th stage 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z "You are not a neo-Nazi if you wear a cornflower," he continues. The beautiful flower with an ugly past - BBC News 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z As he rounded the corner he spotted a newly renovated apartment building glistening under a fresh, even coat of cornflower blue. A Son of Bushwick Turns the Neighborhood Into a Gallery for Street Art 2013-05-04T02:58:10Z Her nom de plume was Gul Makai, meaning cornflower in Pashto and the name of the heroine of many local folk stories. The Girl Who Changed Pakistan 2012-10-22T05:00:00Z Light-blue cr�pe de Chine with bunches of cornflowers for Columbine. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Thousands of blue cornflowers have been planted at Chemin des Dames, part of a string of battlefields where hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers died. 5 things about the Tour de France 6th stage 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z "The cornflower is simply the Freedom Party flower and we like it," he says. The beautiful flower with an ugly past - BBC News 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Showy varieties of blue and white campanulas, a pink mallow, a large blue geranium, chicory, the blue cornflower, and the scarlet poppy all grow among the crops. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z They were all crowned with cornflowers, and wore white robes with rose-coloured girdles. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z At each end, seated on pedestals turned slightly away from one another, two aristocratic bisque figures, a boy in delicate cerise and a girl in cornflower blue. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z With her broad, good-natured face and cornflower blue eyes she was a miniature Gretchen. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z She went to see the budding hawthorn and blue cornflowers behind the hedges on the hill-sides; she watched for the return of the swallows, from the little windows of the garret. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z Was he to turn aside from that to play at horticulture, look after the cornflowers and rear the poppies? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The tears streamed down her cheeks, as she saw the blue cornflowers fall before the reaper's scythe, when the grain was cut in harvest-time. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z Outside of this, successive rings of orange marigolds, purple asters, scarlet geraniums and candytuft, with a final fringe of blue cornflowers. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z I ran there for cornflowers; I mixed them with tall ears of rye, picking out the finest and most golden. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z "Dorothy has been turning white cheesecloth doll clothes into organdie muslins by stenciling on them these tiny sprays of roses and cornflowers and jasmine." Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z Praxedis stepped back, and stamped her foot on the blue cornflower. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Ears of corn and cornflowers, which are the Kaiser's Lieblingsblumen, were woven into the wreaths on one house. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z They were in pink satin with cornflowers and marguerites in their hair. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z They trudge through the clover as though it were mire and are sorry to find so few cornflowers in the rye. My Little Boy 2011-03-12T03:00:27.087Z The bouquets slowly changed colour, the cornflowers paled and the poppies grew black, in the darkening night; and something like profound melancholy would possess the lovers,--the sacred melancholy of happiness. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z "We New-Zealanders can afford to be a little cocky," said one of these bronzed fellows with eyes of cornflower blue. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z And the air seemed permeated by the scent of those aromatic forests, and those blossoming fields, adorned in virgin freshness by the blue cornflowers and that sweetest beauty of Spring,—the innocent violet. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z All the deserted fields about the line were a mass of poppies and cornflowers, and they hung over one in extravagant masses as one walked up the communication trench. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z And radiant with joy and pink with agitation, she raised to heaven her limpid eyes, that a moment before were veiled in sadness, but now shone sweetly, like a cornflower glistening in the morning dew. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z As to Colette, the pet child of the family, by turns charming and execrable, she counts seventeen summers, and rejoices our eyes with the sweetest face ever seen, a rose-bud complexion, and cornflower eyes. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z She wore the black straw hat with cornflowers and wheat woven about the crown. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Let's hear it for the red, white and cornflower. Monday Qualifier 2010-09-20T04:00:00Z Their food is Army rations, which are excellent, as I can testify after straitened England—supplemented by milk and fresh vegetables, while the Red Cross gives the extras of life such as custard, cornflower, etc. The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France Her blonde hair shone like gold in the sun; her eyes, bluer than the cornflower, reflected the sweetness of her angelic disposition. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Michael would enjoy holding in his hand a bunch of blue cornflowers; Stella would tear them to pieces, not irritably, but absently in a seclusion of spacious visions. Sinister Street, vol. 1 She wore the black hat with the sheaf of cornflowers and wheat about the crown, and her face, shadowed by the wide brim, had the pallor of ivory. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z I will bring you a bouquet of cornflowers, if they are still in bloom. The Children of the World Have a centerpiece of scarlet geraniums, poppies or nasturtiums, white geraniums, daisies, sweet peas and blue cornflowers. Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Plaques of real or imitation Delft may hang on the walls of the room, and bowls of blue cornflowers and white carnations may stand in window-seats and on shelves as well as on the dining-table. Gala Day Luncheons A Little Book of Suggestions When he speaks of a Zephyr you feel it is a Zephyr blowing, for instance, as when the ailing cornflower whispers to the breeze. An Outline of Russian Literature When he left the dining-hall his attention was arrested by a black straw hat with a sheaf of cornflowers and ripe yellow wheat about the crown. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z One felt one had never seen more vivid blue than that of the acres of cornflowers which rivalled the hues of the gentian of the Alps. The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire She was not twenty yards away, the arms of Bertrand Fauchet were reaching out to take her, when, pouf! the sniper barked again and Nanette went down like a pale cornflower before the reaper. Leerie The girl hesitated, and then took a cornflower from her little bouquet. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One In the back part of the room an easy sofa covered with cornflower blue velvet invited one to rest. The Golden Age in Transylvania Yes, Harrow has rather hard luck, and I wish I had mounted a cornflower; But blue doesn't suit me a bit; and why can't they change colours with seasons, These Teams? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 Blue cornflowers were scattered over the white transparent surface, and she possessed no more becoming frock. Ancestors A Novel To the left, where the old garden had once been, there was a glory of scarlet poppies and cornflowers growing amid the weeds. Madge Morton's Trust Godetia, nasturtium, love-in-a-mist, sweet-pea, cornflower, and larkspur seedlings can be transplanted when about two inches high, if you find you want them where they have not been sown. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes The oxen in front of the wagon came slowly along with wreaths of red clover and blue cornflowers round their horns, quite conscious of their finery. Absolution The lace curtains under the cornflower blue brocade were like Brussels wedding veils seen through a magnifying glass. Aurora the Magnificent Long-stemmed, slender cornflowers and bluebells held up their faces to the sun, blue as the sky above them. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia A true, rich, cornflower blue even by that wretched artificial light, with soft velvety depths of colour and dazzling clearness of tint in its lights and shades—a stone to remember! Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories Some seeds, such as cornflowers, godetias, and poppies, can be sown in the autumn. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes “Far out in the sea the water is as blue as the petals of the cornflower, and clear as the purest glass.” The Dust Flower Her eyes were blue, the soft, dark blue of the cornflower, and her face, a long, thin oval, was gentle and sweet in expression. With Hoops of Steel Consequently, she glanced but apathetically at Norma; she had seen the dotted blue swiss before, and the cornflower hat; she had seen Aunt Annie's French organdie; there was nothing there either to envy or admire. The Beloved Woman The Count, wringing his hands, gazed on a bunch of cornflowers tied round with grasses, which he had taken for a tuft of ostrich plumes in the maiden's hand. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Of these minerals the only species that furnishes a fine, deep velvety blue stone is the corundum, and fine specimens of the cornflower blue variety are very much in demand and command high prices. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public In each corner were grouped, in artistic showers, wild roses, yellow iris, cornflowers, and poppies, and the floor was entirely covered with a beautiful soft green moss. Nobody's Girl (En Famille) Sometimes there was a glint of topaz, or cornflower sapphire, gray agate; they were the most tantalizing eyes he had ever gazed into. The Pagan Madonna There was a smell of clover and cornflowers in the air, and great sheets of flaming poppies in the cornfields. The Wooden Horse They are so blue, such a clear light blue, the same as cornflowers with blue raindrops shining and dancing on silver leaves after a sun shower in any of the summer months.” Rootabaga Stories The "cornflower blue" seems to be most in favor at present. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Her skin was as dark as any Shawnee’s, but her eyes held the blue of the cornflower. A Virginia Scout The scarlet of the poppies ran into the blue of the cornflowers. Vixen, Volume II. The room became fragrant with the scent of wild hyacinths, ragged robins, cornflowers and daisies. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest She wishes to know if the Sicilian pea and the crimson cornflower are hardy flowers, or if they are delicate and should be sown in warm and sheltered situations. Emily Brontë "Ceylon sapphires" are usually paler than the cornflower blue. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Nevertheless, she played the part of innocence, making her cornflower eyes eloquent with apology. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Scarlet poppies, and cornflowers, and white daisies, and the red-tiled roofs and white walls of cottages, all against a background of glaucous green fields and hedges. One Man's Initiation—1917 And his eyes, as they wandered from the three pretty women to the cornflowers and the poppies in the wheat, were wet with smiling tears. The Gods are Athirst "Her eyes are cornflowers," proclaimed the istvostchik melodiously; "her lips are-" He was abreast of Waters as he broke off. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories There they procure pots and pans from the pansy bed, a goose from the gooseberry bush, a chick from the chickweed, corn from the cornflower, and eat on a box from the boxwood hedge. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's When she's been married three times," the cornflower eyes became suddenly innocent, "she knows everything.—Will you touch the bell? The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Elinor's last suggestion that the daughter might resemble her mother had been taken literally, and all these moments Ross's search had been for a tiny, dainty bit of a girl with cornflower eyes. The Heart of Arethusa Under a cloudless sky, Maximilien heads the procession of his colleagues in a blue coat and yellow breeches, carrying in his hand a bouquet of wheatears, cornflowers and poppies. The Gods are Athirst She had taken off her hat, of broad-brimmed straw with artificial poppies and cornflowers, and swung it in her hand as she came. Shining Ferry I returned home, but the image of poor Akulina did not leave my mind for a long time, and the cornflowers, long withered, are in my possession to this day. The Rendezvous 1907 A pale woman of spun silk and gossamer, with cornflower eyes and lips like parted poppy-petals! The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel The eyes of both children were blue, as blue as cornflowers, and their hair very light, the boy's curling in tight rings but the girl's straight and bobbed. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman "I can tell you," answered a small, sharp voice, as a long brass pin tried to straighten itself up in the middle of a faded blue cornflower, evidently prepared to address the meeting. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. The khaki of the British mingled with the cornflower blue of the French. Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive Annuals.—African daisy, ageratum, aster, calendula, calliopsis, balsam, candytuft, cornflower, cosmos, marigold, mignonette, nasturtium, petunia, poppy, stock, sweet alyssum, sweet-pea, verbena, zinnia, annual phlox, red sunflower, cut-and-come-again sunflower. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools He didn't want to be at enmity with anybody, least of all with this dainty sprite of a woman with the cornflower eyes and the flaxen hair. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Nasturtiums, asters, cosmos, snapdragon, stock, late-blooming cornflowers—up they all come, all the annuals, and the biennials that have had their season. More Jonathan Papers Gay lackeys also, in blue and red, passed among the crowd, looking like poppies and cornflowers blown about by the wind. The Queen's Necklace Arithelli had arrayed herself in the cornflower blue frock, which she carried with a negligent ease, and she still wore the Panama hat with the flowing veil. The Hippodrome While the ranks of red and the ranks of blue In mingled swathes are shorn; As the poppies nigh to the cornflowers lie, At the reaping of the corn. The Drummer's Coat There was a cartwheel of a Leghorn hat in it, wreathed with cornflowers; another hat of white tulle trimmed with a single waterlily, and a queer little bonnet made of forget-me-nots. The Heather-Moon Clean towels served for tablecloths, flowers—tiger-lilies, snapdragons, pinks, poppies, roses, and cornflowers rioted in colour over the rim of a looted vase. The Red Horizon I could see nothing—only great ridges of hills with the Forest like gigantic torrents of green water under the mist, and just at my feet cornfields thick with cornflowers. The Dark Forest Poppies, cornflowers, lilies, tulips whose colours are those of the rainbow. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I One sees many marigolds and cornflowers and poppies. Swirling Waters A cornflower, too, flowered in another field, quite a treasure to find where these beautiful blue flowers are so scarce. Nature Near London That night we took the little vase with its poppies, cornflowers, pinks, and roses, and placed them on the black, cold earth which covered Erney, the clean-limbed, good-hearted boy. The Red Horizon Three tittering young women, each wearing a hat in which roses, violets, poppies, cornflowers, forget-me-nots, feathers and ribbons ran riot, confronted me. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) And there all day, lying amongst the poppies and cornflowers, we watched the fight of the hour—the struggle around Fricourt Wood and the attack on the village of La Boiselle. Letters from France To the east, beyond the walk, is another picture—Shasta daisies and blue cornflowers. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The back is divided into four panels, containing respectively a cornflower, a pomegranate, a fruit, perhaps meant for an apple, and a honeysuckle, all conventionally treated and very delicately worked. English Embroidered Bookbindings Centaurea or cornflower, the bachelor's button or ragged sailor of old gardens, is in the front rank of the worthies. The Garden, You, and I I want her tall, hair like corn-silk, eyes like the cornflower, of brilliant intellect, reserved, and dignified, and patient. The Princess Elopes It is a garden of poppies, cornflowers, and mustard flower now. Letters from France The cornflowers showed their little blue heads among the rye, and the women wanted to pick them, but Monsieur Rivet refused to stop. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 It is divided into five panels, within each of which is a conventional flower, a cornflower alternating with a carnation, and the colours of all of these are marvellously fresh and effective. English Embroidered Bookbindings For His Altar I received, in abundance, all the flowers I loved best: cornflowers, poppies, marguerites—one little friend only was missing, the purple vetch. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse "I also saw the Honourable Pamela Puntah, attended by a gorgeous creation in tangerine orange and cornflower blue, with hat and handkerchief to match." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920 In the farmhouse were only two young girls, the elder a charming golden-haired fairy with tender eyes of cornflower blue. With Steyn and De Wet The chintz had a cornflower design that repeated all these colors. The House in Good Taste The centre flower is a carnation, round it are pansy, rose, cornflower, and strawberry, while between them are a caterpillar, snail, butterfly, and moth. English Embroidered Bookbindings So in cornfields we have the scarlet poppies, the purple corn-cockle, the yellow corn-marygold, and the blue cornflower; while on our moors the purple heath and the dwarf gorse make a gorgeous contrast. Darwinism (1889) He was wearing a bright blue tie and a cornflower in his buttonhole, and his sandy hair was sleekly brushed. His Family Big cornflowers balanced aloft their light blue caps which looked as if they would fly away at every breath of air. Abbe Mouret's Transgression For instance, I decorated a room in soft cream, gray, yellow and cornflower blue. The House in Good Taste The back is divided into four panels, containing a cornflower, rose, pansy, and strawberry, worked exactly in the same way as their prototypes on the sides. English Embroidered Bookbindings The daisies and the clover and the cornflowers and the wild roses seemed to be waving a welcome to me and the thorn trees—shapely ornament of my native hills—were in blossom. The Light in the Clearing He stands for hours looking at a flower or moss, throws himself down on the grass and decks his hat with ivy and cornflowers. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The plants that grow best are jalaps, sunflowers, roses, cornflowers, nasturtiums, verbenas, and geraniums, all of which, with the exception of the two first-named plants, require water constantly. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore I painted the furniture a very soft gray, and then painted little garlands of cornflowers in soft blues and gray-greens on each piece of furniture. The House in Good Taste Blue as lupin or larkspur, or cornflower—aye, and even so blue art thou, my scriven, to think how far the written page falls short of the bright ecstasy of thy dream! Mince Pie "Yes," she said to her fiancé, "and we are going to carry bouquets of wheat and cornflowers." The Rocks of Valpre I have mentioned some already for your garden:—Canterbury bell, cornflower and foxglove are biennials. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. The cornflowers in the flower border are already in bud, and I am told that this is the temptation to which goldfinches most easily yield. The Pleasures of Ignorance On the walls hung portraits of bishops, a view of the Svyatogorsky Monastery, and wreaths of dried cornflowers. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories Suzee now chose an enormous white hat wreathed round with poppies and cornflowers that I certainly should not have chosen for her. Five Nights This was tied at the back with a huge bow, which seemed perched upon its wearer like a gigantic butterfly alighting on a cornflower. Kimono Presently she looked up from an experimental arrangement of her cornflowers, and discovered Lewisham, no longer reading, but staring blankly at the middle of the table-cloth, with an extraordinary misery in his eyes. Love and Mr. Lewisham I should have a garden blue with cornflowers, if I were sure that this would entice the seven colours of the goldfinch to make their home in it. The Pleasures of Ignorance The beds and borders crammed with cloves and many-coloured asters, the sweet blue of the cornflower, and the little lobelias. A Cotswold Village Martha wore her Sunday dress of two shades of purple, so tight in the chest that it made her stoop, and her blue hat with the pink cornflowers and white ribbon. Five Children and It It was a young girl in a white ball-gown, with a cluster of blue cornflowers at her breast. Mr. Standfast She forgot the cornflowers and stared at him. Love and Mr. Lewisham ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. Main Street I showed her everything from the imported Limoges bowls to the Sevres cups and saucers, and all she bought was that miserable little bonbon dish with the cornflower pattern. Fanny Herself CORNFLOWERS, you say, just cornflowers, gemming the golden grain; Ah no! Rhymes of a Red Cross Man She came back with three blue cotton cornflowers out of Elsa's hat, and the gap in the bodice was hidden. The Happy Foreigner He stared at her for a moment—her head was a little on one side and her eyes on the cornflower—and his mind was full of a strange discovery. Love and Mr. Lewisham He crossed the hall with half an eye to its quiet tones and bowls of roses, and entered a room of bright chintz with a pattern of cornflowers, and full of sunlight. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Penfield took the cornflower and envelope from the deputy coroner and laid them carefully on his desk, while continuing his examination. I Spy Siegmund came bareheaded, his black hair ruffling to the wind, his eyes shining warmer than the sea-like cornflowers rather, his limbs swinging backward and forward like the water. The Trespasser "A beautiful child lay on the ground at some distance, whilst a young girl, resting from the labour of reaping, was twisting a rustic wreath of enamelled cornflowers, brilliant poppies … round its hat." The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson In two feet of human life, with kerchief tied under chin, the small hands carrying a huge bunch of cornflowers, how much of great gravity there may be! In and out of Three Normady Inns Mary, warm-cheeked in the sun, and wearing a broad- brimmed hat and a pair of gardening gloves, was thinning out a clump of cornflowers. The Nest Builder In answer Mitchell raised the cover and displayed a bouquet of faded cornflowers. I Spy "It should hang over our Lord," said the little one, holding, in an embarrassed manner, the garland of pretty blue cornflowers in her hand. O. T. a Danish Romance He laid on a chair with his hat a bunch of cornflowers and a packet carefully done up in a handkerchief. The Precipice They wore white lace over pink satin, with daisies and blue cornflowers in their hair. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 It was his little daughter sitting amidst the hay, with the great, tawny head of Patrasche on her lap, and many wreaths of poppies and blue cornflowers round them both. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 More interested in his note which accompanied his gift, she had at first taken them for violets, but looking more closely at the corsage bouquet she found it contained cornflowers. I Spy The cornflowers and daisies on the Hour's dress are alone a perennial joy. A Wanderer in Florence But he could not suppress a yawn, watched the birds, the dragon-flies, picked the cornflowers, looked curiously at the peasants, and gazed up at the sky over-arching the wide horizon. The Precipice It was made with a long straight skirt slightly high at the waist, round neck and elbow sleeves and with it went soft, wrinkly gloves and a wide hat trimmed with cornflowers. Up the Hill and Over They looked like a full-blown garden when they approached the Baron's chair, for they were covered with garlands of poppies, ivy and cornflowers. Maezli A Story of the Swiss Valleys Back to Kathleen's memory came a vision of waving wheat in a field on the outskirts of Berlin and scattered among the grain grew the cornflower—Kaiser blumen. I Spy But this place being open was full of flowers, such lovely azure cornflowers which the people call bluebottles. The Open Air The flowers of "La Primavera's" crown are blue and white cornflowers and primroses. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Dan told me you had cornflowers on your hat," he said quizzically, "and I, knowing that Dan calls all blue flowers cornflowers, picked you out right away. Betty Gordon in Washington The children used to gather large nosegays of poppies and cornflowers, and little pinky convolvuli. Esther : a book for girls Here and there, too, it is sprinkled with tiny dots of red, where the poppies grow thick in a field, and there are spots that are almost blue with cornflowers. The Wagner Story Book And those that are alive now—there will be cuckoos calling, and the eggs in the thrushes' nests, and blackbirds whistling, and blue cornflowers, a thousand years after every one of them is gone. The Open Air In the hedgerows were blue cornflowers and poppies in all colors from carmine to orange that danced in the wind on their wiry stalks. Three Soldiers She wore a pretty robe a fleurs, and her straw hat was trimmed with tremulous grasses and cornflowers. Celibates The harvest is half over already all round us; and so pure, that not a poppy or cornflower is to be seen. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Sally and the children gathered nasturtiums and cornflowers and ferns for the house. The Story of Julia Page "To take you and your mother to the jeweler's to choose the sapphire cornflower I promised you at Roncieres." Strong as Death And she had cornflowers in her belt: heaven knows where she had got them. Aaron's Rod But these were thick silk stockings, vermilion, cornflower blue, and grey, bought in Paris. Women in Love I saw a little way ahead a brown and crimson butterfly perched upon a cornflower. In the Days of the Comet She wore a lace shawl over a brown silk dress, and a net bonnet set with a few blue cornflowers. Desperate Remedies "The cornflower," said she, "it is so pretty." Strong as Death Antonia, in a sunny angle of the old brick wall, amid the pinks and poppies and cornflowers, was humming to herself. The Island Pharisees O, her eyes are blue as cornflowers, mid the corn, And her cheeks are rosy red as skies of morn! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 In one corner a woman was bending over a cradle, and the whole stubble was studded with sheaves and cornflowers. Childhood A true, rich, cornflower blue even by that wretched artificial light, with soft velvety depths of color and dazzling clearness of tint in its lights and shades—a stone to remember! The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English "In stones of the same color; in rubies if it is the poppy; in sapphires if it is the cornflower, with a little leaf in emeralds." Strong as Death Women headed the procession—the younger ones dressed in white, with veils and chaplets of roses, blue cornflower, and pheasant’s eye Narcissus, while the older women were more soberly attired. Erewhon Revisited From the trim little hat, with its white band and jaunty bunch of cornflowers, to the well-shaped patent shoes, she was neatly and daintily dressed. A Millionaire of Yesterday The rails are rails of rust, and cornflowers and mustard and tall grasses grow amidst the ballast. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Corn-flowers at one side uncle, which is less common than cornflowers in front. Man and Wife The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets |
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