英语词汇“hollyhock”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

As we rode past the old barn, weathered gray and leaning into a clump of hollyhocks and daisies, I pointed toward the shed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

You have to bend under a wild arch of cosmos when you come up the walk, and use your whole right arm to push the hollyhocks aside to get in the front door. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All hollyhocks and wee folk skipping in the barley and ain’t it like what Plossitossitus says about the return of spring.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Home is a house in a photograph, a pink house, pink as hollyhocks with lots of startled light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie Oakley always made hers very homey, with a garden outside of primrose, geranium, and hollyhock. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In dreamier moments, I’d thought I might use it to stake up some hollyhocks come spring. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were also hollyhocks and oleander bushes with pink and white flowers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth and dusty hollyhocks thick and perfumy like the blue-blond hair of the dead. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found some slick little trails out in our garden down under some tall hollyhocks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are thin brown girls who have looked long at hollyhocks in the backyards of Meridian, Mobile, Aiken, and Baton Rouge. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We left her by her withered hollyhocks and sought onward. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And like hollyhocks they are narrow, tall, and still. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he read the word hollyhock aloud with his finger on the word, she saw that it was long, with many lines like tall stems. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end of another sentence...hollyhocks like distilled sunsets and larkspur like concentrate of heaven. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, the 900-strong population live in yellow houses on cobbled streets lined with hollyhocks, looking and feeling very much like something out of a fairytale. Boats and beach huts: a family holiday on Denmark’s Ærø island 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

The setting agent As the name suggests, the first marshmallows were set with the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow plant, which McGee describes as “the weedy relative of the hollyhock”. How to cook the perfect marshmallow 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Towers of hollyhock animate one corner with their showy hot-pink-and-white blossoms. A Designer Who Makes Impossibly Lifelike Flowers From Everyday Materials 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

The artist sometimes adapted his natural surroundings in Windham to improve his compositions on canvas, shifting hill contours and adding hollyhocks and other plants. Solving the Mystery of Ancient Ink Origins 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

An early adopter of building with reinforced concrete, Wright employed it here for the exterior’s hollyhock motifs and even for the front door, which is the only concrete door I’ve ever seen. Cultured Traveler: California Houses as Celebrities in Themselves 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z

Wright used abstracted iterations of the hollyhock, Barnsdall’s favorite flowering plant, throughout the exterior and interior, and even in furniture and textiles. An Insider’s Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

The collection was festive in its mix of colors like iris purple, hollyhock yellow and a nowhere-in-nature turquoise. Special Report: Haute Couture: Dior Blooms Brightly 2010-07-05T17:53:00Z

Norgren is happiest, though, when tending the garden, which in full bloom teems with honeysuckle, sweet peas, dahlias and hollyhocks that she transplanted from the nearby open fields. A Swedish Design Duo’s Eclectic 18th-Century Apartment 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

His furniture designs for the house were also among his most innovative, especially the tall, elegant chair backs — abstract designs based on hollyhocks. Cultured Traveler: California Houses as Celebrities in Themselves 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z

More than 20 galleries line the streets, and graceful hollyhocks brighten corner gardens. New Mexico’s Silver City — just the ticket for a 25th wedding anniversary 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cameron is unpredictable even down to his description of a little yard: “It was overcrowded with hollyhocks and lilies and all the other tiresome flowers expected in an English garden.” New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z

As we cycled down tiny lanes planted with hollyhocks, I wondered what Napoleon, the proud Corsican islander, thought of these idyllic surroundings during the final days of his political reign. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Lytton rang the bell at number 43 and they waited: a semi-detached Edwardian villa with hollyhocks and a tiled porch and stained glass, linen blinds pulled down in the front room. Literary pseudonym quiz: whodunnit? 2013-07-24T15:42:05Z

Animals may raid my flower beds; a storm may knock down a freshly planted hollyhock. Perspective | During the season of resolutions, a vow to appreciate trees all year 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The pollen grains of various common plants like sunflower, morning glories, prairie hollyhock, oriental lily, evening primrose and castor bean — magnified 500 times and colorized in this image — display intricate patterns. Why does nature create patterns? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Along the way, he met Barnsdall, a philanthropist, theater producer, political progressive, world traveler and lover of the hollyhock flower. Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House will soon reopen to the public 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

The cottages are painted in bold, bright hues and come with kitchens that look out on the hollyhocks, roses, lilacs, herbs, benches and lawn chairs in this leafy paradise. Stay off the beaten path this summer at these 8 unique Pacific Northwest locales 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

A cousin of the hibiscus, hollyhock and okra, cotton is an ancient, shrubby plant that produces ruffled flowers ranging from pale yellow to pink. Sanctions on China’s top cotton supplier weave a tangled web for fashion brands 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

She cultivated roses, dahlias, hollyhocks and foxgloves; wrote several gardening books as well as a gardening column for the London Evening Standard; and frequently hosted outdoor parties. Felicity Bryan, British literary agent who spearheaded journalism fellowship, dies at 74 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

It’s all because the city is nearing completion of its virtual tour of the house with a hollyhock motif and a Maya-temple style that Wright built for avant-garde oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, starting in 1919. Want to see more of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House? Now you can 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

In the first class, you’ll learn how to recreate a beautiful cottage with watercolors and pastels, then learn how to paint hollyhocks, the quintessential cottage flower, in the next class. From Salon Marketplace: Learn to paint like a pro for less than $30 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

The bodies arrived at a large compound that is used as the crematory, its garden lined with hollyhock flowers. Bomb Rattles an Afghan Minority So Small ‘No One Is a Stranger’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

But the marigolds were a vibrant orange-and-yellow, and the pink hollyhocks hung from their stems like the bells of a trumpet. Gardener keeps up Peru spot known as Cole Porter inspiration 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

Instead, continue on around as the road passes a green lawn on the left, bordered by hollyhocks, and shows off views from Hollywood to Century City on the right. This great L.A. walk takes in architectural gems, and fine city views 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

In one famous picture, the Beatles are posing among my grandad’s prize hollyhocks. ‘We were just knocking about in the park. Then the Beatles turned up’ 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

“I wish you would plant hollyhocks,” I say. How does my garden grow? In a lot of shade and with not a lot of help from me. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

She wants a bouquet of hollyhocks and marigolds. Watering silk flowers : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Those cottages, uniformly adorned with cheerful green-painted shutters and framed by bright hollyhocks and lavender, were mostly built in the 19th century, well after Île de Ré was of any strategic importance. The True Heart of French Seaside Chic 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

“She gives the surface of something as banal as fragile hollyhocks the same texture Monet lavished on the Rouen Cathedral at high noon,” he wrote, referring to one of Ms. Foss’s beach scenes. Following a Musical Thread That Ties One Life Together 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The project included her own 5,000-square-foot residence, named for its ornamental tributes to her favorite flower, the hollyhock. The Hollyhock House Comes Into Its Own 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

This year Ruth planted some foxglove, which is kind of a poor man’s hollyhock. How does my garden grow? In a lot of shade and with not a lot of help from me. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Lacey is a pink hollyhock now, of which her daughters seem cuttings, and her hat is a sort of pink straw k�pi, trimmed with flowers that resemble virginia stock. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z

The blossoms are beautiful, delicate things, more beautiful than most of the hollyhocks. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z

There were pink hollyhock blossoms in the bright brown of her hair. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z

The ordinary hollyhock is single-blossomed, but the florists’ varieties have all double flowers, of white, yellow, rose, purple, violet and other tints, some being almost black. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

Althaea rosea.—The hollyhock is a noble perennial, 6 to 15 ft. high, with flowers of every colour except blue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z

But--for peaches are not peace, nor hollyhocks either--its owner passed through it with compressed lips and tingling cheeks. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z

The flowers are said to be perfectly double, resembling in form a double hollyhock, color deep orange, shaded and streaked with crimson. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z

He lost his head, danced with her five times, and carried away a crumpled hollyhock bloom that had fallen from her hair during the last Lancers, through which he had watched her. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z

Some of the finest double-flowered kinds of hollyhock do not bloom well in Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

Thus we observe roses, hollyhocks, chrysanthemums, and tulips in all shades of white, yellow, pink, red, and crimson, even almost approaching black, and numberless combinations of these colors, but never blue. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z

But above all, the giant hollyhocks, one on each side of a little brown door, whose little latticed porch was arched with clematis, silvery as if moonlight "Minatrost" were ever brooding upon that threshold. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z

In early spring the graceful sprays of the Sidalcea bend over our meadows everywhere, making them bright with their pink blossoms, which the children call "wild hollyhocks." The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z

It was not till, alone again at his hotel, he pulled out the hollyhock flower with his ball programme that he awoke to a complete sense of the insipid flatness of the new situation. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z

The wild flowers about Ali-kuh are in great profusion just now, the most showy being hollyhocks—white, pink, and mauve, which affect the cultivated lands. 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

This seclusion can be got by judicious screening of parts, by shrubberies, or avenues of hazel, or yew, or sweet-scented bay, with perhaps clusters of lilies and hollyhocks, or dwarf Alpine plants and trailers between. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z

These cottages are surrounded with little gardens, in which there are various kinds of European plants, such as the hollyhock, hibiscus, larkspur, balsam, &c. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z

It is a great satisfaction sometimes to find a bee overtaken by intoxication and night within a water lily or hollyhock, his obtrusive good example smothered sweetly. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z

I like to sit a long time by the hollyhocks watching the throng of varied bees which poise and hesitate outside the wild flowers, then swing in with a hum which sets everything aquiver. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z

When skies are blue and days are bright A kitchen-garden's my delight, Set round with rows of decent box And blowsy girls of hollyhocks. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z

What is more charming than the effect of hollyhocks, peonies, poppies, tritomas, and tulips seen against a yew hedge? Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z

Hollyhock, hollyhock, bend for me; I need a cheese for my dolly's tea. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z

Could an orchid and a hollyhock be one and the same? What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z

He appeared to belong to the place as much as the hollyhocks and honeysuckle; and yet, how could that be? Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z

Honeysuckles, hollyhocks, Bachelor's buttons, four-o'clocks, Marigolds and blue-eyed grass Curtsied when the maid did pass. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z

The hollyhocks had opened flares of color under the living-room window. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z

Here they seated themselves and were served with delicate ice-cream hollyhocks upon golden saucers by Twinkle and Scollops. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z

The breath of autumn was in the air, but the hollyhocks and gladioli still flaunted their gay colours, as though they refused to own that summer had ended. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z

In the walks Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the mouldering flowers, Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly, Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z

Behind the manse box-hedges mark the bound And close the garden in, or nearly close, For on beyond the hollyhocks an olden orchard grows. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z

The tallest hollyhocks scarcely moved, so quiet was the night. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z

She was still standin' in the door and, in spite of the wistaria and the hollyhocks and the green summer stuff everywheres, the whole picture was pretty forlorn. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z

Bubble-like the hollyhocks Budded, burst and flaunted wide Gypsy beauty from their stocks. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z

Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly, Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.—Tennyson. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z

We have a splendid garden, there Are lots of flowers everywhere; Roses, and pinks, and four o'clocks, And hollyhocks, and evening stocks. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z

Low-growing zinnias in futuristic colors, high phlox in pastel colors; higher, Canterbury bells, deep blue; highest of all, hollyhocks, wine red. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z

In this district also such flowers as herbaceous paeonies, Spanish irises, German irises, Christmas roses, lilies of the valley, chrysanthemums, foxgloves, hollyhocks, wallflowers, carnations, &c., are extensively grown in many market gardens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z

As tall as the lily, as tall as the rose, And almost as tall as the hollyhocks, Ranked breast to breast in sentinel rows Stand the gladiola stocks. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z

Trim borders of familiar things blossom within their box-hedges before the entrance, and at this autumn hour fat dahlias, spiring hollyhocks, and rainbows of asters and pansies wind a girdle beneath the walls. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z

Bushes of hollyhocks, white 87 peonies and many old-time posies grew in a riotous hedge around it. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z

I think hollyhocks are the most decorative of all flowers. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z

A row of stately hollyhocks separated the flower garden from the vegetables. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z

In one place there were stalks of pink hollyhock and poles covered with vines, and in the windows above were scarlet geraniums. A Canterbury Pilgrimage 2011-06-13T02:00:24.520Z

Tall hollyhocks lifted their flowers to smile in at the old-fashioned windows. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z

Oh! it is little Margery who has a garden-bed, Wherein grow purple pansies and geraniums white and red, With feverfew and dahlias, and delicate pink phlox, And grandmother's fair favorites, old-fashioned hollyhocks. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z

“That is what we started after,” said Montmorency Shannon, his red head sticking out of the barrel like a full-blown hollyhock. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z

He did the same by the flower of a hollyhock, the only kind of flower remaining, which plant I knew for certain dated its existence from the time of Goethe. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z

The garden path, leading to the porch, was straight and narrow; on either side rose alternately cabbage-rose trees and hollyhocks. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z

Only the vines that still clamber over the porch, and a few hollyhocks that stubbornly refuse to die, remain to suggest the dooryard where the garden flowers used to “fairly run mad with color.” The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z

Where were ever seen such radiant, waving poppies, such hundred-hued pansies, such stately and brilliant hollyhocks, and such fragrant sweet peas? Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z

The bees were humming in this garden all luncheon-time, and yellow butterflies shot backwards and forwards in the sunshine: tall hollyhocks flowered gorgeously in the prim beds, and threw straight shadows on the grass. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z

There were arches of evergreens and artificial flowers of paper, among which were very tolerable hollyhocks, though the roses were startling. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z

She remembered, with a singular and most unnerving accuracy, the silent vigils which she had spent, half hidden amongst those tall hollyhocks. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z

A small enclosure, with three hollyhocks in a raised mound in the centre, and a luxurious crop of nettles around, served as garden: a narrow path of very rough shingle conducted to the door. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z

And then into the garden among the sunflowers and hollyhocks and columbine and larkspur and heartsease and the riot of June roses, common enough, yet gay and sweet as the rarest. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z

The hills and the burn and the peeweets remained the same, the high hollyhocks flaunted themselves against the grey garden wall; nothing was changed—and yet everything was different. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z

Above this, and reaching to the small beams, were four panels of stretched cloth, decorated with designs of smooth felt representing irises, hollyhocks, verbena, and gladioli. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z

Look at them—my tall hollyhocks, my bush roses, my snapdragon there. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z

The building was small and one walked up to the front door through two long rows of hollyhocks. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure 2011-01-13T03:01:17.050Z

He also tells us of the gardens with "their pleasant, familiar flowers, lavender, hollyhocks, and satin." Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z

He was about to dismount when a shadow detached itself from the gloom of the garden—the garden, with its flaming hollyhocks. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z

And in the summer a long line of hollyhocks, pink, white and red, and red and white, waved, tall and straight, at one side of the house. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z

Sunflowers and hollyhocks bloomed in the villagers' gardens--the whole picture breathed forth a faint prescience of autumn, a promise of harvest and enjoyment of the fruits of the earth. The Undying Past

On either side of the hollyhock sentinels the earth was a thick carpet of flowers, and the little house seemed to rise out of its own flower beds. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure 2011-01-13T03:01:17.050Z

A storm blew the hollyhocks down, and there were canker-worms in the roses. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame

And Anne Stafford sent on some hollyhock seeds culled from Emerson's garden. The Jonathan Papers

The Angel stared at the Vicar's hollyhocks and thought. The Wonderful Visit

However, there was traceable the foundations of new buildings to complete the quadrangle, and a mass of crimson hollyhocks were shining with rubied chalices in the quiet sunlight. Sinister Street, vol. 1

He is pondering with eyes Full of four-year-old surmise Two great hollyhocks that sway This way, that way, Till they almost touch his cheek. Mice & Other Poems

Standing between the tall stalks of the hollyhocks, he held his watch up to the moon. The Key to Yesterday

As chance would have it, his eyes rested on a little house from which came no sound of song or music, and which was overhung with exquisite roses, while tall hollyhocks nodded over the garden-fence. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II

A wide-spreading old-fashioned garden, with rose bushes, and gooseberry bushes, currant bushes, sunflowers, and hollyhocks, and big gnarled old apple trees, mixed up in picturesque confusion. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir

They were created for ease and luxury, just as the hollyhock is made to bloom against the sunny garden wall. Nancy of Paradise Cottage

The tall white hollyhock would be a patient sentinel all night while its dark sister slept invisible. The New Gulliver and Other Stories

In this inclosure, also, the hollyhock and sunflower, rival coxcombs of the vegetable community, gave their broad and garish tribute to the beautifying of the spot. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency

In the centre of the yard are masses of hollyhocks, marigolds, nasturtiums, and stocks. The Unveiling of Lhasa

"Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger lily." Faith and Unfaith

The powdery crystal and crimson of your hollow hollyhocks; Your fairy-bells and poppies and the bee that in them rocks. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue

Later, tall hollyhocks, lavish sunflowers, crowded Michaelmas daisies, added their reproach. The New Gulliver and Other Stories

Should I not care when Constance there,— My Constance, with the bashful gaze, Pink-gowned like some sweet hollyhock,— If I declare my love, just says Some careless thing as if in mock? Shapes and Shadows

On the roof are garden flowers in pots, hollyhocks, and marigolds. The Unveiling of Lhasa

The gladioli and hollyhocks made a brave show amid the humbler sweet-williams and marigolds, but they would have to be left. Windyridge

When Constance Grant came back with the coffee, she found Mr Guillemot alone looking out of the window at the sunflowers and the hollyhocks. Man and Maid

California swung down the wooden pavements, audibly criticising the housewives' hollyhocks and the more perfect ways of pear-grafting, and, as the young men and maidens passed, giving quaint stories of his youth. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel

We walked out into the garden, which was especially noticeable for those flowers which have always been called old-fashioned—I mean hollyhocks, sweet-william, snapdragons, and Canterbury bells, which were laid out in regular beds. The Last Generation A Story of the Future

In the courtyard there is a border of hollyhocks and snapdragon and asters. The Unveiling of Lhasa

The aged poet, then numbering seventy-six years, "but of a florid, fair old age," showed the visitors his household portraits, his hollyhocks, and his fuchsias. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

And then a tall row of hollyhocks in all colors, or great sunflowers with their buds stretching out of close coverts. Helen Grant's Schooldays

She has seeds for her kitchen garden, also sweet peas, mignonette, sunflowers, hollyhocks, and pansies. Seeds of Pine

Lethierry allowed her to soil her fingers a little in gardening, and even in some kind of household duties: she watered her beds of pink hollyhocks, purple foxgloves, perennial phloxes, and scarlet herb bennets. Toilers of the Sea

There was nothing picturesque except the marigolds and hollyhocks in pots and the doves and singing-birds in wicker cages. The Unveiling of Lhasa

The hollyhock was all pervasive, running wild in deserts; the dock was common, and the bending reed; and overshadowing these were poplar, palm, potato tree, and Quercus Skeltica—brave growths. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time

There was the infallible sense of ended summer, even at noonday; and the dahlias and hollyhocks, dripping in the morning mist, seemed to be weeping for it. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl

At five minutes of seven she picked up her knitting and sat resolutely down between her aunts on the hollyhock porch. Happy House

And she shook her locks at the morning-star And her raiment scattered wide; Low laughed at a hollyhock's scimetar, Its jewels of buds to deride. Blooms of the Berry

Before the wind, with rain-drowned stocks, The pleated crimson hollyhocks Are bending; And, smouldering in the breaking brown, Above the hills that edge the town, The day is ending. Undertones

And so went beside me slowly up the garden-walk, his hands clasped behind him, stopping to look now and then at his favorite purple and crimson hollyhocks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864

"What more would it be?—a hollyhock, perhaps? or a rhododendron, eh?" Portia or By Passions Rocked

Avoiding the living room and the hollyhock porch, Nancy sought out B'lindy and begged a little lunch. Happy House

The violets are dead; Dead the tall hollyhocks, That hang like rags on the wind-crushed flags, And the lilies' livid stocks. Blooms of the Berry

One window, a west one, had hollyhocks looking in, and the door to the north gave out on the cool, shady grass. The "Genius"

She was dressed in the hollyhock fashion of country girls of those days, with an exuberance of bright colors, but which Shorty thought the hight of refined fashion. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys

Not in vain did I wait, departed Summer, this morning mocks; 'Mid the powdery crystal and crimson Of your hollow hollyhocks; Your fairy-bells and poppies, And the bee that in them rocks. Days and Dreams Poems

Each day, when she did not go to the orchard, she spent in the sitting room or on the hollyhock porch, knitting and helping in little household tasks. Happy House

It grew tall hollyhocks, neatly cut hedges, and a riot of old rose bushes. Madge Morton's Trust

The white banner of Iyeyasu was embroidered with hollyhocks, his standard a golden fan. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality

Big as your fist, red as a hollyhock, fragrant as a rose, and firm and juicy. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys

Both lacks were partially concealed by vines which climbed over its sagging porch, and tall rows of hollyhocks, generously screening with their showy beauty its weather-beaten sides. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted

From the swing on the hollyhock porch she had spied Mrs. Eaton coming up the flagged path to the front door. Happy House

The lady who kept the school was very fond of flowers, and above all she loved the stately hollyhocks. Stories Pictures Tell Book Four

There, too, were the yearly hollyhocks and morning-glories blooming about the windows. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings

"I used to think a sight of hollyhock cheese when I was a youngster." The Wooing of Calvin Parks

Snapdragon, wallflower, pansies, and hollyhocks are very easily grown from seed. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes

The low thatched roof—the bright square-paned little windows—the porch overgrown with clematis, jessamine, and honeysuckle—the garden, where gooseberry bushes and stately hollyhocks grow side by side. Ellen Middleton—A Tale

Very soon the girls on Rosa's side drove their enemies toward the hollyhock bed, where they turned and fled. Stories Pictures Tell Book Four

Without a substratum of sincerity, no man can speak right on, but runs astray into a kind of phraseology which bears the same relation to elegant language that the hollyhock does to the rose.” Talkers With Illustrations

The stone wall of the barnyard was almost hidden by the hollyhocks; they were a pretty sight, Mary thought; she did admire hollyhocks. The Wooing of Calvin Parks

Yonder between the hollyhocks and the beds of mallow there were now signs of life. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19

Very pleasant it was to work there, where the honey-bees hummed over the beds of sage, and among his mother's flowers, and where bumblebees dusted their yellow jackets in the hollyhocks. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls

Slowly, and with hesitating footsteps, Lois came up the path, lifted the latch of the little gate, and stood in the garden, close to a tall group of hollyhocks. The Moving Finger

A hollyhock, seven feet high, would be a good ornament for a cottage-garden; not a good ornament for a lady’s head-dress. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)

Here is the sea, here is the sand, Here is simple Shepherd’s Land, Here are the fairy hollyhocks, And there are Ali Baba’s rocks. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25)

Quiet and wakeful stood the fruit trees in the patches of turf, and the hollyhocks in the flowerbeds, and the moonlight laid a festive touch on the silent garden. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19

They had arrayed Jilly in white with a wreath of forget-me-nots on her blonde curls and a small market basket 221full of hollyhock blooms to scatter in the pathway of the expected guests. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John

The hollyhock was all-pervasive, running wild in deserts; the dock was common, and the bending reed; and overshadowing these were poplar, palm, potato tree, and Quercus Skeltica—brave growths. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9

Then she rose up quietly and led off down the path where the hollyhocks were still in full bloom. Wunpost

But the brilliant poppy, the large-flowered hollyhock, the flaunting dandelion, and the bright blue forget-me-not,—all these are visited by insects, which easily catch sight of them and hasten to sip their honey. Eighth Reader

Absalom was cut down, like a hollyhock in November—he was dead broke, and felt, in his present situation, flat, stale, and unprofitable enough. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes

If you have time, draw all the rows of cabbages, and hollyhocks, and broken fences, and wandering eglantines, and bossy roses; you cannot have better practice, nor be kept by anything in purer thoughts. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners

But are all the little folks you see painted like a dahlia, and pink as hollyhocks. Phemie Frost's Experiences

Orchids are liable to spot from fungi on the leaves, and recently the whole of the choicest hollyhocks have been threatened with destruction by a merciless foe in Puccinia malvacearum. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses

"Here shall be lilies," she said; "there, a great bunch of mother's peonies; and by the gate, hollyhocks";—he, by this time, plotting a sermon upon the vanities of the world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865

Uncle Harry purchased a huge stalk of hollyhocks for each of his guests, but for himself he chose an enormous sunflower which he insisted looked fine in his buttonhole. Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains

She was surrounded with her own favorite flowers—old-fashioned hollyhocks, sweet-williams, and fragrant healing herbs. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897

For instead of the patch of marigolds and hollyhocks in front of the house, all the wing inhabited by the minister and his family was surrounded with flowers. Diana

During the present year its ravages are spreading, until all admirers of hollyhocks begin to feel alarm lest it should entirely exterminate the hollyhock from cultivation. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses

I imagine she would quite as soon prefer a garden filled with hollyhocks and morning-glories to the daintiest flowers that ever bloomed. Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover

Let him contrast for you roses, asters, tuberous begonias, hollyhocks, dahlias, pelargoniums, before cultivation and since. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer

Virginia blushed a little, and instead of answering her mother’s look of helpless appeal, stared at the row of tall hollyhocks that blazed along the ivy-hidden garden wall. The Princess Virginia

She had seen the hollyhocks that stood up straight and tall against the fence that shut off the back of Aunt Polly’s house. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm

A writer in the “Gardener’s Chronicle” has proposed a remedy for the hollyhock disease, which he hopes will prove effectual. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses

As the hollyhock to the bees, so was Sukey to the country beaux—a conspicuous, inviting, easily reached little reservoir of very sweet honey. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties

The garden exactly matched the house, and so did the flowers that grew in it—the pink daisies, "boy's love," sweet-williams, and hollyhocks, all of which might be picked as well as looked at. Soldiers of the Queen

There were tulips on either side of the garden walk, and hollyhocks stood in a straight row against the fence. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales

Now and then we cross the mouth of some little lonely side-valley, full of mignonette and cyclamens and tall spires of pink hollyhock. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit

There was tea in a buttercup, cream in a blue-bell, Marigold butter and hollyhock cheese, Slices of strawberry served in a nutshell, And honey just brought by the liveried bees. Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon.

It was after tea, when Uncle Toodlethwaite was gone, that Molly, creeping quietly out to see the pigs fed, came upon her aunt at the end of the hollyhock walk. Oswald Bastable and Others

It might be well enough to catch bees in hollyhocks, and imprison them in underground cells with flowers for them to make honey from; but why accumulate fire-flies and even dor-bugs in small brick pens? A Boy's Town

The Major walked down through great lines of tall hollyhocks and peonies of every color and description. A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School

But as we ascend slowly the flowers increase; wild hollyhocks, and morning-glories, and clumps of blue anchusa, and scarlet adonis, and tall wands of white asphodel. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit

They get into one's heart like the hollyhock. Wild Life on the Rockies

She had left the rose-beds and was already intent upon her work, pulling seeds from the hollyhocks over yonder. A Bookful of Girls

“That child’ll wear herself out,” she said, not to herself but to an old blue hen who was scratching around the hollyhocks, clucking loudly. The Comings of Cousin Ann

But the cretonne that dressed her big comfortable chairs and her couch was bright with roses and parrots and hollyhocks, and the same cretonne, with plain net undercurtaining, hung at her four front windows. The Beloved Woman

They owned the most wonderful flower garden in the countryside and the old democrat looked as if all its hollyhocks had come to church, as Gavin pulled up at the door. In Orchard Glen

And then the hollyhock stems and the daisies both laid ’plaint of the gardener.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers

She had finished with the hollyhocks, and now she was bending over a bed of withered columbines. A Bookful of Girls

Mostly it was filled with hollyhocks—yellow, white, scarlet and purple. Policeman Bluejay

Two of the pupils, the season being autumn, and hollyhocks and daliahs being p. 80in, ornamented the wall with three devices in those flowers. Mugby Junction

Then she went away to the garden to cut some flowers for the house, and found Aunt Barbara there before her, tying up the hollyhock stalks to some stakes that Seth Pond was driving down. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls

And seeing that the hollyhocks in his garden were taller than the daisies, he bade his gardener with a scythe cut short the hollyhocks, that all the flowers should be but of one height.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers

It was as safe as tying up hollyhocks in a garden. The Rough Road

Near the door there are almost always a few cabbage-rose trees, and under the windows grow wall-flowers and hollyhocks, sweet peas, columbine, and sometimes the graceful lilies of the valley. The Toilers of the Field

A hedge of lilac and other shrubbery bordered by sunflowers and hollyhocks bounded it from the fields and trellises of white honeysuckle screened it from the road. Winning the Wilderness

It was a very wet garden; the hollyhocks still raised their flowered spikes in the air; the nasturtiums, the verbenas, and the pansies were beaten down and lying prone in muddy puddles. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories

“Why, that they had not been pulled up to the height of the hollyhocks, be sure.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers

Also peonies were up and larkspur, and the ambitious promise of the hollyhocks delighted Athalie. Athalie

The crimson ramblers, the hollyhocks, the bachelor’s-buttons, and the peonies, the twisted apple tree that never bore more than enough for one pie! The Pagan Madonna

One life is a long summer; Tall hollyhocks stand proud upon its paths; Little yellow waves of sunlight, Bring scarlet butterflies. Japanese Prints

Pitt opened a small gate, and came up to the house, through an army of balsams, hollyhocks, roses, and honeysuckles, and balm and southernwood. A Red Wallflower

Don't you like the place you're planted in, and the hollyhocks and lilies for neighbors?' Aunt Jane of Kentucky

If you have time, draw all the rows of cabbages, and hollyhocks, and broken fences, and wandering eglantines, and bossy roses: you cannot have better practice, nor be kept by anything in purer thoughts. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

She put in I don't know what all good, an' she had me pick some hollyhocks to take along. Friendship Village

At the far end was an open door, and a glimpse of an old-fashioned garden radiant with hollyhocks and Canterbury bells. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

No lilac blossoms now, little sister, but asters, and hollyhocks, and goldenrod. Clematis

The grass and the orchard, however, seemed to grow greener every moment under the refreshing rain, and the clumps of pink hollyhocks that crowded about the doorstep lifted their heads gratefully. The Windy Hill

There were hollyhocks in front of the house and among them I stood waiting for the old man to open the door. The Jucklins A Novel

An' I laid the hollyhocks down on the rug or anywheres, an' somehow I got out o' the room an' down the stairs. Friendship Village

An exquisite yellow hollyhock last summer sprouted unnoted beneath our dinning-room window, and we were not aware of it till one July morning when it poked up above the sill. Penguin Persons & Peppermints

My imagination showed me a picture of 26 Broadway and the National City Bank swaying and shaking like full-blown hollyhocks in a gale. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated

Have the neighbours’ chickens rooted up that row of hollyhock seeds? The Indifference of Juliet

In a similar way, discuss a few common types of biennials, such as turnip, cabbage, hollyhock, and develop the following points: 1. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study

I know a full moon was up back o' the hollyhocks an' makin' its odd little shadows up an' down the yard, an' we could smell the savoury bed. Friendship Village

At the same moment from behind a large clump of hollyhocks I heard the sudden cry of a strong man in pain, followed by a stilled oath. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914

An occasional house stood flush with the brick or flagged sidewalk; in that case there were snowy curtains at the window, and a glimpse of hollyhocks at the back. American Cookery November, 1921

Sometimes the little group lingered there until nearly sundown, between the laburnum bushes and hollyhocks of the old garden, but to-day, Alec's impatient whistle from an upper window signalled her. Flip's "Islands of Providence"

Observations.—During the first year food is stored in the root of the turnip, carrot, parsnip, and beet, in the leaves of the cabbage, and in the stem of the hollyhock. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study

The hollyhocks and the London-pride flourished once more, and the little birds built their nests, and twittered fearlessly under the eaves of the rustic cottage. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls

When I went out into the garden on the following day I could see Mr. Trumpington's head, tastefully framed in pink hollyhock buds, apparently following the spoor of a green-fly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914

Tall hollyhocks, both single and double, grew against the wall, and a hop vine hung in green profusion. Patty's Summer Days

He finds the delicious huddle of the gabled, pigeon-haunted roof of a certain brown old building at Frame, with poppies and gladiolus and hollyhock crowding the beautiful foreground. Picture and Text 1893

Outside the door Priscilla's class of Slabtown boys stood with some roses and hollyhocks they had thought to bring for her wedding or her funeral, they hardly knew which. Duffels

He trailed after her down the garden path between rows of blue larkspurs and hollyhocks—just at her dainty heels, because the brick walk was too narrow for both of them. Barbarians

Dahlias and hollyhocks are really the supreme ornaments of the garden during the latter part of the summer and throughout the autumnal months. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)

Horace, too, had some fancy for flowers, especially flaring ones, like sunflowers and hollyhocks. Captain Horace

There I stood a moment, dazzled, by the golden August sunshine, the iridescent spray of the fountain, and the brilliant colours of the hollyhocks beside the wall. Explorers of the Dawn

Two of the pupils, the season being autumn, and hollyhocks and daliahs being in, ornamented the wall with three devices in those flowers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

In the back part of the garden were some tall hollyhocks growing. Rollo's Experiments

These, madam, are my daffodils, My pinks, my hollyhocks, My herds upon a hundred hills, My phloxes and my flocks. From a Cornish Window A New Edition

Cotton.—The cotton fibre of commerce is the lint surrounding the seeds of several species of Gossypium, plants belonging to the same natural order as the marshmallow and the hollyhock. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges

Down on her knees at the fountain's brink, her curls almost touching the water, she was sailing boats made of hollyhock petals. Explorers of the Dawn

Summer passed through the garden with her procession of roses and lilies and hollyhocks and golden glow. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

Now it happened that as Rollo and Henry were sauntering about, near these hollyhocks, Rollo happened to see a bee in one of the flowers, loading himself up with wax or honey. Rollo's Experiments

In front a white-washed paling shut in the garden which, sheltered as it was by the house, was ablaze with poppies and hollyhocks and geraniums. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

Many are sheltered by box hedges, and none but has its garden—in which flowers other than hollyhocks, mignonette, larkspur, stock, and bachelor's buttons are considered slightly nouveaux venus. Tutors' Lane

Hollyhocks On account of the prevailing hollyhock disease—a disease of the foliage hard to combat—it is best to grow one-year-old plants, as they are less affected than the older ones. Making a Garden of Perennials

There was a certain dark wine-hued hollyhock which was a favourite with him. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

So saying, Rollo approached the hollyhocks, and put both his hands up slowly to the flower which the bee was in. Rollo's Experiments

The front door stood hospitably open, flanked by rows of defiant red and yellow hollyhocks. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

But snow-balls, 'flaunting' petunias, double hollyhocks, China asters, and tulips, they certainly are available. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

A clump of hollyhocks made a gorgeous splash of color against the wall of the house beneath the end window. Peggy-Alone

Then I got me this hollyhock and sat down here to look at it alone. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

So they went back to the hollyhocks, and there, quite fortunately, they found another bee just going into one of the flowers. Rollo's Experiments

The larva of Cynthia cardui may be found on the hollyhocks; the pupa state lasts twelve days, the butterfly appearing in the middle or last of July. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses

Those were the dark days when your dream of a little cottage in the country, with hollyhocks and morning-glories and larkspurs growing around it, melted away like the mists of the morning. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg

Pink hollyhocks may be made precisely the same, the only difference being that pink wax and colour must be substituted for lemon. The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling

The devil rampaged around me all the time I was looking at that golden glow; but God spoke to me through the hollyhock. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

On one side of the small stoop was a great patch of hollyhocks that were tolerated because they needed no special care. A Little Girl in Old Boston

There were roses and hollyhocks like rows of sentinels, and sweet brier clambering about. A Little Girl of Long Ago

It was in a little garden surrounded by a hedge of cat-tails and hollyhocks. The Cat in Grandfather's House

It never seemed anything very remarkable to me for most of the flowers have sown themselves and grow like weeds, but of course there's no denying the hollyhocks, poppies, and larkspur are pretty. Walter and the Wireless

And now Molly is alone in the little house, settled down to keep blooming the memories of it along with the hollyhocks of the garden beyond the lattice with the morning-glory vines trailing over. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

The tall shapes were bright and vivid now, as giant hollyhocks growing in irregular rows. Lady Betty Across the Water

At present it was really a pretty one, though perhaps a little too bright, with hollyhocks and geraniums. Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place

The tall pink and white hollyhocks that bordered the prim paths nodded languidly in the warm September breeze. The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country

Very pleasant it was to work there, where the honey-bees hummed over the beds of sage, and among his mother's flowers, and where bumble-bees dusted their yellow jackets in the hollyhocks. Winning His Way

Ludlow told as well as he could; he reserved his fancy of the girl's being like a hollyhock. The Coast of Bohemia

One day she was picking currants, and I had been sitting by her, playing with some hollyhock flowers she had given me. Three Margarets

Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. English Songs and Ballads

The flowers of the field were chiefly cistus, red or white, and hollyhocks four feet high. Byeways in Palestine

There was a bewildering variety of flowers, but mostly I remember stocks and pinks, Iceland poppies, marguerites, asters, marigolds, verbenas, hollyhocks, pansies and petunias, growing in glorious profusion. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance

Ludlow's picture was in evidence in a place of honor, especially created for it, and Wetmore said, when they sat down at dinner, "Well, Ludlow, all this company can tell where you got your hollyhocks." The Coast of Bohemia

The trim gardens blazing with hollyhocks and large white lilies, and the orchards with the apples shewing their rosy cheeks to the sun. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year

When the cabin came in view—the cabin on the side hill with hollyhocks standing guard round it—one of those subtle fancies in which Barber Sam's active brain abounded possessed Barber Sam. Second Book of Tales

A row of hollyhocks along the stone wall nodded brightly, and the sun's clarity was a wash of transparent gold. The Tyranny of Weakness

The hollyhocks from Ann Hathaway's cottage had not yet begun to flaunt their rosettes of color, but the rhododendrons from Killarney were in gorgeous bloom. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

"Tell the pretty flowers they shall have the Rain Elves all day, and their brothers, too," she said to the hollyhock, and off she flew up to the Rain Cloud homes. Sandman's Goodnight Stories

I have a little garden All edged with four-o'clocks; And some of it is sunflowers, And some is hollyhocks. A Jolly Jingle-Book

The hollyhocks about The Bower shot up once more and put forth their honest, rugged leaves. Second Book of Tales

Bees humming about the hollyhocks bathed the scene in sleepy sound. The Blood of the Conquerors

A Window Box Of perennials select bleeding-hearts, pinks, bluebells, hollyhocks, perennial phlox, perennial hibiscus, wild asters, and goldenrods. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition

But poor little lily's words were not noticed and a tall hollyhock was asked to find old Wind Witch and request her to help them keep the Rain Elves all day. Sandman's Goodnight Stories

She waters all the lilies tall, The fragrant mignonette, And hollyhocks beside the wall— Not one does she forget. A Jolly Jingle-Book

He favored one of the few white ones, a house with a wide porch screened by morning-glory vines, a gallant row of hollyhocks in the distance. Trail's End

And Lucy just went on sitting there like a white hollyhock. The Magic City

Could it be that these alert, self-reliant young men and women were once the children who had romped and frisked about on her lawn, or played house under the tall hollyhocks in the garden? Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer

"I think you are right," sighed the hollyhock from the ground, where he had fallen. Sandman's Goodnight Stories

There were hollyhocks and currant bushes in her garden and Julian's children overran it. The Lovely Lady

It is a big, old-fashioned house, and there is a lovely garden, full of roses and lilies, and phlox and stocks and hollyhocks and mignonette and sweet peas. Mary Gray

The whole frame looks like a big hollyhock, and the uneven places make it more natural. Mary's Rainbow

That night I slept in a mansion; but I "closed my eyes on garnished rooms to dream of meadows and clover blooms," and love among the hollyhocks. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales

Asters, phlox, sweet peas, hollyhocks, all were to bend themselves to my rules. More Jonathan Papers

I am tired of great yellow sunflowers and hollyhocks and pumpkin blossoms. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls

Through July, Ántonia said, the house was buried in them; the Bohemians, I remembered, always planted hollyhocks. My Ántonia

There were so many hollyhocks there that it seemed like a real flower-grove, and the gooseberries were ripe. Young Lucretia and Other Stories

She grows hollyhocks beside the house, and sweet peas on her wire fence. Modern American Prose Selections

As I transplant my young hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but tall and stately, aflare with colors—yellows, whites, pinks. More Jonathan Papers

Now, there was a pretty girl at this inn, called Nancy Sievewright, a bouncing, fresh-looking lass, whose face was as red as the hollyhocks over the pales of the garden behind the inn. The Literary World Seventh Reader

On the arbor's right, in charming privacy, masked by hollyhocks, dahlias and other tall-maidenly things, lie beds of strawberries and lettuce and all the prim ranks and orders of the kitchen garden. The Amateur Garden

The hollyhocks must have been ten feet high. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920

In the background sunflowers and hollyhocks grew, and on either side of the front gate two stout little cedars stood like sentinels on guard. The Story of the Big Front Door

And I found after a while that my asters were not running true; queer things were happening among the sweet peas, and in the ranks of the hollyhocks all was not as it should be. More Jonathan Papers

The day of the hollyhock fête of the same temple came. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan

The dewy freshness of the morning seemed to touch her youth as it did the asters and belated hollyhocks of the quaint garden into which she passed as he watched. The Henchman

Wasn't it pretty!" she said dreamily, "with the line of hollyhocks against the red brick wall, and the big, bushy pine tree in the corner. The Emigrant Trail

There was an old-fashioned garden of roses and mignonettes and hollyhocks, with crimson ramblers rioting over the wire trellis in front of the broad porch. Steve Yeager

Last year there were not quite enough hollyhocks, but next year there shall be such glories! More Jonathan Papers

"Like a new young bride you look, my pretty dear—Miss," she cried out when she first saw her as she came up the path between the hollyhocks in the garden. Robin

We could have ordered American Beauties from New York every day for what our hollyhocks and clove pinks and common annuals cost us. At Home with the Jardines

Besides the trees, tall, splendid lilies grew out of it, and hollyhocks and irises and sword-plants, and many other long-stemmed flowers. Cross Purposes and The Shadows

"Does the creature also sleep and eat and have his being right there behind my hollyhocks?" The Heart's Kingdom

Why don't you dine on the hollyhocks in the flower garden? The Tale of Buster Bumblebee

Raleigh had no part in any of these, and to complain of that would be to grumble because a hollyhock is neither a violet nor a rose. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

Stalks of last year's hollyhocks and lilacs from garden beds on either hand lifted their sharp points, here and there broken and hanging down. A Pair of Patient Lovers

When Kitty woke next morning, a fine cold rain was falling upon the drooping hollyhocks in the Ursulines' Garden, which seemed stricken through every leaf and flower with sudden autumn. A Chance Acquaintance

Then he trudged whistling up the path, striking at the hollyhocks with his rod, and wondering how long it would take Sally to brush the mud off his corduroys. John Ward, Preacher

So Buster darted away, calling out as he went that he would meet Jimmy at the hollyhock hedge on the next morning but one. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee

Pink and red hollyhocks stood sentinel along the paths. Old Kaskaskia

Sing among the hollyhocks, "Summer, fare thee well!" The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886

A black cross rose in the midst, and all about this wandered the paths and alleys of the garden, through clumps of lilac-bushes and among the spires of hollyhocks. A Chance Acquaintance

They went to the edge of the stone parapet and looked over; there stood Tommy Daintree below them, among the hollyhocks. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance

Now, Jimmy Rabbit had agreed to meet Buster at the hollyhock hedge between the flower and the vegetable garden, on the morning following the great gathering of Farmer Green's friends. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee

The hollyhocks air jest ez pink, they 're double ones at that, An' I wuz prouder of 'em than a baby of a cat. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

While the gale is sighing, While the wind makes moan, Sigh among the hollyhocks Of the summer flown. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886

In the sorrow of that time, when first I knew how much and how tenderly I loved her, I remembered about the hollyhocks, and at last realized how brutally thoughtless and unfeeling we had been. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories

Only one small boy, with a rough head and a red face, stood below the stone balustrade, half-hidden among the hollyhocks and the roses, looking wistfully up at the windows of the house. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance

All down, all down by the sleepy town, With the hollyhocks a-row In the little poppy gardens, The sea had her in tow. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea

Pink and white pinks, field and Shasta daisies, canterbury bells and hollyhocks. 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

And peonies and hollyhocks in the front yard, and two popple-trees, one on each side of the gate? Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play

A woman in a white dress, with her hands full of the red hollyhock blooms, walked between the graves down to the barred gate and came out upon the road as I drove up. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories

From this window between the folds of the muslin curtains could be seen a file of blooming hollyhocks. The Debtor A Novel

The damask roses, the Johnny-jump-ups, larkspur, bachelor-buttons, ragged ladies, marigolds, hollyhocks, and a host of others that are out of fashion now. Divers Women

A Member: I would like to ask about the hollyhocks. 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

She heaved a sigh of relief and ran off to tell the glad news to the butterflies and hollyhocks. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920

When we were young girls at home, our mother loved hollyhocks. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories

Round the fountain were tangled bushes of flowers—enormous geraniums, enormous hollyhocks, a riot of orange marigolds. Romance

The fireplaces were filled with black-eyed Susans from the fields and hollyhocks from an old self-seeded colony at Opal Farm, and every available vase, bowl, and pitcher had something in it. The Garden, You, and I

I saw such beautiful hollyhocks around Lake Minnetonka and I have never been able to make them winter. 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

I found her at a private dance given by the butterflies and hollyhocks at the other end of the lawn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920

Every summer I come here and see that the hollyhocks grow and flourish as we wish them to; and, at her request, I gather and send to her some of the blooms. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories

Rose's crisp pink muslin gown flared scalloping around her like the pink petals of a hollyhock; her slender white arms showed through the thin sleeves. Pembroke A Novel

The fittest had survived, and, among herbaceous things, whatsoever came of seed, self-sown, had reverted nearly to the original type, as in the case of hollyhocks, phlox, and a few common annuals. The Garden, You, and I

Mr. Hawkins: We have three plants, hollyhocks, digitalis and canterbury bells, and nearly all have the same trouble with them. 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

Once, she must have been handsome, a hollyhock queen of a kitchen-garden kingdom; but she would be far more attractive now if only she had "abdicated," as nice middle-aged women say in France. The Motor Maid

But this one, which lay in the centre of the enclosure, was covered from headstone to foot-cross with a dense growth of hollyhocks. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories

There were hollyhocks and sunflowers in its small and cleanly dooryard. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy

Then, too, the brake patch is a treasury to be drawn from when arranging tall flowers like foxgloves, larkspurs, hollyhocks, and others that have little foliage of their own. The Garden, You, and I

Mr. Hawkins: In our gardens the hollyhocks form one of the best backgrounds we can have, beautiful, tall, stately stalks, and the canterbury bells, certainly nothing more beautiful than they. 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

There were morning-glories in riotous profusion, tall hollyhocks, and wonderful dahlias. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York

"How odd that grave looks with its marshalled array of hollyhocks!" Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories

After five we sought our dugouts lying snug beneath the hill, Each with hollyhocks before it and geraniums on the sill. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse

And we'd pass pretty little cottages with vines growing over the doors, and hollyhocks peeping over the fences, and cheerful lights in the windows. The River and I

Mrs. Countryman: I am told on good authority that the hollyhock is a true perennial and not a biennial. 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

And then, in little square patches all round the garden, were planted London pride, blue bachelor's buttons, yellow marigolds, tall larkspur, many-coloured asters, hollyhocks and stocks. Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling

She wore a pink calico sunbonnet, and Zebbie says "she was just like the pink hollyhocks that grew by mother's window." Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Over the little whitewashed fence double rows of hollyhocks and sunflowers nodded their heavy heads, and bordering the narrow walk were lines of chrysanthemums and dahlias. The Voice of the People

The next day the Head-nurse was married, and the King gave her a farm and a dozen bee-hives for a wedding present, and the Queen a beautiful bridal bonnet trimmed with white plumes and hollyhocks. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

I have in mind a gentleman who raises splendid hollyhocks in the neighborhood of the lakes. 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

"With a clump of hollyhocks behind me, or a 'queer old door'?" he inquired. Mrs. Red Pepper

Mr. Wordsworth is fond of the hollyhock, a partiality scarcely deserved by the flower, but which marks the simplicity of his tastes. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe

Eugenia called them by name, and they turned great stupid eyes upon her as they stopped to munch the hollyhocks. The Voice of the People

The fragrance of the pink and hollyhock in the front yard was mingled with the aroma of the orchard and of the gardens, and resonant with the cluck of poultry and the hum of bees. The Art of Public Speaking

Mrs. Gould: I wish simply to say that the trouble with winter grown hollyhocks and canterbury bells is that they will head so tall and must be kept dry. 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

"We were talking all the time of the sweetbrier and hollyhocks,—and things like that." The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance

"Mrs. Bethune," says she, as they go by a bed of hollyhocks now hastening to their death, "is a friend of yours?" The Hoyden

The hollyhocks over the whitewashed fence brushed him as he passed, and the spices of the garden came to him like the essence of the eternal Romance. The Voice of the People

Do not explain the mechanism of a gas engine at an afternoon tea or the culture of hollyhocks at a stag party. The Art of Public Speaking

I always cover the hollyhocks and if I had the others I think I would cover them. 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

Some hollyhocks were bowed down despairingly, and the morning-glory vines were more miserable still. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches

How sweet is it of him to come and fetch her for a little stroll among the hollyhocks. The Hoyden

It was a humble dwelling of plastered stone, standing between two tall fir-trees, with ivy growing over the walls, lilies and hollyhocks blooming in the garden. The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France

How we'll click the latch that locks In the pinks and hollyhocks, And leap up the path once more Where she waits us at the door—! Afterwhiles

Mrs. Countryman: Wouldn't the hollyhock come under the heading of being perennial but not a permanent perennial? 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

Straining her eyes into the shining thickness of mist and sun, she thought she could see his blue shirt moving among the bean-rows and hollyhocks around the little place. Joanna Godden

The impossible lilies and roses, the huge peonies, and gigantic hollyhocks which composed its pattern, had been formed, stitch by stitch, by unknown fingers, probably now crumbled to dust. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town

I loved to see the ladies stepping primly down the garden path in their best gowns, between the stiff borders of box and privet, stopping to admire mother's hollyhocks or laburnum bushes. The Little Colonel's House Party

Their fragrance down the garden walks Where droop the dry-mouthed hollyhocks. Afterwhiles

As for hollyhocks at the cottage doors, and honeysuckles and jasmines, you may go and whistle; But the Tailor's front garden grows two cabbages, a dock, a ha'porth of pennyroyal, two dandelions, and a thistle! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence! The Ragged Edge

Sitting before her dressing-table she glanced over the room, which was hung with the gaily decorated chintz she had bought after months of secret longing for roses and hollyhocks in her bedroom. One Man in His Time

A violet softly sighed, A hollyhock shouted above. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

He had invested in past years many a shilling in hollyhock seed, but never till now had a plant bloomed in his garden. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756

They passed out by a piazza, through the hedge of hollyhocks, toward the front of the house. The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin

This was a small, weather-beaten dwelling, and the pink and red hollyhocks showed themselves in fine array against its gray walls. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches

Even a glimpse of that flaunting pink hollyhock of a woman was sufficient to ruffle the placid current of Corinna's thoughts. One Man in His Time

In the heart of the violet, pride; In the heart of the hollyhock, love. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

Sam made a good father of a hollyhock doll family whenever he undertook the relation, and provided liberally for us all in the way of honey, locusts, and grass nuts. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance

"And here we are, all out-of-doors among the hollyhocks," said Elizabeth Eliza. The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin

Friends are like those tall pink hollyhocks that go along and bloom single on a stalk until something happens to make them all flower out double like peonies. Rose of Old Harpeth

Althea rosea, the parent of the many beautiful varieties of hollyhock, a native of China, yields a blue coloring matter equal to indigo. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

I caught sight of the occasional spire of a hollyhock, and smelt the acid insurgence of marigolds. The Jervaise Comedy

I knew those hollyhocks would rise up some day and bear witness against me. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance

In my mind I saw the garden we afterward created; with many fruit trees, beds, and winding walks, trellised seats, squares of flaming tulips, phlox, hollyhocks, roses. Lazarre

Presently Rachel appeared, coming towards him down the narrow grass walk between two high walls of hollyhocks. Red Pottage

The roof was studded with large chrysanthemums—the private device of the Mikado, that of the Tycoon being three hollyhock leaves. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

The flounces of her skirt stood out about her like the delicate bell of a hollyhock; she followed the way falteringly. Different Girls

"I'm thinking of growing a crop of—hollyhocks, if I get time to plant 'em." Over Paradise Ridge A Romance

A bit of gray green moss upon a black rock, a field of yellow dandelions, a pink and white spike of hollyhocks, an orange-colored butterfly poised on a stalk of larkspur—what color-plans are these! The House in Good Taste

Near the stone porch, a rustic table stood beside a row of tall red hollyhocks. Ranching for Sylvia

House and outbuildings and fencing had all been freshly whitewashed; over the porches flourished morning-glory and Madeira vines, and the little yard was bright with hollyhock and larkspur. Lewis Rand

To the left, a young girl, with light flowing hair, stands beneath the branches of a tree, gathering pink and yellow hollyhocks. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885

I exclaimed, and I fairly clung against his shoulder while his strong, rough hand folded over mine as the husk did over the hollyhock seeds I had been holding warm and moist in my palm. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance

My host hung a rural kakemono in my room, one day a fine old study of poultry, another an equally beautiful painting of hollyhocks. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People

She did not add that the coral and silver brocade gave Mrs. Pletheridge a curious resemblance to an overblown prize hollyhock. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage

So, the differently coloured varieties of hollyhocks, though grown close together, each reproduce their own colour from seed, showing that they are not capable of freely intercrossing. Darwinism (1889)

Before the two a little yard, all gay with hollyhocks and roses, sloped down to the wider of the two creeks between which stretched the Fair View plantation. Audrey

"East and west, then," I answered, calmly, though my hand clenched over the hollyhock seeds which I had put in an envelope in the pocket of my corduroy skirt. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance

All have long casement windows, front gardens in which grow stocks and phlox and sunflowers and hollyhocks and roses; and a red-tiled path leads from the front gate to the entrance porch. Septimus

In the autumn, if we have room, we're going to plant some dahlias, and a row of hollyhocks against the house. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage

"Cannot a girl walk down her own carriage road of a morning, after hollyhocks for the windows, without—" "She cannot!" The Way of a Man

There were eastern flowers—marigolds, hollyhocks, mignonette—planted in the front yards of our little cabins. 54-40 or Fight

"To extinction, little lady," he answered, puffing a cloud of smoke into the hollyhocks. Katrine

Below, row upon row of hollyhocks seemed to bar all entrance with a trellis-work of red, yellow, mauve, and white-hued flowers, whose stems were hidden among colossal bronze-green nettles, which calmly exuded blistering poison. Abbe Mouret's Transgression

The roaring aeroplane of a humming bird whirled about me and sped through the hollyhock towers. The Light in the Clearing

So Stubby raced off for hollyhocks, picking the short stems off very carefully; first the large, silver-white ones, then shell-pink ones and last of all, the dark, velvety, red ones. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 34, August 23, 1914

One individual, for example, finds his emblem in a sweet-briar; another, in a hollyhock; and a third, in a tulip. Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850

Swinging, furry finger-points of shadow from the tall hollyhocks in the garden swaying with the breeze! The Last Shot

Those were the days, Phoebe, when you sat on the front steps and played hollyhock dolls. Andrew the Glad

Stand this hollyhock phalanx up against a wall like naughty boys, close to the house, or by an old fence. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

At the corners of the main room in niches especially provided for them were four Blois vases, decorated with hollyhocks, Chinese lilies, and magnolias. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

Milk-white and vestal-chaste the hollyhock Grows tall, clove, sweetgale nightly shed forth spice, Long woodbines leaning over scent the rock With airs of Paradise. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.

A brave old house! a garden full of bees, Large dropping poppies, and Queen hollyhocks, With butterflies for crowns—tree peonies And pinks and goldilocks. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.

Mr. Wordsworth is fond of the hollyhock; a partiality scarcely deserved by the flower, but which marks the simplicity of his tastes. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II

But now, after the second warning, Miss Abigail felt the need of some cheer for herself as she toiled among the hollyhocks and larkspurs. Hillsboro People

The eastern wrestlers wore in their hair the badge of the hollyhock; the western wrestlers took for their sign the gourd-flower. Tales of Old Japan

The garden gate was locked, but she managed to turn the key, and went slowly, in a maze of delight, along the trim paths, past beds of roses, hollyhocks, pansies, and sweet-scented gilly-flowers. Thankful Rest

Did she have winter pinks and bachelor's buttons and snap-dragons and hollyhocks in it? People Like That

Around the house, which wisteria has almost covered, is a garden in which roses predominate, but hollyhocks, coreopsis, and other flowers not demanding constant care grow in luxuriance. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment

After the lapse of years what once seemed a rose might appear to be more of a hollyhock. Laugh and Live

It is a modern house, with beds of old-fashioned pansies and sweet-Williams and rows of hollyhocks on all sides. The New North

By this time it was almost September, and asters were beginning to bloom in the garden and the hollyhocks were almost gone. Us and the Bottleman

But when it did sink in— "Oh-h!" gasped Helen May, and backed a step, her face the color of a red hollyhock. Starr, of the Desert

It was a great joy to see the clear road, with here and there a settler's cabin, its yard aglow with the marigold, the hollyhock, and the fragrant honeysuckle. D'Ri and I

Had we obeyed the grand impulse in the hour of our youth we might have kept the garden full of roses and the hollyhocks would never have sprouted there. Laugh and Live

Ruth looked penitent as she gave me a paper of hollyhock seeds, and said the flowers were a beautiful blood-red, and that I must plant them near the sink drain. The Morgesons

Only the hollyhocks are not going to be in the garden, but in a long row back there, to screen away the kitchen garden from the lawn. Strawberry Acres

A fine array of sweet-williams and larkspurs and hollyhocks stood in a row before them; jessamine and honeysuckle clung to the old brick and festooned themselves over the rickety porch. North, South and over the Sea

Why didn't you import a few hollyhocks, or a sunflower or two, and perhaps a dainty slip of cabbage? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862

To-day, under thickets of tansy, one may see the rotting logs, and there are hollyhocks and catnip in the old garden. Darrel of the Blessed Isles

Wordsworth, now seventy-six, showed her the lovely scenery of Rydal Mount, pointing out as his especial pride, his avenue of hollyhocks--crimson, straw-color, and white. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

"Your cheeks are pink as hollyhocks," he observed, eyeing her with satisfaction. Strawberry Acres

Who bids the hollyhock uplift Her rod of fast-sealed buds on high; Fling wide her petals—silent, swift, Lovely to the sky? Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I.

As plain and unpretending as the hollyhock; as thinly dressed as the short-kirtled daisy in a Connecticut meadow. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's

However, we saw his surroundings—the landscape that inspired some of his poetic dreams, and the dense rows of hollyhocks of every shade and color, leading from his porch to the gate. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

And yet but a week ago, rhododendrons at New Athos, wild roses and mallow in full bloom at Gudaout, acres of saffron hollyhocks, and evening primroses at Sotchi! A Tramp's Sketches

And phlox—Sally, you must have masses of phlox—and candy-tuft, and mignonette, and sweet alyssum—" "And love-in-a-mist, and forget-me-nots, and sweet peas, and hollyhocks. Strawberry Acres

A small yard with a picket fence and gate surround the yard, which had tall hollyhocks, rearing their heads high above the fence. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives

A straggle of quaint thatched cottages, roses climbing about the windows, and in front little, carefully kept gardens, with hollyhocks standing in rows, stocks and sweet-williams and such old-fashioned flowers. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays

There can be pink hollyhocks at the back of the pink bed and we already have pinks and bleeding heart and a pink peony. Ethel Morton's Enterprise

Above them were stretches of saffron-coloured hollyhocks, a flood of colour, and with these as sisters, evening primroses, a great abundance. A Tramp's Sketches

To these may be added a dozen or more which seem to be of doubtful formation, such as huckaback, pickapack, gimcrack, ticktack, picknick, barrack, knapsack, hollyhock, shamrock, hammock, hillock, hammock, bullock, roebuck. The Grammar of English Grammars

In one hand she held a tall brass candlestick, and through the fingers of the other the candle-flame made a ruddy glow like the sun in the heart of a hollyhock. Master Skylark

Hyacinths, lupins and hollyhocks were freely interspersed with the glistening foliage of the shrubbery. Out of Doors—California and Oregon

I passed by little gardens where great hollyhocks flamed in the afternoon sunshine, then I met the Tarn again and reached Millau, a weary and dusty wayfarer. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine

Half a dozen broken pitchers and pots held geraniums, verbenas, and other plants, while the well-kept beds of hollyhocks, sunflowers, and poppies indicated a taste for flowers in someone. Maggie Miller

There was a cool morning breeze lifting the leaves of the big elms, and nodding the hollyhocks' heads. Bambi

But "Heavily hangs the broad sunflower, Over its grave in the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock; Heavily hangs the tiger lily." A Cotswold Village

And with the mother dear I'd yearn To see the hollyhocks return. Just Folks

There were hollyhocks of white and gold, and simply perfect tulips. Her Father's Daughter

Against the house, her hollyhocks stood high And black, their shadows doubling them. Men, Women and Ghosts

Kindly consideration, gentle affection, peace and order,— all that go to make home home, were found here blooming with the hollyhocks and the wild roses. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1

The great tall hollyhocks and phlox, the bright orange marigolds and large purple poppies. A Cotswold Village

In October and the beginning of November come services; medlars; bullaces; roses cut or removed to come late; hollyhocks; and such like. The Essays of Francis Bacon

But Katy would not touch the delicate things, so Linda selected a brushy hollyhock for her and then sat at her knee again. Her Father's Daughter

She went to the window, with a purely literary thought of village charm—hollyhocks and lanes and apple-cheeked cottagers. Main Street

A dwarfed stone wall, broken by an iron gate, guards the front lawn, while in the rear an old-fashioned garden revels in hollyhocks and wild roses. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1

There were hollyhocks along the path that led to this door, and stunted rosebushes which were kept alive with much mysterious assistance in the way of water and cultivation. Jean of the Lazy A

An' you wait a little, an' the flowerin' mallows 'at grows long the shinin' old river are fine as garden hollyhocks. The Song of the Cardinal

Stones around the peonies, phlox, and hollyhocks raised and manure worked in. At the Foot of the Rainbow

"Isn't this tin hollyhock going to seed?" asked the Wizard, bending over the flowers. The Emerald City of Oz

And one fine day, when the hollyhocks were in full bloom, he came back to Puddleby a rich man, to live in the little house with the big garden. The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Makes me see the hollyhocks, and the hens scratching for worms. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

Mrs. Rachel deposited her substantial person upon the stone bench by the door, behind which grew a row of tall pink and yellow hollyhocks, with a long breath of mingled weariness and relief. Anne of Green Gables

There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady's-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks,—giant hollyhocks. The Song of the Lark

We went down the front walk between the rows of hollyhocks and tasselled lady-slippers, out the gate, and followed the road. Laddie; a true blue story

We have a splendid garden, there Are lots of flowers everywhere; Roses, and pinks, and four o'clocks And hollyhocks, and evening stocks. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Through July, Antonia said, the house was buried in them; the Bohemians, I remembered, always planted hollyhocks. My Antonia

Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds. Sons and Lovers

Though the minister continued gazing at the stiff presentments of local beauties and swains, his eyes seemed to see salmon-hued hollyhocks and spotted lilies instead. The Damnation of Theron Ware

Along the borders fringed With broad thick edges of box Stood foxgloves and gorgeous poppies And great-eyed hollyhocks. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2

In serried rows I guess the straight, stiff stems Of hollyhocks Against the rocks. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

The place nevertheless was full of pears, peaches, figs, green corn, American squashes, beans, tomatoes, and no end of roses, gladioli, tobacco plant, hollyhocks, heliotrope, dahlias, morning-glories, verbena, and sunflowers. Paris War Days Diary of an American

He found her a seat in a quiet corner of the fruit garden, where a tall row of hollyhocks shielded them from observation. The Avenger

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

The bumble-bee is pelted down The wet stem of the hollyhock; And sullenly, in spattered brown, The cricket leaps the garden walk. Riley Child-Rhymes

The front walk was bordered by geraniums and hollyhocks; and honeysuckle climbed the pillars of the porch. The Gentleman from Indiana

Virginia creeper screen, on an old fence, with wall-flowers and hollyhocks in front. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

She copied flowers after Nature, from a bunch of hydrangeas and hollyhocks, which, having no odour, she could keep in her room. The Dream

She dared do nothing but remain perfectly still—as still as one of the tall hollyhocks behind her which were crowded with white and yellow rosettes of bloom. Quaint Courtships

Those hollyhocks—the ones at the Vicarage at home are just like them. The Incomplete Amorist

Often she waved a timid hand to me; and I am glad to remember a certain sunny morning, illuminated now because I tossed her up a bright hollyhock in return. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life

Remove all hollyhock leaves as soon as they show signs of rust. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

There, by the side of the volume of the "Golden Legend," was the bouquet of hydrangeas and hollyhocks which she had begun to copy. The Dream

All that she considered was a simple question of endurance; but all at once her head swam, and she sank down at the feet of the hollyhocks like a broken flower herself. Quaint Courtships

Oh, how stately the hollyhocks towered on the borders of the shrubbery! Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

The centre of this quadrangular court had been made into a garden, where tall hollyhocks and prim dahlias flaunted in the autumn sunshine. Henry Dunbar A Novel

Here he has planted marigolds, gladiolus, golden rod, wild asters, China asters, and--best of all--hollyhocks. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

"How much do you all help the matter?" said a practical Yankee voice from a pink hollyhock. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858

The lilies were gone, but there was still a strong breath of sweetness, a bouquet, as it were, of mignonette and verbena and sweet thyme and other fragrant blossoms, and the hollyhocks still bloomed. Quaint Courtships

单词	hollyhock
例句	hollyhock As we rode past the old barn, weathered gray and leaning into a clump of hollyhocks and daisies, I pointed toward the shed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z You have to bend under a wild arch of cosmos when you come up the walk, and use your whole right arm to push the hollyhocks aside to get in the front door. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All hollyhocks and wee folk skipping in the barley and ain’t it like what Plossitossitus says about the return of spring.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Home is a house in a photograph, a pink house, pink as hollyhocks with lots of startled light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Annie Oakley always made hers very homey, with a garden outside of primrose, geranium, and hollyhock. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In dreamier moments, I’d thought I might use it to stake up some hollyhocks come spring. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There were also hollyhocks and oleander bushes with pink and white flowers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth and dusty hollyhocks thick and perfumy like the blue-blond hair of the dead. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I found some slick little trails out in our garden down under some tall hollyhocks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They are thin brown girls who have looked long at hollyhocks in the backyards of Meridian, Mobile, Aiken, and Baton Rouge. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z We left her by her withered hollyhocks and sought onward. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And like hollyhocks they are narrow, tall, and still. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When he read the word hollyhock aloud with his finger on the word, she saw that it was long, with many lines like tall stems. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of another sentence...hollyhocks like distilled sunsets and larkspur like concentrate of heaven. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the 900-strong population live in yellow houses on cobbled streets lined with hollyhocks, looking and feeling very much like something out of a fairytale. Boats and beach huts: a family holiday on Denmark’s Ærø island 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The setting agent As the name suggests, the first marshmallows were set with the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow plant, which McGee describes as “the weedy relative of the hollyhock”. How to cook the perfect marshmallow 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Towers of hollyhock animate one corner with their showy hot-pink-and-white blossoms. A Designer Who Makes Impossibly Lifelike Flowers From Everyday Materials 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The artist sometimes adapted his natural surroundings in Windham to improve his compositions on canvas, shifting hill contours and adding hollyhocks and other plants. Solving the Mystery of Ancient Ink Origins 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z An early adopter of building with reinforced concrete, Wright employed it here for the exterior’s hollyhock motifs and even for the front door, which is the only concrete door I’ve ever seen. Cultured Traveler: California Houses as Celebrities in Themselves 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z Wright used abstracted iterations of the hollyhock, Barnsdall’s favorite flowering plant, throughout the exterior and interior, and even in furniture and textiles. An Insider’s Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The collection was festive in its mix of colors like iris purple, hollyhock yellow and a nowhere-in-nature turquoise. Special Report: Haute Couture: Dior Blooms Brightly 2010-07-05T17:53:00Z Norgren is happiest, though, when tending the garden, which in full bloom teems with honeysuckle, sweet peas, dahlias and hollyhocks that she transplanted from the nearby open fields. A Swedish Design Duo’s Eclectic 18th-Century Apartment 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z His furniture designs for the house were also among his most innovative, especially the tall, elegant chair backs — abstract designs based on hollyhocks. Cultured Traveler: California Houses as Celebrities in Themselves 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z More than 20 galleries line the streets, and graceful hollyhocks brighten corner gardens. New Mexico’s Silver City — just the ticket for a 25th wedding anniversary 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Cameron is unpredictable even down to his description of a little yard: “It was overcrowded with hollyhocks and lilies and all the other tiresome flowers expected in an English garden.” New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z As we cycled down tiny lanes planted with hollyhocks, I wondered what Napoleon, the proud Corsican islander, thought of these idyllic surroundings during the final days of his political reign. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Lytton rang the bell at number 43 and they waited: a semi-detached Edwardian villa with hollyhocks and a tiled porch and stained glass, linen blinds pulled down in the front room. Literary pseudonym quiz: whodunnit? 2013-07-24T15:42:05Z Animals may raid my flower beds; a storm may knock down a freshly planted hollyhock. Perspective \| During the season of resolutions, a vow to appreciate trees all year 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The pollen grains of various common plants like sunflower, morning glories, prairie hollyhock, oriental lily, evening primrose and castor bean — magnified 500 times and colorized in this image — display intricate patterns. Why does nature create patterns? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Along the way, he met Barnsdall, a philanthropist, theater producer, political progressive, world traveler and lover of the hollyhock flower. Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House will soon reopen to the public 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The cottages are painted in bold, bright hues and come with kitchens that look out on the hollyhocks, roses, lilacs, herbs, benches and lawn chairs in this leafy paradise. Stay off the beaten path this summer at these 8 unique Pacific Northwest locales 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z A cousin of the hibiscus, hollyhock and okra, cotton is an ancient, shrubby plant that produces ruffled flowers ranging from pale yellow to pink. Sanctions on China’s top cotton supplier weave a tangled web for fashion brands 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z She cultivated roses, dahlias, hollyhocks and foxgloves; wrote several gardening books as well as a gardening column for the London Evening Standard; and frequently hosted outdoor parties. Felicity Bryan, British literary agent who spearheaded journalism fellowship, dies at 74 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s all because the city is nearing completion of its virtual tour of the house with a hollyhock motif and a Maya-temple style that Wright built for avant-garde oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, starting in 1919. Want to see more of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House? Now you can 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z In the first class, you’ll learn how to recreate a beautiful cottage with watercolors and pastels, then learn how to paint hollyhocks, the quintessential cottage flower, in the next class. From Salon Marketplace: Learn to paint like a pro for less than $30 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The bodies arrived at a large compound that is used as the crematory, its garden lined with hollyhock flowers. Bomb Rattles an Afghan Minority So Small ‘No One Is a Stranger’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z But the marigolds were a vibrant orange-and-yellow, and the pink hollyhocks hung from their stems like the bells of a trumpet. Gardener keeps up Peru spot known as Cole Porter inspiration 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Instead, continue on around as the road passes a green lawn on the left, bordered by hollyhocks, and shows off views from Hollywood to Century City on the right. This great L.A. walk takes in architectural gems, and fine city views 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z In one famous picture, the Beatles are posing among my grandad’s prize hollyhocks. ‘We were just knocking about in the park. Then the Beatles turned up’ 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z “I wish you would plant hollyhocks,” I say. How does my garden grow? In a lot of shade and with not a lot of help from me. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z She wants a bouquet of hollyhocks and marigolds. Watering silk flowers : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Those cottages, uniformly adorned with cheerful green-painted shutters and framed by bright hollyhocks and lavender, were mostly built in the 19th century, well after Île de Ré was of any strategic importance. The True Heart of French Seaside Chic 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “She gives the surface of something as banal as fragile hollyhocks the same texture Monet lavished on the Rouen Cathedral at high noon,” he wrote, referring to one of Ms. Foss’s beach scenes. Following a Musical Thread That Ties One Life Together 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The project included her own 5,000-square-foot residence, named for its ornamental tributes to her favorite flower, the hollyhock. The Hollyhock House Comes Into Its Own 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z This year Ruth planted some foxglove, which is kind of a poor man’s hollyhock. How does my garden grow? In a lot of shade and with not a lot of help from me. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Mrs. Lacey is a pink hollyhock now, of which her daughters seem cuttings, and her hat is a sort of pink straw k�pi, trimmed with flowers that resemble virginia stock. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The blossoms are beautiful, delicate things, more beautiful than most of the hollyhocks. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z There were pink hollyhock blossoms in the bright brown of her hair. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The ordinary hollyhock is single-blossomed, but the florists’ varieties have all double flowers, of white, yellow, rose, purple, violet and other tints, some being almost black. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Althaea rosea.—The hollyhock is a noble perennial, 6 to 15 ft. high, with flowers of every colour except blue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z But--for peaches are not peace, nor hollyhocks either--its owner passed through it with compressed lips and tingling cheeks. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z The flowers are said to be perfectly double, resembling in form a double hollyhock, color deep orange, shaded and streaked with crimson. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z He lost his head, danced with her five times, and carried away a crumpled hollyhock bloom that had fallen from her hair during the last Lancers, through which he had watched her. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Some of the finest double-flowered kinds of hollyhock do not bloom well in Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Thus we observe roses, hollyhocks, chrysanthemums, and tulips in all shades of white, yellow, pink, red, and crimson, even almost approaching black, and numberless combinations of these colors, but never blue. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z But above all, the giant hollyhocks, one on each side of a little brown door, whose little latticed porch was arched with clematis, silvery as if moonlight "Minatrost" were ever brooding upon that threshold. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z In early spring the graceful sprays of the Sidalcea bend over our meadows everywhere, making them bright with their pink blossoms, which the children call "wild hollyhocks." The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z It was not till, alone again at his hotel, he pulled out the hollyhock flower with his ball programme that he awoke to a complete sense of the insipid flatness of the new situation. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The wild flowers about Ali-kuh are in great profusion just now, the most showy being hollyhocks—white, pink, and mauve, which affect the cultivated lands. 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 This seclusion can be got by judicious screening of parts, by shrubberies, or avenues of hazel, or yew, or sweet-scented bay, with perhaps clusters of lilies and hollyhocks, or dwarf Alpine plants and trailers between. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z These cottages are surrounded with little gardens, in which there are various kinds of European plants, such as the hollyhock, hibiscus, larkspur, balsam, &c. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z It is a great satisfaction sometimes to find a bee overtaken by intoxication and night within a water lily or hollyhock, his obtrusive good example smothered sweetly. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z I like to sit a long time by the hollyhocks watching the throng of varied bees which poise and hesitate outside the wild flowers, then swing in with a hum which sets everything aquiver. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z When skies are blue and days are bright A kitchen-garden's my delight, Set round with rows of decent box And blowsy girls of hollyhocks. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z What is more charming than the effect of hollyhocks, peonies, poppies, tritomas, and tulips seen against a yew hedge? Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Hollyhock, hollyhock, bend for me; I need a cheese for my dolly's tea. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z Could an orchid and a hollyhock be one and the same? What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z He appeared to belong to the place as much as the hollyhocks and honeysuckle; and yet, how could that be? Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Honeysuckles, hollyhocks, Bachelor's buttons, four-o'clocks, Marigolds and blue-eyed grass Curtsied when the maid did pass. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The hollyhocks had opened flares of color under the living-room window. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Here they seated themselves and were served with delicate ice-cream hollyhocks upon golden saucers by Twinkle and Scollops. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z The breath of autumn was in the air, but the hollyhocks and gladioli still flaunted their gay colours, as though they refused to own that summer had ended. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z In the walks Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the mouldering flowers, Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly, Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Behind the manse box-hedges mark the bound And close the garden in, or nearly close, For on beyond the hollyhocks an olden orchard grows. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The tallest hollyhocks scarcely moved, so quiet was the night. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z She was still standin' in the door and, in spite of the wistaria and the hollyhocks and the green summer stuff everywheres, the whole picture was pretty forlorn. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z Bubble-like the hollyhocks Budded, burst and flaunted wide Gypsy beauty from their stocks. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly, Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.—Tennyson. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z We have a splendid garden, there Are lots of flowers everywhere; Roses, and pinks, and four o'clocks, And hollyhocks, and evening stocks. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Low-growing zinnias in futuristic colors, high phlox in pastel colors; higher, Canterbury bells, deep blue; highest of all, hollyhocks, wine red. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z In this district also such flowers as herbaceous paeonies, Spanish irises, German irises, Christmas roses, lilies of the valley, chrysanthemums, foxgloves, hollyhocks, wallflowers, carnations, &c., are extensively grown in many market gardens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z As tall as the lily, as tall as the rose, And almost as tall as the hollyhocks, Ranked breast to breast in sentinel rows Stand the gladiola stocks. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z Trim borders of familiar things blossom within their box-hedges before the entrance, and at this autumn hour fat dahlias, spiring hollyhocks, and rainbows of asters and pansies wind a girdle beneath the walls. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z Bushes of hollyhocks, white 87 peonies and many old-time posies grew in a riotous hedge around it. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z I think hollyhocks are the most decorative of all flowers. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z A row of stately hollyhocks separated the flower garden from the vegetables. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z In one place there were stalks of pink hollyhock and poles covered with vines, and in the windows above were scarlet geraniums. A Canterbury Pilgrimage 2011-06-13T02:00:24.520Z Tall hollyhocks lifted their flowers to smile in at the old-fashioned windows. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Oh! it is little Margery who has a garden-bed, Wherein grow purple pansies and geraniums white and red, With feverfew and dahlias, and delicate pink phlox, And grandmother's fair favorites, old-fashioned hollyhocks. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z “That is what we started after,” said Montmorency Shannon, his red head sticking out of the barrel like a full-blown hollyhock. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z He did the same by the flower of a hollyhock, the only kind of flower remaining, which plant I knew for certain dated its existence from the time of Goethe. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z The garden path, leading to the porch, was straight and narrow; on either side rose alternately cabbage-rose trees and hollyhocks. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Only the vines that still clamber over the porch, and a few hollyhocks that stubbornly refuse to die, remain to suggest the dooryard where the garden flowers used to “fairly run mad with color.” The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Where were ever seen such radiant, waving poppies, such hundred-hued pansies, such stately and brilliant hollyhocks, and such fragrant sweet peas? Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The bees were humming in this garden all luncheon-time, and yellow butterflies shot backwards and forwards in the sunshine: tall hollyhocks flowered gorgeously in the prim beds, and threw straight shadows on the grass. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z There were arches of evergreens and artificial flowers of paper, among which were very tolerable hollyhocks, though the roses were startling. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z She remembered, with a singular and most unnerving accuracy, the silent vigils which she had spent, half hidden amongst those tall hollyhocks. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z A small enclosure, with three hollyhocks in a raised mound in the centre, and a luxurious crop of nettles around, served as garden: a narrow path of very rough shingle conducted to the door. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z And then into the garden among the sunflowers and hollyhocks and columbine and larkspur and heartsease and the riot of June roses, common enough, yet gay and sweet as the rarest. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z The hills and the burn and the peeweets remained the same, the high hollyhocks flaunted themselves against the grey garden wall; nothing was changed—and yet everything was different. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z Above this, and reaching to the small beams, were four panels of stretched cloth, decorated with designs of smooth felt representing irises, hollyhocks, verbena, and gladioli. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z Look at them—my tall hollyhocks, my bush roses, my snapdragon there. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z The building was small and one walked up to the front door through two long rows of hollyhocks. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure 2011-01-13T03:01:17.050Z He also tells us of the gardens with "their pleasant, familiar flowers, lavender, hollyhocks, and satin." Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z He was about to dismount when a shadow detached itself from the gloom of the garden—the garden, with its flaming hollyhocks. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z And in the summer a long line of hollyhocks, pink, white and red, and red and white, waved, tall and straight, at one side of the house. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Sunflowers and hollyhocks bloomed in the villagers' gardens--the whole picture breathed forth a faint prescience of autumn, a promise of harvest and enjoyment of the fruits of the earth. The Undying Past On either side of the hollyhock sentinels the earth was a thick carpet of flowers, and the little house seemed to rise out of its own flower beds. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure 2011-01-13T03:01:17.050Z A storm blew the hollyhocks down, and there were canker-worms in the roses. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame And Anne Stafford sent on some hollyhock seeds culled from Emerson's garden. The Jonathan Papers The Angel stared at the Vicar's hollyhocks and thought. The Wonderful Visit However, there was traceable the foundations of new buildings to complete the quadrangle, and a mass of crimson hollyhocks were shining with rubied chalices in the quiet sunlight. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He is pondering with eyes Full of four-year-old surmise Two great hollyhocks that sway This way, that way, Till they almost touch his cheek. Mice & Other Poems Standing between the tall stalks of the hollyhocks, he held his watch up to the moon. The Key to Yesterday As chance would have it, his eyes rested on a little house from which came no sound of song or music, and which was overhung with exquisite roses, while tall hollyhocks nodded over the garden-fence. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II A wide-spreading old-fashioned garden, with rose bushes, and gooseberry bushes, currant bushes, sunflowers, and hollyhocks, and big gnarled old apple trees, mixed up in picturesque confusion. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir They were created for ease and luxury, just as the hollyhock is made to bloom against the sunny garden wall. Nancy of Paradise Cottage The tall white hollyhock would be a patient sentinel all night while its dark sister slept invisible. The New Gulliver and Other Stories In this inclosure, also, the hollyhock and sunflower, rival coxcombs of the vegetable community, gave their broad and garish tribute to the beautifying of the spot. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency In the centre of the yard are masses of hollyhocks, marigolds, nasturtiums, and stocks. The Unveiling of Lhasa "Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger lily." Faith and Unfaith The powdery crystal and crimson of your hollow hollyhocks; Your fairy-bells and poppies and the bee that in them rocks. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue Later, tall hollyhocks, lavish sunflowers, crowded Michaelmas daisies, added their reproach. The New Gulliver and Other Stories Should I not care when Constance there,— My Constance, with the bashful gaze, Pink-gowned like some sweet hollyhock,— If I declare my love, just says Some careless thing as if in mock? Shapes and Shadows On the roof are garden flowers in pots, hollyhocks, and marigolds. The Unveiling of Lhasa The gladioli and hollyhocks made a brave show amid the humbler sweet-williams and marigolds, but they would have to be left. Windyridge When Constance Grant came back with the coffee, she found Mr Guillemot alone looking out of the window at the sunflowers and the hollyhocks. Man and Maid California swung down the wooden pavements, audibly criticising the housewives' hollyhocks and the more perfect ways of pear-grafting, and, as the young men and maidens passed, giving quaint stories of his youth. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel We walked out into the garden, which was especially noticeable for those flowers which have always been called old-fashioned—I mean hollyhocks, sweet-william, snapdragons, and Canterbury bells, which were laid out in regular beds. The Last Generation A Story of the Future In the courtyard there is a border of hollyhocks and snapdragon and asters. The Unveiling of Lhasa The aged poet, then numbering seventy-six years, "but of a florid, fair old age," showed the visitors his household portraits, his hollyhocks, and his fuchsias. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) And then a tall row of hollyhocks in all colors, or great sunflowers with their buds stretching out of close coverts. Helen Grant's Schooldays She has seeds for her kitchen garden, also sweet peas, mignonette, sunflowers, hollyhocks, and pansies. Seeds of Pine Lethierry allowed her to soil her fingers a little in gardening, and even in some kind of household duties: she watered her beds of pink hollyhocks, purple foxgloves, perennial phloxes, and scarlet herb bennets. Toilers of the Sea There was nothing picturesque except the marigolds and hollyhocks in pots and the doves and singing-birds in wicker cages. The Unveiling of Lhasa The hollyhock was all pervasive, running wild in deserts; the dock was common, and the bending reed; and overshadowing these were poplar, palm, potato tree, and Quercus Skeltica—brave growths. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time There was the infallible sense of ended summer, even at noonday; and the dahlias and hollyhocks, dripping in the morning mist, seemed to be weeping for it. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl At five minutes of seven she picked up her knitting and sat resolutely down between her aunts on the hollyhock porch. Happy House And she shook her locks at the morning-star And her raiment scattered wide; Low laughed at a hollyhock's scimetar, Its jewels of buds to deride. Blooms of the Berry Before the wind, with rain-drowned stocks, The pleated crimson hollyhocks Are bending; And, smouldering in the breaking brown, Above the hills that edge the town, The day is ending. Undertones And so went beside me slowly up the garden-walk, his hands clasped behind him, stopping to look now and then at his favorite purple and crimson hollyhocks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 "What more would it be?—a hollyhock, perhaps? or a rhododendron, eh?" Portia or By Passions Rocked Avoiding the living room and the hollyhock porch, Nancy sought out B'lindy and begged a little lunch. Happy House The violets are dead; Dead the tall hollyhocks, That hang like rags on the wind-crushed flags, And the lilies' livid stocks. Blooms of the Berry One window, a west one, had hollyhocks looking in, and the door to the north gave out on the cool, shady grass. The "Genius" She was dressed in the hollyhock fashion of country girls of those days, with an exuberance of bright colors, but which Shorty thought the hight of refined fashion. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys Not in vain did I wait, departed Summer, this morning mocks; 'Mid the powdery crystal and crimson Of your hollow hollyhocks; Your fairy-bells and poppies, And the bee that in them rocks. Days and Dreams Poems Each day, when she did not go to the orchard, she spent in the sitting room or on the hollyhock porch, knitting and helping in little household tasks. Happy House It grew tall hollyhocks, neatly cut hedges, and a riot of old rose bushes. Madge Morton's Trust The white banner of Iyeyasu was embroidered with hollyhocks, his standard a golden fan. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Big as your fist, red as a hollyhock, fragrant as a rose, and firm and juicy. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys Both lacks were partially concealed by vines which climbed over its sagging porch, and tall rows of hollyhocks, generously screening with their showy beauty its weather-beaten sides. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted From the swing on the hollyhock porch she had spied Mrs. Eaton coming up the flagged path to the front door. Happy House The lady who kept the school was very fond of flowers, and above all she loved the stately hollyhocks. Stories Pictures Tell Book Four There, too, were the yearly hollyhocks and morning-glories blooming about the windows. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings "I used to think a sight of hollyhock cheese when I was a youngster." The Wooing of Calvin Parks Snapdragon, wallflower, pansies, and hollyhocks are very easily grown from seed. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes The low thatched roof—the bright square-paned little windows—the porch overgrown with clematis, jessamine, and honeysuckle—the garden, where gooseberry bushes and stately hollyhocks grow side by side. Ellen Middleton—A Tale Very soon the girls on Rosa's side drove their enemies toward the hollyhock bed, where they turned and fled. Stories Pictures Tell Book Four Without a substratum of sincerity, no man can speak right on, but runs astray into a kind of phraseology which bears the same relation to elegant language that the hollyhock does to the rose.” Talkers With Illustrations The stone wall of the barnyard was almost hidden by the hollyhocks; they were a pretty sight, Mary thought; she did admire hollyhocks. The Wooing of Calvin Parks Yonder between the hollyhocks and the beds of mallow there were now signs of life. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Very pleasant it was to work there, where the honey-bees hummed over the beds of sage, and among his mother's flowers, and where bumblebees dusted their yellow jackets in the hollyhocks. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls Slowly, and with hesitating footsteps, Lois came up the path, lifted the latch of the little gate, and stood in the garden, close to a tall group of hollyhocks. The Moving Finger A hollyhock, seven feet high, would be a good ornament for a cottage-garden; not a good ornament for a lady’s head-dress. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Here is the sea, here is the sand, Here is simple Shepherd’s Land, Here are the fairy hollyhocks, And there are Ali Baba’s rocks. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) Quiet and wakeful stood the fruit trees in the patches of turf, and the hollyhocks in the flowerbeds, and the moonlight laid a festive touch on the silent garden. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 They had arrayed Jilly in white with a wreath of forget-me-nots on her blonde curls and a small market basket 221full of hollyhock blooms to scatter in the pathway of the expected guests. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John The hollyhock was all-pervasive, running wild in deserts; the dock was common, and the bending reed; and overshadowing these were poplar, palm, potato tree, and Quercus Skeltica—brave growths. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Then she rose up quietly and led off down the path where the hollyhocks were still in full bloom. Wunpost But the brilliant poppy, the large-flowered hollyhock, the flaunting dandelion, and the bright blue forget-me-not,—all these are visited by insects, which easily catch sight of them and hasten to sip their honey. Eighth Reader Absalom was cut down, like a hollyhock in November—he was dead broke, and felt, in his present situation, flat, stale, and unprofitable enough. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes If you have time, draw all the rows of cabbages, and hollyhocks, and broken fences, and wandering eglantines, and bossy roses; you cannot have better practice, nor be kept by anything in purer thoughts. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners But are all the little folks you see painted like a dahlia, and pink as hollyhocks. Phemie Frost's Experiences Orchids are liable to spot from fungi on the leaves, and recently the whole of the choicest hollyhocks have been threatened with destruction by a merciless foe in Puccinia malvacearum. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses "Here shall be lilies," she said; "there, a great bunch of mother's peonies; and by the gate, hollyhocks";—he, by this time, plotting a sermon upon the vanities of the world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Uncle Harry purchased a huge stalk of hollyhocks for each of his guests, but for himself he chose an enormous sunflower which he insisted looked fine in his buttonhole. Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains She was surrounded with her own favorite flowers—old-fashioned hollyhocks, sweet-williams, and fragrant healing herbs. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 For instead of the patch of marigolds and hollyhocks in front of the house, all the wing inhabited by the minister and his family was surrounded with flowers. Diana During the present year its ravages are spreading, until all admirers of hollyhocks begin to feel alarm lest it should entirely exterminate the hollyhock from cultivation. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses I imagine she would quite as soon prefer a garden filled with hollyhocks and morning-glories to the daintiest flowers that ever bloomed. Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover Let him contrast for you roses, asters, tuberous begonias, hollyhocks, dahlias, pelargoniums, before cultivation and since. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Virginia blushed a little, and instead of answering her mother’s look of helpless appeal, stared at the row of tall hollyhocks that blazed along the ivy-hidden garden wall. The Princess Virginia She had seen the hollyhocks that stood up straight and tall against the fence that shut off the back of Aunt Polly’s house. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm A writer in the “Gardener’s Chronicle” has proposed a remedy for the hollyhock disease, which he hopes will prove effectual. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses As the hollyhock to the bees, so was Sukey to the country beaux—a conspicuous, inviting, easily reached little reservoir of very sweet honey. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties The garden exactly matched the house, and so did the flowers that grew in it—the pink daisies, "boy's love," sweet-williams, and hollyhocks, all of which might be picked as well as looked at. Soldiers of the Queen There were tulips on either side of the garden walk, and hollyhocks stood in a straight row against the fence. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Now and then we cross the mouth of some little lonely side-valley, full of mignonette and cyclamens and tall spires of pink hollyhock. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit There was tea in a buttercup, cream in a blue-bell, Marigold butter and hollyhock cheese, Slices of strawberry served in a nutshell, And honey just brought by the liveried bees. Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. It was after tea, when Uncle Toodlethwaite was gone, that Molly, creeping quietly out to see the pigs fed, came upon her aunt at the end of the hollyhock walk. Oswald Bastable and Others It might be well enough to catch bees in hollyhocks, and imprison them in underground cells with flowers for them to make honey from; but why accumulate fire-flies and even dor-bugs in small brick pens? A Boy's Town The Major walked down through great lines of tall hollyhocks and peonies of every color and description. A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School But as we ascend slowly the flowers increase; wild hollyhocks, and morning-glories, and clumps of blue anchusa, and scarlet adonis, and tall wands of white asphodel. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit They get into one's heart like the hollyhock. Wild Life on the Rockies She had left the rose-beds and was already intent upon her work, pulling seeds from the hollyhocks over yonder. A Bookful of Girls “That child’ll wear herself out,” she said, not to herself but to an old blue hen who was scratching around the hollyhocks, clucking loudly. The Comings of Cousin Ann But the cretonne that dressed her big comfortable chairs and her couch was bright with roses and parrots and hollyhocks, and the same cretonne, with plain net undercurtaining, hung at her four front windows. The Beloved Woman They owned the most wonderful flower garden in the countryside and the old democrat looked as if all its hollyhocks had come to church, as Gavin pulled up at the door. In Orchard Glen And then the hollyhock stems and the daisies both laid ’plaint of the gardener.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers She had finished with the hollyhocks, and now she was bending over a bed of withered columbines. A Bookful of Girls Mostly it was filled with hollyhocks—yellow, white, scarlet and purple. Policeman Bluejay Two of the pupils, the season being autumn, and hollyhocks and daliahs being p. 80in, ornamented the wall with three devices in those flowers. Mugby Junction Then she went away to the garden to cut some flowers for the house, and found Aunt Barbara there before her, tying up the hollyhock stalks to some stakes that Seth Pond was driving down. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls And seeing that the hollyhocks in his garden were taller than the daisies, he bade his gardener with a scythe cut short the hollyhocks, that all the flowers should be but of one height.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers It was as safe as tying up hollyhocks in a garden. The Rough Road Near the door there are almost always a few cabbage-rose trees, and under the windows grow wall-flowers and hollyhocks, sweet peas, columbine, and sometimes the graceful lilies of the valley. The Toilers of the Field A hedge of lilac and other shrubbery bordered by sunflowers and hollyhocks bounded it from the fields and trellises of white honeysuckle screened it from the road. Winning the Wilderness It was a very wet garden; the hollyhocks still raised their flowered spikes in the air; the nasturtiums, the verbenas, and the pansies were beaten down and lying prone in muddy puddles. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories “Why, that they had not been pulled up to the height of the hollyhocks, be sure.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Also peonies were up and larkspur, and the ambitious promise of the hollyhocks delighted Athalie. Athalie The crimson ramblers, the hollyhocks, the bachelor’s-buttons, and the peonies, the twisted apple tree that never bore more than enough for one pie! The Pagan Madonna One life is a long summer; Tall hollyhocks stand proud upon its paths; Little yellow waves of sunlight, Bring scarlet butterflies. Japanese Prints Pitt opened a small gate, and came up to the house, through an army of balsams, hollyhocks, roses, and honeysuckles, and balm and southernwood. A Red Wallflower Don't you like the place you're planted in, and the hollyhocks and lilies for neighbors?' Aunt Jane of Kentucky If you have time, draw all the rows of cabbages, and hollyhocks, and broken fences, and wandering eglantines, and bossy roses: you cannot have better practice, nor be kept by anything in purer thoughts. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing She put in I don't know what all good, an' she had me pick some hollyhocks to take along. Friendship Village At the far end was an open door, and a glimpse of an old-fashioned garden radiant with hollyhocks and Canterbury bells. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life No lilac blossoms now, little sister, but asters, and hollyhocks, and goldenrod. Clematis The grass and the orchard, however, seemed to grow greener every moment under the refreshing rain, and the clumps of pink hollyhocks that crowded about the doorstep lifted their heads gratefully. The Windy Hill There were hollyhocks in front of the house and among them I stood waiting for the old man to open the door. The Jucklins A Novel An' I laid the hollyhocks down on the rug or anywheres, an' somehow I got out o' the room an' down the stairs. Friendship Village An exquisite yellow hollyhock last summer sprouted unnoted beneath our dinning-room window, and we were not aware of it till one July morning when it poked up above the sill. Penguin Persons & Peppermints My imagination showed me a picture of 26 Broadway and the National City Bank swaying and shaking like full-blown hollyhocks in a gale. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Have the neighbours’ chickens rooted up that row of hollyhock seeds? The Indifference of Juliet In a similar way, discuss a few common types of biennials, such as turnip, cabbage, hollyhock, and develop the following points: 1. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study I know a full moon was up back o' the hollyhocks an' makin' its odd little shadows up an' down the yard, an' we could smell the savoury bed. Friendship Village At the same moment from behind a large clump of hollyhocks I heard the sudden cry of a strong man in pain, followed by a stilled oath. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 An occasional house stood flush with the brick or flagged sidewalk; in that case there were snowy curtains at the window, and a glimpse of hollyhocks at the back. American Cookery November, 1921 Sometimes the little group lingered there until nearly sundown, between the laburnum bushes and hollyhocks of the old garden, but to-day, Alec's impatient whistle from an upper window signalled her. Flip's "Islands of Providence" Observations.—During the first year food is stored in the root of the turnip, carrot, parsnip, and beet, in the leaves of the cabbage, and in the stem of the hollyhock. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The hollyhocks and the London-pride flourished once more, and the little birds built their nests, and twittered fearlessly under the eaves of the rustic cottage. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls When I went out into the garden on the following day I could see Mr. Trumpington's head, tastefully framed in pink hollyhock buds, apparently following the spoor of a green-fly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 Tall hollyhocks, both single and double, grew against the wall, and a hop vine hung in green profusion. Patty's Summer Days He finds the delicious huddle of the gabled, pigeon-haunted roof of a certain brown old building at Frame, with poppies and gladiolus and hollyhock crowding the beautiful foreground. Picture and Text 1893 Outside the door Priscilla's class of Slabtown boys stood with some roses and hollyhocks they had thought to bring for her wedding or her funeral, they hardly knew which. Duffels He trailed after her down the garden path between rows of blue larkspurs and hollyhocks—just at her dainty heels, because the brick walk was too narrow for both of them. Barbarians Dahlias and hollyhocks are really the supreme ornaments of the garden during the latter part of the summer and throughout the autumnal months. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Horace, too, had some fancy for flowers, especially flaring ones, like sunflowers and hollyhocks. Captain Horace There I stood a moment, dazzled, by the golden August sunshine, the iridescent spray of the fountain, and the brilliant colours of the hollyhocks beside the wall. Explorers of the Dawn Two of the pupils, the season being autumn, and hollyhocks and daliahs being in, ornamented the wall with three devices in those flowers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 In the back part of the garden were some tall hollyhocks growing. Rollo's Experiments These, madam, are my daffodils, My pinks, my hollyhocks, My herds upon a hundred hills, My phloxes and my flocks. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Cotton.—The cotton fibre of commerce is the lint surrounding the seeds of several species of Gossypium, plants belonging to the same natural order as the marshmallow and the hollyhock. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Down on her knees at the fountain's brink, her curls almost touching the water, she was sailing boats made of hollyhock petals. Explorers of the Dawn Summer passed through the garden with her procession of roses and lilies and hollyhocks and golden glow. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Now it happened that as Rollo and Henry were sauntering about, near these hollyhocks, Rollo happened to see a bee in one of the flowers, loading himself up with wax or honey. Rollo's Experiments In front a white-washed paling shut in the garden which, sheltered as it was by the house, was ablaze with poppies and hollyhocks and geraniums. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Many are sheltered by box hedges, and none but has its garden—in which flowers other than hollyhocks, mignonette, larkspur, stock, and bachelor's buttons are considered slightly nouveaux venus. Tutors' Lane Hollyhocks On account of the prevailing hollyhock disease—a disease of the foliage hard to combat—it is best to grow one-year-old plants, as they are less affected than the older ones. Making a Garden of Perennials There was a certain dark wine-hued hollyhock which was a favourite with him. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 So saying, Rollo approached the hollyhocks, and put both his hands up slowly to the flower which the bee was in. Rollo's Experiments The front door stood hospitably open, flanked by rows of defiant red and yellow hollyhocks. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 But snow-balls, 'flaunting' petunias, double hollyhocks, China asters, and tulips, they certainly are available. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy A clump of hollyhocks made a gorgeous splash of color against the wall of the house beneath the end window. Peggy-Alone Then I got me this hollyhock and sat down here to look at it alone. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 So they went back to the hollyhocks, and there, quite fortunately, they found another bee just going into one of the flowers. Rollo's Experiments The larva of Cynthia cardui may be found on the hollyhocks; the pupa state lasts twelve days, the butterfly appearing in the middle or last of July. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses Those were the dark days when your dream of a little cottage in the country, with hollyhocks and morning-glories and larkspurs growing around it, melted away like the mists of the morning. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg Pink hollyhocks may be made precisely the same, the only difference being that pink wax and colour must be substituted for lemon. The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling The devil rampaged around me all the time I was looking at that golden glow; but God spoke to me through the hollyhock. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 On one side of the small stoop was a great patch of hollyhocks that were tolerated because they needed no special care. A Little Girl in Old Boston There were roses and hollyhocks like rows of sentinels, and sweet brier clambering about. A Little Girl of Long Ago It was in a little garden surrounded by a hedge of cat-tails and hollyhocks. The Cat in Grandfather's House It never seemed anything very remarkable to me for most of the flowers have sown themselves and grow like weeds, but of course there's no denying the hollyhocks, poppies, and larkspur are pretty. Walter and the Wireless And now Molly is alone in the little house, settled down to keep blooming the memories of it along with the hollyhocks of the garden beyond the lattice with the morning-glory vines trailing over. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The tall shapes were bright and vivid now, as giant hollyhocks growing in irregular rows. Lady Betty Across the Water At present it was really a pretty one, though perhaps a little too bright, with hollyhocks and geraniums. Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place The tall pink and white hollyhocks that bordered the prim paths nodded languidly in the warm September breeze. The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Very pleasant it was to work there, where the honey-bees hummed over the beds of sage, and among his mother's flowers, and where bumble-bees dusted their yellow jackets in the hollyhocks. Winning His Way Ludlow told as well as he could; he reserved his fancy of the girl's being like a hollyhock. The Coast of Bohemia One day she was picking currants, and I had been sitting by her, playing with some hollyhock flowers she had given me. Three Margarets Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. English Songs and Ballads The flowers of the field were chiefly cistus, red or white, and hollyhocks four feet high. Byeways in Palestine There was a bewildering variety of flowers, but mostly I remember stocks and pinks, Iceland poppies, marguerites, asters, marigolds, verbenas, hollyhocks, pansies and petunias, growing in glorious profusion. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Ludlow's picture was in evidence in a place of honor, especially created for it, and Wetmore said, when they sat down at dinner, "Well, Ludlow, all this company can tell where you got your hollyhocks." The Coast of Bohemia The trim gardens blazing with hollyhocks and large white lilies, and the orchards with the apples shewing their rosy cheeks to the sun. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year When the cabin came in view—the cabin on the side hill with hollyhocks standing guard round it—one of those subtle fancies in which Barber Sam's active brain abounded possessed Barber Sam. Second Book of Tales A row of hollyhocks along the stone wall nodded brightly, and the sun's clarity was a wash of transparent gold. The Tyranny of Weakness The hollyhocks from Ann Hathaway's cottage had not yet begun to flaunt their rosettes of color, but the rhododendrons from Killarney were in gorgeous bloom. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor "Tell the pretty flowers they shall have the Rain Elves all day, and their brothers, too," she said to the hollyhock, and off she flew up to the Rain Cloud homes. Sandman's Goodnight Stories I have a little garden All edged with four-o'clocks; And some of it is sunflowers, And some is hollyhocks. A Jolly Jingle-Book The hollyhocks about The Bower shot up once more and put forth their honest, rugged leaves. Second Book of Tales Bees humming about the hollyhocks bathed the scene in sleepy sound. The Blood of the Conquerors A Window Box Of perennials select bleeding-hearts, pinks, bluebells, hollyhocks, perennial phlox, perennial hibiscus, wild asters, and goldenrods. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition But poor little lily's words were not noticed and a tall hollyhock was asked to find old Wind Witch and request her to help them keep the Rain Elves all day. Sandman's Goodnight Stories She waters all the lilies tall, The fragrant mignonette, And hollyhocks beside the wall— Not one does she forget. A Jolly Jingle-Book He favored one of the few white ones, a house with a wide porch screened by morning-glory vines, a gallant row of hollyhocks in the distance. Trail's End And Lucy just went on sitting there like a white hollyhock. The Magic City Could it be that these alert, self-reliant young men and women were once the children who had romped and frisked about on her lawn, or played house under the tall hollyhocks in the garden? Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer "I think you are right," sighed the hollyhock from the ground, where he had fallen. Sandman's Goodnight Stories There were hollyhocks and currant bushes in her garden and Julian's children overran it. The Lovely Lady It is a big, old-fashioned house, and there is a lovely garden, full of roses and lilies, and phlox and stocks and hollyhocks and mignonette and sweet peas. Mary Gray The whole frame looks like a big hollyhock, and the uneven places make it more natural. Mary's Rainbow That night I slept in a mansion; but I "closed my eyes on garnished rooms to dream of meadows and clover blooms," and love among the hollyhocks. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Asters, phlox, sweet peas, hollyhocks, all were to bend themselves to my rules. More Jonathan Papers I am tired of great yellow sunflowers and hollyhocks and pumpkin blossoms. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Through July, Ántonia said, the house was buried in them; the Bohemians, I remembered, always planted hollyhocks. My Ántonia There were so many hollyhocks there that it seemed like a real flower-grove, and the gooseberries were ripe. Young Lucretia and Other Stories She grows hollyhocks beside the house, and sweet peas on her wire fence. Modern American Prose Selections As I transplant my young hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but tall and stately, aflare with colors—yellows, whites, pinks. More Jonathan Papers Now, there was a pretty girl at this inn, called Nancy Sievewright, a bouncing, fresh-looking lass, whose face was as red as the hollyhocks over the pales of the garden behind the inn. The Literary World Seventh Reader On the arbor's right, in charming privacy, masked by hollyhocks, dahlias and other tall-maidenly things, lie beds of strawberries and lettuce and all the prim ranks and orders of the kitchen garden. The Amateur Garden The hollyhocks must have been ten feet high. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 In the background sunflowers and hollyhocks grew, and on either side of the front gate two stout little cedars stood like sentinels on guard. The Story of the Big Front Door And I found after a while that my asters were not running true; queer things were happening among the sweet peas, and in the ranks of the hollyhocks all was not as it should be. More Jonathan Papers The day of the hollyhock fête of the same temple came. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan The dewy freshness of the morning seemed to touch her youth as it did the asters and belated hollyhocks of the quaint garden into which she passed as he watched. The Henchman Wasn't it pretty!" she said dreamily, "with the line of hollyhocks against the red brick wall, and the big, bushy pine tree in the corner. The Emigrant Trail There was an old-fashioned garden of roses and mignonettes and hollyhocks, with crimson ramblers rioting over the wire trellis in front of the broad porch. Steve Yeager Last year there were not quite enough hollyhocks, but next year there shall be such glories! More Jonathan Papers "Like a new young bride you look, my pretty dear—Miss," she cried out when she first saw her as she came up the path between the hollyhocks in the garden. Robin We could have ordered American Beauties from New York every day for what our hollyhocks and clove pinks and common annuals cost us. At Home with the Jardines Besides the trees, tall, splendid lilies grew out of it, and hollyhocks and irises and sword-plants, and many other long-stemmed flowers. Cross Purposes and The Shadows "Does the creature also sleep and eat and have his being right there behind my hollyhocks?" The Heart's Kingdom Why don't you dine on the hollyhocks in the flower garden? The Tale of Buster Bumblebee Raleigh had no part in any of these, and to complain of that would be to grumble because a hollyhock is neither a violet nor a rose. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Stalks of last year's hollyhocks and lilacs from garden beds on either hand lifted their sharp points, here and there broken and hanging down. A Pair of Patient Lovers When Kitty woke next morning, a fine cold rain was falling upon the drooping hollyhocks in the Ursulines' Garden, which seemed stricken through every leaf and flower with sudden autumn. A Chance Acquaintance Then he trudged whistling up the path, striking at the hollyhocks with his rod, and wondering how long it would take Sally to brush the mud off his corduroys. John Ward, Preacher So Buster darted away, calling out as he went that he would meet Jimmy at the hollyhock hedge on the next morning but one. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee Pink and red hollyhocks stood sentinel along the paths. Old Kaskaskia Sing among the hollyhocks, "Summer, fare thee well!" The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 A black cross rose in the midst, and all about this wandered the paths and alleys of the garden, through clumps of lilac-bushes and among the spires of hollyhocks. A Chance Acquaintance They went to the edge of the stone parapet and looked over; there stood Tommy Daintree below them, among the hollyhocks. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance Now, Jimmy Rabbit had agreed to meet Buster at the hollyhock hedge between the flower and the vegetable garden, on the morning following the great gathering of Farmer Green's friends. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee The hollyhocks air jest ez pink, they 're double ones at that, An' I wuz prouder of 'em than a baby of a cat. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar While the gale is sighing, While the wind makes moan, Sigh among the hollyhocks Of the summer flown. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 In the sorrow of that time, when first I knew how much and how tenderly I loved her, I remembered about the hollyhocks, and at last realized how brutally thoughtless and unfeeling we had been. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Only one small boy, with a rough head and a red face, stood below the stone balustrade, half-hidden among the hollyhocks and the roses, looking wistfully up at the windows of the house. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance All down, all down by the sleepy town, With the hollyhocks a-row In the little poppy gardens, The sea had her in tow. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea Pink and white pinks, field and Shasta daisies, canterbury bells and hollyhocks. 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 And peonies and hollyhocks in the front yard, and two popple-trees, one on each side of the gate? Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play A woman in a white dress, with her hands full of the red hollyhock blooms, walked between the graves down to the barred gate and came out upon the road as I drove up. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories From this window between the folds of the muslin curtains could be seen a file of blooming hollyhocks. The Debtor A Novel The damask roses, the Johnny-jump-ups, larkspur, bachelor-buttons, ragged ladies, marigolds, hollyhocks, and a host of others that are out of fashion now. Divers Women A Member: I would like to ask about the hollyhocks. 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 She heaved a sigh of relief and ran off to tell the glad news to the butterflies and hollyhocks. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 When we were young girls at home, our mother loved hollyhocks. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Round the fountain were tangled bushes of flowers—enormous geraniums, enormous hollyhocks, a riot of orange marigolds. Romance The fireplaces were filled with black-eyed Susans from the fields and hollyhocks from an old self-seeded colony at Opal Farm, and every available vase, bowl, and pitcher had something in it. The Garden, You, and I I saw such beautiful hollyhocks around Lake Minnetonka and I have never been able to make them winter. 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 I found her at a private dance given by the butterflies and hollyhocks at the other end of the lawn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 Every summer I come here and see that the hollyhocks grow and flourish as we wish them to; and, at her request, I gather and send to her some of the blooms. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Rose's crisp pink muslin gown flared scalloping around her like the pink petals of a hollyhock; her slender white arms showed through the thin sleeves. Pembroke A Novel The fittest had survived, and, among herbaceous things, whatsoever came of seed, self-sown, had reverted nearly to the original type, as in the case of hollyhocks, phlox, and a few common annuals. The Garden, You, and I Mr. Hawkins: We have three plants, hollyhocks, digitalis and canterbury bells, and nearly all have the same trouble with them. 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 Once, she must have been handsome, a hollyhock queen of a kitchen-garden kingdom; but she would be far more attractive now if only she had "abdicated," as nice middle-aged women say in France. The Motor Maid But this one, which lay in the centre of the enclosure, was covered from headstone to foot-cross with a dense growth of hollyhocks. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories There were hollyhocks and sunflowers in its small and cleanly dooryard. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy Then, too, the brake patch is a treasury to be drawn from when arranging tall flowers like foxgloves, larkspurs, hollyhocks, and others that have little foliage of their own. The Garden, You, and I Mr. Hawkins: In our gardens the hollyhocks form one of the best backgrounds we can have, beautiful, tall, stately stalks, and the canterbury bells, certainly nothing more beautiful than they. 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 There were morning-glories in riotous profusion, tall hollyhocks, and wonderful dahlias. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York "How odd that grave looks with its marshalled array of hollyhocks!" Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories After five we sought our dugouts lying snug beneath the hill, Each with hollyhocks before it and geraniums on the sill. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse And we'd pass pretty little cottages with vines growing over the doors, and hollyhocks peeping over the fences, and cheerful lights in the windows. The River and I Mrs. Countryman: I am told on good authority that the hollyhock is a true perennial and not a biennial. 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 And then, in little square patches all round the garden, were planted London pride, blue bachelor's buttons, yellow marigolds, tall larkspur, many-coloured asters, hollyhocks and stocks. Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling She wore a pink calico sunbonnet, and Zebbie says "she was just like the pink hollyhocks that grew by mother's window." Letters of a Woman Homesteader Over the little whitewashed fence double rows of hollyhocks and sunflowers nodded their heavy heads, and bordering the narrow walk were lines of chrysanthemums and dahlias. The Voice of the People The next day the Head-nurse was married, and the King gave her a farm and a dozen bee-hives for a wedding present, and the Queen a beautiful bridal bonnet trimmed with white plumes and hollyhocks. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories I have in mind a gentleman who raises splendid hollyhocks in the neighborhood of the lakes. 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 "With a clump of hollyhocks behind me, or a 'queer old door'?" he inquired. Mrs. Red Pepper Mr. Wordsworth is fond of the hollyhock, a partiality scarcely deserved by the flower, but which marks the simplicity of his tastes. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Eugenia called them by name, and they turned great stupid eyes upon her as they stopped to munch the hollyhocks. The Voice of the People The fragrance of the pink and hollyhock in the front yard was mingled with the aroma of the orchard and of the gardens, and resonant with the cluck of poultry and the hum of bees. The Art of Public Speaking Mrs. Gould: I wish simply to say that the trouble with winter grown hollyhocks and canterbury bells is that they will head so tall and must be kept dry. 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 "We were talking all the time of the sweetbrier and hollyhocks,—and things like that." The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance "Mrs. Bethune," says she, as they go by a bed of hollyhocks now hastening to their death, "is a friend of yours?" The Hoyden The hollyhocks over the whitewashed fence brushed him as he passed, and the spices of the garden came to him like the essence of the eternal Romance. The Voice of the People Do not explain the mechanism of a gas engine at an afternoon tea or the culture of hollyhocks at a stag party. The Art of Public Speaking I always cover the hollyhocks and if I had the others I think I would cover them. 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 Some hollyhocks were bowed down despairingly, and the morning-glory vines were more miserable still. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches How sweet is it of him to come and fetch her for a little stroll among the hollyhocks. The Hoyden It was a humble dwelling of plastered stone, standing between two tall fir-trees, with ivy growing over the walls, lilies and hollyhocks blooming in the garden. The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France How we'll click the latch that locks In the pinks and hollyhocks, And leap up the path once more Where she waits us at the door—! Afterwhiles Mrs. Countryman: Wouldn't the hollyhock come under the heading of being perennial but not a permanent perennial? 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 Straining her eyes into the shining thickness of mist and sun, she thought she could see his blue shirt moving among the bean-rows and hollyhocks around the little place. Joanna Godden The impossible lilies and roses, the huge peonies, and gigantic hollyhocks which composed its pattern, had been formed, stitch by stitch, by unknown fingers, probably now crumbled to dust. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town I loved to see the ladies stepping primly down the garden path in their best gowns, between the stiff borders of box and privet, stopping to admire mother's hollyhocks or laburnum bushes. The Little Colonel's House Party Their fragrance down the garden walks Where droop the dry-mouthed hollyhocks. Afterwhiles As for hollyhocks at the cottage doors, and honeysuckles and jasmines, you may go and whistle; But the Tailor's front garden grows two cabbages, a dock, a ha'porth of pennyroyal, two dandelions, and a thistle! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence! The Ragged Edge Sitting before her dressing-table she glanced over the room, which was hung with the gaily decorated chintz she had bought after months of secret longing for roses and hollyhocks in her bedroom. One Man in His Time A violet softly sighed, A hollyhock shouted above. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales He had invested in past years many a shilling in hollyhock seed, but never till now had a plant bloomed in his garden. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 They passed out by a piazza, through the hedge of hollyhocks, toward the front of the house. The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin This was a small, weather-beaten dwelling, and the pink and red hollyhocks showed themselves in fine array against its gray walls. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Even a glimpse of that flaunting pink hollyhock of a woman was sufficient to ruffle the placid current of Corinna's thoughts. One Man in His Time In the heart of the violet, pride; In the heart of the hollyhock, love. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Sam made a good father of a hollyhock doll family whenever he undertook the relation, and provided liberally for us all in the way of honey, locusts, and grass nuts. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance "And here we are, all out-of-doors among the hollyhocks," said Elizabeth Eliza. The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin Friends are like those tall pink hollyhocks that go along and bloom single on a stalk until something happens to make them all flower out double like peonies. Rose of Old Harpeth Althea rosea, the parent of the many beautiful varieties of hollyhock, a native of China, yields a blue coloring matter equal to indigo. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. I caught sight of the occasional spire of a hollyhock, and smelt the acid insurgence of marigolds. The Jervaise Comedy I knew those hollyhocks would rise up some day and bear witness against me. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance In my mind I saw the garden we afterward created; with many fruit trees, beds, and winding walks, trellised seats, squares of flaming tulips, phlox, hollyhocks, roses. Lazarre Presently Rachel appeared, coming towards him down the narrow grass walk between two high walls of hollyhocks. Red Pottage The roof was studded with large chrysanthemums—the private device of the Mikado, that of the Tycoon being three hollyhock leaves. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months The flounces of her skirt stood out about her like the delicate bell of a hollyhock; she followed the way falteringly. Different Girls "I'm thinking of growing a crop of—hollyhocks, if I get time to plant 'em." Over Paradise Ridge A Romance A bit of gray green moss upon a black rock, a field of yellow dandelions, a pink and white spike of hollyhocks, an orange-colored butterfly poised on a stalk of larkspur—what color-plans are these! The House in Good Taste Near the stone porch, a rustic table stood beside a row of tall red hollyhocks. Ranching for Sylvia House and outbuildings and fencing had all been freshly whitewashed; over the porches flourished morning-glory and Madeira vines, and the little yard was bright with hollyhock and larkspur. Lewis Rand To the left, a young girl, with light flowing hair, stands beneath the branches of a tree, gathering pink and yellow hollyhocks. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 I exclaimed, and I fairly clung against his shoulder while his strong, rough hand folded over mine as the husk did over the hollyhock seeds I had been holding warm and moist in my palm. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance My host hung a rural kakemono in my room, one day a fine old study of poultry, another an equally beautiful painting of hollyhocks. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People She did not add that the coral and silver brocade gave Mrs. Pletheridge a curious resemblance to an overblown prize hollyhock. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage So, the differently coloured varieties of hollyhocks, though grown close together, each reproduce their own colour from seed, showing that they are not capable of freely intercrossing. Darwinism (1889) Before the two a little yard, all gay with hollyhocks and roses, sloped down to the wider of the two creeks between which stretched the Fair View plantation. Audrey "East and west, then," I answered, calmly, though my hand clenched over the hollyhock seeds which I had put in an envelope in the pocket of my corduroy skirt. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance All have long casement windows, front gardens in which grow stocks and phlox and sunflowers and hollyhocks and roses; and a red-tiled path leads from the front gate to the entrance porch. Septimus In the autumn, if we have room, we're going to plant some dahlias, and a row of hollyhocks against the house. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage "Cannot a girl walk down her own carriage road of a morning, after hollyhocks for the windows, without—" "She cannot!" The Way of a Man There were eastern flowers—marigolds, hollyhocks, mignonette—planted in the front yards of our little cabins. 54-40 or Fight "To extinction, little lady," he answered, puffing a cloud of smoke into the hollyhocks. Katrine Below, row upon row of hollyhocks seemed to bar all entrance with a trellis-work of red, yellow, mauve, and white-hued flowers, whose stems were hidden among colossal bronze-green nettles, which calmly exuded blistering poison. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The roaring aeroplane of a humming bird whirled about me and sped through the hollyhock towers. The Light in the Clearing So Stubby raced off for hollyhocks, picking the short stems off very carefully; first the large, silver-white ones, then shell-pink ones and last of all, the dark, velvety, red ones. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 34, August 23, 1914 One individual, for example, finds his emblem in a sweet-briar; another, in a hollyhock; and a third, in a tulip. Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Swinging, furry finger-points of shadow from the tall hollyhocks in the garden swaying with the breeze! The Last Shot Those were the days, Phoebe, when you sat on the front steps and played hollyhock dolls. Andrew the Glad Stand this hollyhock phalanx up against a wall like naughty boys, close to the house, or by an old fence. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. At the corners of the main room in niches especially provided for them were four Blois vases, decorated with hollyhocks, Chinese lilies, and magnolias. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Milk-white and vestal-chaste the hollyhock Grows tall, clove, sweetgale nightly shed forth spice, Long woodbines leaning over scent the rock With airs of Paradise. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. A brave old house! a garden full of bees, Large dropping poppies, and Queen hollyhocks, With butterflies for crowns—tree peonies And pinks and goldilocks. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Mr. Wordsworth is fond of the hollyhock; a partiality scarcely deserved by the flower, but which marks the simplicity of his tastes. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II But now, after the second warning, Miss Abigail felt the need of some cheer for herself as she toiled among the hollyhocks and larkspurs. Hillsboro People The eastern wrestlers wore in their hair the badge of the hollyhock; the western wrestlers took for their sign the gourd-flower. Tales of Old Japan The garden gate was locked, but she managed to turn the key, and went slowly, in a maze of delight, along the trim paths, past beds of roses, hollyhocks, pansies, and sweet-scented gilly-flowers. Thankful Rest Did she have winter pinks and bachelor's buttons and snap-dragons and hollyhocks in it? People Like That Around the house, which wisteria has almost covered, is a garden in which roses predominate, but hollyhocks, coreopsis, and other flowers not demanding constant care grow in luxuriance. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment After the lapse of years what once seemed a rose might appear to be more of a hollyhock. Laugh and Live It is a modern house, with beds of old-fashioned pansies and sweet-Williams and rows of hollyhocks on all sides. The New North By this time it was almost September, and asters were beginning to bloom in the garden and the hollyhocks were almost gone. Us and the Bottleman But when it did sink in— "Oh-h!" gasped Helen May, and backed a step, her face the color of a red hollyhock. Starr, of the Desert It was a great joy to see the clear road, with here and there a settler's cabin, its yard aglow with the marigold, the hollyhock, and the fragrant honeysuckle. D'Ri and I Had we obeyed the grand impulse in the hour of our youth we might have kept the garden full of roses and the hollyhocks would never have sprouted there. Laugh and Live Ruth looked penitent as she gave me a paper of hollyhock seeds, and said the flowers were a beautiful blood-red, and that I must plant them near the sink drain. The Morgesons Only the hollyhocks are not going to be in the garden, but in a long row back there, to screen away the kitchen garden from the lawn. Strawberry Acres A fine array of sweet-williams and larkspurs and hollyhocks stood in a row before them; jessamine and honeysuckle clung to the old brick and festooned themselves over the rickety porch. North, South and over the Sea Why didn't you import a few hollyhocks, or a sunflower or two, and perhaps a dainty slip of cabbage? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 To-day, under thickets of tansy, one may see the rotting logs, and there are hollyhocks and catnip in the old garden. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Wordsworth, now seventy-six, showed her the lovely scenery of Rydal Mount, pointing out as his especial pride, his avenue of hollyhocks--crimson, straw-color, and white. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous "Your cheeks are pink as hollyhocks," he observed, eyeing her with satisfaction. Strawberry Acres Who bids the hollyhock uplift Her rod of fast-sealed buds on high; Fling wide her petals—silent, swift, Lovely to the sky? Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. As plain and unpretending as the hollyhock; as thinly dressed as the short-kirtled daisy in a Connecticut meadow. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's However, we saw his surroundings—the landscape that inspired some of his poetic dreams, and the dense rows of hollyhocks of every shade and color, leading from his porch to the gate. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 And yet but a week ago, rhododendrons at New Athos, wild roses and mallow in full bloom at Gudaout, acres of saffron hollyhocks, and evening primroses at Sotchi! A Tramp's Sketches And phlox—Sally, you must have masses of phlox—and candy-tuft, and mignonette, and sweet alyssum—" "And love-in-a-mist, and forget-me-nots, and sweet peas, and hollyhocks. Strawberry Acres A small yard with a picket fence and gate surround the yard, which had tall hollyhocks, rearing their heads high above the fence. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives A straggle of quaint thatched cottages, roses climbing about the windows, and in front little, carefully kept gardens, with hollyhocks standing in rows, stocks and sweet-williams and such old-fashioned flowers. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays There can be pink hollyhocks at the back of the pink bed and we already have pinks and bleeding heart and a pink peony. Ethel Morton's Enterprise Above them were stretches of saffron-coloured hollyhocks, a flood of colour, and with these as sisters, evening primroses, a great abundance. A Tramp's Sketches To these may be added a dozen or more which seem to be of doubtful formation, such as huckaback, pickapack, gimcrack, ticktack, picknick, barrack, knapsack, hollyhock, shamrock, hammock, hillock, hammock, bullock, roebuck. The Grammar of English Grammars In one hand she held a tall brass candlestick, and through the fingers of the other the candle-flame made a ruddy glow like the sun in the heart of a hollyhock. Master Skylark Hyacinths, lupins and hollyhocks were freely interspersed with the glistening foliage of the shrubbery. Out of Doors—California and Oregon I passed by little gardens where great hollyhocks flamed in the afternoon sunshine, then I met the Tarn again and reached Millau, a weary and dusty wayfarer. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Half a dozen broken pitchers and pots held geraniums, verbenas, and other plants, while the well-kept beds of hollyhocks, sunflowers, and poppies indicated a taste for flowers in someone. Maggie Miller There was a cool morning breeze lifting the leaves of the big elms, and nodding the hollyhocks' heads. Bambi But "Heavily hangs the broad sunflower, Over its grave in the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock; Heavily hangs the tiger lily." A Cotswold Village And with the mother dear I'd yearn To see the hollyhocks return. Just Folks There were hollyhocks of white and gold, and simply perfect tulips. Her Father's Daughter Against the house, her hollyhocks stood high And black, their shadows doubling them. Men, Women and Ghosts Kindly consideration, gentle affection, peace and order,— all that go to make home home, were found here blooming with the hollyhocks and the wild roses. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 The great tall hollyhocks and phlox, the bright orange marigolds and large purple poppies. A Cotswold Village In October and the beginning of November come services; medlars; bullaces; roses cut or removed to come late; hollyhocks; and such like. The Essays of Francis Bacon But Katy would not touch the delicate things, so Linda selected a brushy hollyhock for her and then sat at her knee again. Her Father's Daughter She went to the window, with a purely literary thought of village charm—hollyhocks and lanes and apple-cheeked cottagers. Main Street A dwarfed stone wall, broken by an iron gate, guards the front lawn, while in the rear an old-fashioned garden revels in hollyhocks and wild roses. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 There were hollyhocks along the path that led to this door, and stunted rosebushes which were kept alive with much mysterious assistance in the way of water and cultivation. Jean of the Lazy A An' you wait a little, an' the flowerin' mallows 'at grows long the shinin' old river are fine as garden hollyhocks. The Song of the Cardinal Stones around the peonies, phlox, and hollyhocks raised and manure worked in. At the Foot of the Rainbow "Isn't this tin hollyhock going to seed?" asked the Wizard, bending over the flowers. The Emerald City of Oz And one fine day, when the hollyhocks were in full bloom, he came back to Puddleby a rich man, to live in the little house with the big garden. The Story of Doctor Dolittle Makes me see the hollyhocks, and the hens scratching for worms. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Mrs. Rachel deposited her substantial person upon the stone bench by the door, behind which grew a row of tall pink and yellow hollyhocks, with a long breath of mingled weariness and relief. Anne of Green Gables There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady's-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks,—giant hollyhocks. The Song of the Lark The hollyhock was all pervasive, running wild in deserts; the dock was common, and the bending reed; and overshadowing these were poplar, palm, potato tree, and Quercus Skeltica—brave growths. Memories and Portraits We went down the front walk between the rows of hollyhocks and tasselled lady-slippers, out the gate, and followed the road. Laddie; a true blue story We have a splendid garden, there Are lots of flowers everywhere; Roses, and pinks, and four o'clocks And hollyhocks, and evening stocks. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Through July, Antonia said, the house was buried in them; the Bohemians, I remembered, always planted hollyhocks. My Antonia Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds. Sons and Lovers Though the minister continued gazing at the stiff presentments of local beauties and swains, his eyes seemed to see salmon-hued hollyhocks and spotted lilies instead. The Damnation of Theron Ware Along the borders fringed With broad thick edges of box Stood foxgloves and gorgeous poppies And great-eyed hollyhocks. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 In serried rows I guess the straight, stiff stems Of hollyhocks Against the rocks. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass The place nevertheless was full of pears, peaches, figs, green corn, American squashes, beans, tomatoes, and no end of roses, gladioli, tobacco plant, hollyhocks, heliotrope, dahlias, morning-glories, verbena, and sunflowers. Paris War Days Diary of an American He found her a seat in a quiet corner of the fruit garden, where a tall row of hollyhocks shielded them from observation. The Avenger 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 The bumble-bee is pelted down The wet stem of the hollyhock; And sullenly, in spattered brown, The cricket leaps the garden walk. Riley Child-Rhymes The front walk was bordered by geraniums and hollyhocks; and honeysuckle climbed the pillars of the porch. The Gentleman from Indiana Virginia creeper screen, on an old fence, with wall-flowers and hollyhocks in front. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) She copied flowers after Nature, from a bunch of hydrangeas and hollyhocks, which, having no odour, she could keep in her room. The Dream She dared do nothing but remain perfectly still—as still as one of the tall hollyhocks behind her which were crowded with white and yellow rosettes of bloom. Quaint Courtships Those hollyhocks—the ones at the Vicarage at home are just like them. The Incomplete Amorist Often she waved a timid hand to me; and I am glad to remember a certain sunny morning, illuminated now because I tossed her up a bright hollyhock in return. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Remove all hollyhock leaves as soon as they show signs of rust. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) There, by the side of the volume of the "Golden Legend," was the bouquet of hydrangeas and hollyhocks which she had begun to copy. The Dream All that she considered was a simple question of endurance; but all at once her head swam, and she sank down at the feet of the hollyhocks like a broken flower herself. Quaint Courtships Oh, how stately the hollyhocks towered on the borders of the shrubbery! Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood The centre of this quadrangular court had been made into a garden, where tall hollyhocks and prim dahlias flaunted in the autumn sunshine. Henry Dunbar A Novel Here he has planted marigolds, gladiolus, golden rod, wild asters, China asters, and--best of all--hollyhocks. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) "How much do you all help the matter?" said a practical Yankee voice from a pink hollyhock. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 The lilies were gone, but there was still a strong breath of sweetness, a bouquet, as it were, of mignonette and verbena and sweet thyme and other fragrant blossoms, and the hollyhocks still bloomed. Quaint Courtships
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