| 单词 | scabious |
| 例句 | In addition to fulfilling custom orders, they offer a single fresh arrangement each week, available in three sizes, consisting of a lively mix of blooms such as sunflowers, delphiniums, dahlias, agapanthus and scabious. T Black Book: Florists 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Buglife Cymru said it discovered a "strong population" of small scabious mining bees at St Julian's Park local nature reserve last week. Rare bee found in area for the first time 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Think swathes of catmint, field scabious and hyssop. 50 simple ways to make your life greener 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The others are the shining guest ant, dark bordered beauty moth, small scabious mining bee, northern silver-stiletto fly and pine hoverfly. 'Fake females' to aid rare moth work in Cairngorms - BBC News 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The mountains drew nearer, and other pale colours began to show through the scabious blue. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The moist meadows, too, were covered with a profusion of brilliant flowers—snakewort, the wild scabious, campanulas, and many others. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Hat in hand, Doris had stalked four blue butterflies that were dancing together round a scabious flower with a motion that was like the flickering of blue fire. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Scabiosa, skā-bi-ō′sa, n. a genus of herbaceous plants of the teasel family, as the Devil's-bit scabious, the Sweet scabious, &c.—the former long thought efficacious in scaly eruptions. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Bees hummed among the scabious, and blue and sulphur butterflies hovered over the patches of wild thyme. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The grass was all but hidden under a blue blur of scabious, and the cobwebs in the hedges were elaborately studded with dew-drops. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z The blue scabious had no leaves to speak of, nor had the red knapweed, nor the yellow rattle, nor the white moon-daisies, nor golden buttercups, nor red sorrel. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z When he passed under the window she threw him a scabious bound up with forget-me-nots. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z Land will be seeded with species such as lesser knapweed, field scabious, birdsfoot trefoil and red clover. 'Bee Road' network plans to boost insects 2011-04-12T02:13:08Z Close to them a mountain-ash overhung the deep, and about the scabious at the foot of it butterflies hovered, part of the airy light. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The drive was a mere rutted cart-track; hemlock, foxgloves, purple knapweed, blue scabious and tall, thin-stemmed buttercups grew along the tangled hedges, and the blackberry flowers patterned the brambles with pearliness. Beggars on Horseback It is gregarious, feeding under protection of a web upon the leaves of plantain, devils-bit scabious, and some other plants. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species The scabious meant "sorrow and desolation," and the forget-me-not "Do not forget me." The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z The knapweed was stunted and the scabious blooms drooped towards the dusty pasture. Sinister Street, vol. 1 On the moorland behind the cliffs, heather and burnet roses bloomed with azure scabious and white mothmulleins, ladies' tresses and sweet purple orchids. Carnival This was a part of the day's work that appealed to her more than the cookery, so she lingered for some time making an artistic combination of poppies, grasses, and sweet scabious. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story The plantain and scabious in like manner I knew to be a plantain and scabious by their general look. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) What had been a lake with fountains was a great, cracked basin of concrete tarnished with scabious pools thick with the dead leaves of many an autumn. In a Little Town The country air was still sweet between the hazel hedgerows, although the grass was drouthy and the scabious blooms were already grey with dust. Sinister Street, vol. 1 She climbs up the wire gauze and proceeds to graze among her companions on the bindweed or scabious, without troubling herself further about her eggs, whose hiding-place is only half-filled. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Later on, the blossoms of lime trees, flowers of the honeysuckle, bramble, petunias, scabious, and a host of others. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Patches of purple heath alternated with lilac scabious and pale hare-bells. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The garden is flooded with sunshine; and the marigolds, the phlox, the jasmines, the scabious and the mallows push their heads above their white railing. The Choice of Life “However, here, dearie, is another plant not quite so romantic, the old brown scabious, or ‘turf-weed.’ Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel I find the first in July on the flowers of the sea scabious; I find the second at the end of May and in June on the heads of the �les d'Hy�res everlasting. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Wild thyme continues to bloom—the shepherd's thyme—wild mignonette, blue scabious, white dropwort, yellow bedstraw, and the large purple blooms of greater knapweed. Nature Near London Quenrede, protesting her scepticism, but all the same palpably enjoying the magic experiment, picked an indifferent nosegay of the few buttercups, hawkweeds, and late pieces of scabious which were the only flowers available. A Popular Schoolgirl The friends of one's childhood, purple scabious and yellow toad-flax, seemed to nod their heads in welcome; and the hedgerows were festive with garlands of bryony and Old Man's Beard. Leaves from a Field Note-Book Mix the juice of scabious with fresh lard and apply as an ointment. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The harebells floated no more, the discs of the scabious were shrivelled husks; ladies' bedstraw was straw indeed, but not for ladies' uses. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Its hard woody head with purple florets lifted high above the ground, was greatly disliked by them, as, too, the blue scabious, and indeed most other flowers. Nature Near London When the wind blew, ripples raced over the bending grasses, and from their midst shone out mauve scabious and flashed occasional poppies. Children of the Mist There the scabious mourned, and processions of poppies stretched out in line, with deathly odour, unfolding heavy blooms of feverish brilliance. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Some who read the above may know scabious by other names as the "morning bride" or "sweet scabious" or "devil's bit," etc. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada There was a pot of flowers on the table—purple scabious, and tall cow-parsley, gathered from the orchard, where no one had yet had time to cut the ragged hay beneath the trees. Harvest I undertake that, if rest-harrow and scabious and corn-cockle invade the garden, I shall never use a hoe on them. The Pleasures of Ignorance The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 She gives us the wild-flowers by their actual names,—snowdrop, primrose, columbine, iris, scabious. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold Take scabious, the green herb and bruise it. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada A yellow chicory, quite leafless, was still blooming on the stony banks, and I also, found a white scabious. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Lovely blue bell-flowers grow in patches; golden ragwort, two sorts of field scabious, yellow toad-flax, and occasionally some white campion remain almost into winter. A Cotswold Village Bluebells and scabious made a haze of mauve, and everywhere the warm, sandy stalks of the dried grasses shone yellow through the patch. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story We have only to stretch out our hands as we lie to gather half a dozen spikes of lavender, wild thyme, rosemary, Deptford pink, melilot, blue pimpernel, and white scabious. The Roof of France The common field scabious have many hairy, soft, whitish green leaves, some of which are very small and rough on the edges, others have hairy green leaves deeply and finely divided and branched a little. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada After this—August, September, October—our uplands faint out in semitones: grey scabious, grey harebell, pale bed-straw, white meadowsweet, like the lace of an old lady's cap. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution I found the fly, now identified, sucking the nectar of flowers, especially of the pink scabious and thistle, plants common in the Troad. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 A red dead-nettle, a mauve thistle, white and pink bramble flowers, a white strawberry, a little yellow tormentil, a broad yellow dandelion, narrow hawkweeds, and blue scabious, are all in flower in the lane. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Their feet were bedded deep in sweet fern and wild raspberries, and golden-rod, and purple scabious, and tall blue campanulas. Two Years Ago, Volume II. In a postscript, Virginia recommended particularly to Paul's care two kinds of seed, those of the violet and scabious. Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre The hawk-weed, like the scabious, was termed "devil's bit," because the root looks as if it had been bitten off. The Folk-lore of Plants Strong woody knapweed endures it, so does toadflax and pale blue scabious, and wild mignonette. The Life of the Fields Only Hal from time to time gathered a flower for the young lady, scabious and globe flowers, and once a very pink wild rose, mingled with white ones. The Herd Boy and His Hermit The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts. The Longest Journey In a postscript, Virginia particularly recommended to Paul's attention two kinds of seed,—those of the violet and the scabious. Paul and Virginia The scabious," she added, "produces a beautiful flower of a pale blue, and a black ground spotted with white. Paul and Virginia I have also sent a few seeds of violets, daisies, buttercups, poppies and scabious, which I picked up in the fields. Paul and Virginia |
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