The word anemone comes from a Greek word which means breath, wind, or spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
The frost-breaking anemone is the only bit of colour on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
Fortunately, the anemone is much easier to grow and vastly more reliable than this capricious woodland tree. From Wordnik.com. [Vignettes from the K-State Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog] Reference
The Arabs still call the anemone wounds of the Naaman. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 32. The Ritual of Adonis] Reference
The Arabs still call the anemone "wounds of the Naaman.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
It is interesting to know that it was called anemone by the ancient Romans. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Slain by a wound in the thigh inflicted by a wild boar in the chase, the flower called anemone sprang from his blood. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
CLI program 'anemone', which is a frontend for several tasks. From Wordnik.com. [RubyForge Gems] Reference
She loves but one in all the world, an older "anemone" lady, once her teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
Later, when their interest is sure, the pretty name "anemone" will give an added charm. From Wordnik.com. [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference
Tho 'dogrose and anemone are fair in their degree. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
The anemone grows in open places by the woods or the hillside. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Colonies of tiny anemone-like polyps are the living coral tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary] Reference
Bent and twisted, a chair lay in one corner like a beached anemone. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
You clench like a sea anemone, not wanting to mar sensation with words. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the World] Reference
Felica had chosen held a blue-green sea anemone, and it had been one of. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon's Prey]
A Judge who guessed correctly was given a set of purple anemone earrings. From Wordnik.com. [Xone of Contention]
"It is fery goot sea anemone; fery strong, fery perfect; a goot organism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
But when viola shrinks in foggy November from the frost demon, anemone rises. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
The western anemone is a little more deliberate, but is found quite near the snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
We were like one big sea anemone, an organism, waving in a sea of music and bodies and bliss. From Wordnik.com. [Suzie Heumann: I'll Have What She's Having: How Mirror Neurons and Music Increase Pleasure] Reference
In the foremost patch of sunshine, at the edge of the path, is a sprinkling of anemone leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference
When I looked at the woman she seemed to curl at the edges, like an anemone poked with a stick. From Wordnik.com. [The Island] Reference
"The flower of Death" is the name that the Chinese give to the wind-flower -- the wood-anemone. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
"But, oh, how pretty this sea-anemone is!" cried she in ecstasies, not noticing his little bit of satire. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
And more curious still, in the same shell we usually find a pretty crab, who acts as porter to the anemone. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
Gilmour had taken charge of while she went anemone-gathering, after this had been discarded from the bucket. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
The following varieties are suggested for special observation and study: hepatica, violet, anemone, columbine. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Ilya Kolmanovsky This sea anemone is on a vertical rock face, allowing its tentacles to hang downward like hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Arctic Life] Reference
With the violets, the beautiful blush-bells of the anemone come garlanded with their graceful leaves, plentifully enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
Thus, our little rue-leaved anemone might belong to the meadow rues or to the wind-flowers, at the pleasure of the botanist. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
A deeper purple, as in the centre of the anemone, is obtained by the combination of the crimson powder with the deepest blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
And even John Adams could find no better name than "horrid chasm" for the gulf at Egg Rock, where he first saw the sea-anemone. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
Like some deep ocean sea anemone, they may appear to offer shelter in their soft looking folds, but watch out — they'll eat you up. From Wordnik.com. [What Hands Can Do] Reference
Judge of my surprise, when, on opening his next letter, out dropped, from those folds of metropolitan paper, a veritable double anemone. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
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