The small aromatic flower which we call heliotrope, with its violet hue and delightful perfume, more nearly answers the description. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
It was marked out by something called heliotrope cyanosis. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
Glauber's salt, then top with 2 oz. Tannin heliotrope. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
She had soft blond hair and she smelled like heliotrope. From Wordnik.com. [Bailey White: 'What Would They Say in Birmingham?'] Reference
Begonias, fuchsias, heliotrope and coleus are often used. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
"Or that voile with the heliotrope flowers?" supplemented Nan. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
The skin was a pale chartreuse in color, with heliotrope spots. From Wordnik.com. [Cum Grano Salis] Reference
He knew that he would loathe the scent of heliotrope henceforth. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
"The bride's mother was handsomely attired in heliotrope stain.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference
At a six o'clock that invaded even Union Square with heliotrope dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
A favorite dress for travelling is heliotrope cashmere, with bonnet to match. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
It bulged in the middle, and had a chartreuse rind with heliotrope spots on it. From Wordnik.com. [Cum Grano Salis] Reference
If I should find that I said heliotrope, I'd give my adolescence a pretty high grade. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
He springs up with his muddy feet on the shoulders of her beautiful heliotrope dress. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
There were geraniums, and pinks; a sweet heliotrope, and a rose-bush with a pink rose. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Blue and His Friends] Reference
The valerian, often wrongly called "mountain heliotrope," is very common on the grassy slopes. 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
Safranine, Magenta all brands, Tannin heliotrope, all brands of Neutral violet, Methyl violet. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Nesta opened a door, and led Betty into a darkened room, full of sweet scents of heliotrope and roses. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
There is also heliotrope perfume prepared from coal-tar, and other extracts for scenting toilet soaps. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
She wondered what Mr. Harding was going to do with the heliotrope and verbena he was selecting so lavishly. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The colour ranged at first from light heliotrope to flatman's blue, but later was standardized as salmon pink. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
No shade of purple or heliotrope should be worn by any one having blue eyes -- it seems to make the blue paler. From Wordnik.com. [Make Your Own Hats] Reference
A large picture hat surmounted it, and her little person was clothed in a vivid heliotrope dress of the latest mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
One suite of rooms is pink, and one white, and one is palest heliotrope, and yet another black, and there are many others. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
As he went, a little breeze ran through the garden, wafting the caressing, over-sweet perfume of heliotrope to his nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
'You will wear the lilies then, unless the heliotrope scent clings to them too,' he said, gathering up the obnoxious flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Among the more familiar growths a few foreign bushes had been given place, a rose, a heliotrope, and a small, frightened cyclamen. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
She greeted Mildred also with a parade of mundane elegance, and sat down deliberately on the sofa, spreading out her heliotrope skirts. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Briest and his wife were sitting in view of it, looking at it and the heliotrope, which had been spared, and which now bordered the stone. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
The brilliant uniforms of the officers mingled with the more delicate hues of ecru and rose, sky-blue and palest heliotrope of the loggias. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
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