The modest violet, the jack-in-the-pulpit, even the four-leaf clovers will tell you stories about the forest and the field, so that wherever you walk you will be surrounded by your friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
There were sedgy plants in bloom, jack-in-the-pulpit, and what might have been a lily, with a more euphonious name. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Salem] Reference
Britain -- the "lords and ladies" of the village lanes, the foreign counterpart of our well-known jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian-turnip, with its purple-streaked canopy, and sleek "preacher" standing erect beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
Occasionally, however, as in the cypripedium and in certain of the arums, or "jack-in-the-pulpit," and aristolochias, the welcome becomes somewhat aggressive, the guest being forcibly detained awhile after tea, or, as in the case of our milkweed, occasionally entrapped for life. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
It was only to be the edging on a shawl for her, but he spent three days and two nights on it; and then she asked him to make it over with jack-in-the-pulpit inset, because she was sure to grow tired very soon of Sweet William; then she changed her mind about jack-in-the-pulpit and decided on wintergreen berries. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
They remind me so much of jack-in-the-pulpit, I’m assuming they are from the same family. From Wordnik.com. [Feb Bloom Day 2009 « Fairegarden] Reference
There are hostas, forget-me-knots, bloodroot, a bleeding heart, a jack-in-the-pulpit, and some other things I can’t remember. From Wordnik.com. [A man on a toilet and a sheep with no name « knitnut.net] Reference
Another related plant is jack-in-the-pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
I wonder, for example, what forget-me-nots are in French, or jack-in-the-pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [vivace - French Word-A-Day] Reference
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