Either she would be very severe, flat back and front, or she would be tall, fair, dressed in mignonette green, name – Daisy, and smelling of rather sweetish lavender water. From Wordnik.com. [Bliss, and Other Stories] Reference
In order to break up extremes of colours you can always use masses of white flowers, or something like mignonette, which is in effect green. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
"'Is that mignonette which is so oppressively fragrant?' she asked, lifting the bouquet to her nose. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
I'm making this wreath of pink rosebuds and mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly's Playmates] Reference
Sweet alyssum is good for this purpose and so too is mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Then mignonette is absolutely necessary to keep the garden sweet. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
The demure Quaker is like the peculiar fragrance of the mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It was dark, but there was a sweet smell of mignonette and of roses. From Wordnik.com. ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference
"I'll pick some pansies and mignonette for Mother," she said half aloud. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
She brought down some mignonette one morning, which she had grown in her chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
In choosing mignonette seed remember that there is a great difference in mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
"I wonder ...." said she, and they both bent over to pick another piece of mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
The mignonette was massed at the entrance of the garden for pleasing and subdued effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
She was sure to choose the mignonette -- a fair, well-bred, graceful plant like herself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Rose leaves, mignonette, and sweet-scented clover, make fine perfumes, managed in this way. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
And there was always mignonette and nemophila in window-boxes, so sweet in the evening air?. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
Yet Grey bent longest over her own flower, that every childlike soul loves best, -- mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
July was not yet ended, and roses, lilies, and mignonette breathed their fragrance upon the air. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
Eloise loving the mignonette had asked for it, poppies were Josephine's and marigold was for Dee. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
The sober mignonette is too great a favorite to be excluded, though it lends little to the effect. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
You profess to love botany, yet your sole herbarium has been the mignonette in sewing-girls 'windows. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Just as Ellen and I had planted out some tomatoes Mr. Keytel brought some mignonette plants and put them in. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
mignonette has such a small and modest little flower that one thinks always of mignonette in terms of green. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
He managed to slip his head out between the edge of an awning and the mignonette and geraniums of a window-box. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Get saucy: Traditionally, raw oysters are garnished with mignonette sauce -- red-wine vinegar, pepper and shallots. From Wordnik.com. [Oysters Aw, Shucks] Reference
The caterpillars of this insect feed on the leaves of cabbage, cauliflower, turnip, mignonette, and some other plants. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891] Reference
It is hard to believe so many people really like mignonette as profess to do so, it has such a caviare-to-the-general odor. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A fish-basket filled with bunches of lilies, mignonette, deep pink moss-roses shaded to the pale tints of the rose known as the. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
"Please to see, sir; a pretty rose, sir, and these pinks and mignonette, and a bunch of jessamine, sir, and all for one penny.". From Wordnik.com. [Fanny, the Flower-Girl, or, Honesty Rewarded] Reference
She gave him a smile that made his heart do a trick, and when he bent over to help her break a piece of mignonette, his hand touched hers. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
The windows were wide open, the sunblinds were drawn down outside, and the warm air, fragrant with mignonette, streamed in over the window boxes. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Pimpernel, convolvulus, mignonette, marigold, and pansy were English enough, and in addition to these the ox-daisies of our meadows were almost as common here. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
The only thing I had to assure me that it was not all a dream, and that I had really seen her, was the little spray of mignonette, which I carried next my heart. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
There were other flowers, nasturtiums, cornbottles, mignonette, but they had a diminished insignificant look in their tied-up bunches beside the triumph of the roses. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
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