Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob's Room] Reference

Other wild flowers, such as the convolvulus, close before rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The weasel is a pretty jumper, but this time a tendril of convolvulus upset his aim.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Accordingly, the convolvulus requires an external support, around which it can wind itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The sandhills on the verge of the ocean are carpeted with creepers and the wild convolvulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

From this setting issue spirals of white-belled convolvulus, twigs of pink rest-harrow mingled with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

We could catch the strings of convolvulus with our walking-sticks, as the train passed through the jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

By the bank hung curtains of yellowish creeper, and a big, crimson – pink convolvulus flowered in odd tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

Everything dropped from her — clouds, dress, basket, diamond — all that one had called the creeper and convolvulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference

The blue convolvulus was also seen today for the first time, also a most beautiful small blue flower with a dark purple eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference

The pink balls of the spinous mimosa, and bright flowers, especially the convolvulus and ipomaea, illuminated the dull green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

He is digging up the earth in his green boxes, and carefully sowing the seeds of the scarlet nasturtium, convolvulus, and sweet-pea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A perfectly hardy climbing convolvulus, and a beautiful plant for covering arbours, etc., growing 20 ft. to 30 ft. in one season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening for the Million] Reference

These were laced together by twining convolvulus, so strongly that the weight of both of us could not make way into the clear water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

Our specimen was strung with thin cords made from the fibre of a lliana; I was shown this growth, which looked much like a convolvulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

Two-thirds of the way down was the bowl, like a convolvulus reversed, the convex margin polished and darkened by the frequent kneading of the opium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quiet American]

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

This he finds in such a plant as the convolvulus; in this kind of plant the vertical tendency is lacking, and the spiral principle comes obviously into outer view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

When the creature I now watched hovered before the blossom of a convolvulus whose calyx it tapped with a tongue shaped like a glass probe, it was almost invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Different Stripe] Reference

There was a sort of Oriental grace about Marsa, with her willowy figure, flexible as a Hindoo convolvulus, and her dark Arabian eyes fringed with their heavy lashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Clara smiled; and immediately chose the pale woodbine, or convolvulus, which so carelessly winds in and out among the bushes -- this is an emblem of loving tenderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor] Reference

After skirting the flanks of some of the outlying spurs, we bustled through a tunnel and drew up at a bright little station, draped with great blue and pink convolvulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

As a perfect Argand flame in the usual position has been likened in form to a tulip flower, so the flame of this burner presents the appearance of an inverted convolvulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference

High water drives the wayfarer to the loose, impeding sand, over which the great convolvulus sends its tireless tentacles, to be thrown back twisted and burnt by salt surges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

He saw it creeping into the stained trumpet of a Tyrian convolvulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

Bright poppies flower in its depths, and convolvulus climbs the stalks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

I was less pleased with the tong chow (phonetic spelling of what I believe was water convolvulus), an item suggested by Sandy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chow Times] Reference

Around the hem of the skirt were sprays of pink and white dog-roses, while the bodice was wreathed with tiny pink and white convolvulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornwall's Wonderland] Reference

Far in the thick wheat the streaked convolvulus winds up the stalks, and is not smothered for want of air though wrapped and circled with corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

The straw covers over the knives, the rims of the wheels sink into pimpernel, convolvulus, veronica; the dry earth powders them, and so all beneath is concealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

Under an ancient garden wall among matted bines of trumpet convolvulus, there is a hedge-sparrow's nest overhung with ivy on which even now the last black berries cling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference