“Not of course at all!” replied Francie, who used a particularly expensive essence of gillyflower herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Chancery] Reference

He knew gillyflower tea from the Temple, where it occasionally appeared with the morning bread, and it did seem to wake him up when he felt a little foggy or sleepy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

A very pretty picture was she, reader. -- with such a face as you sometimes see painted in those wayside shrines of sunny Italy, where the lamp burns pale at evening, and gillyflower and cyclamen are renewed with every morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference

Add lesser quantities (the recipe says a denier) of the following spices: galingale, cloves (no more than 1/2 teaspoon, I suggest), gillyflower (if you can get it, which I have never succeeded in doing), long pepper (Asian groceries have this, sometimes), nutmeg, cardamon, mace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even in a little thing] Reference

I might as well try to whiten a clove gillyflower!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume] Reference

"Not of course at all!" replied Francie, who used a particularly expensive essence of gillyflower herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

The profusion of sweet-peas, double poppies, bluebottles, stock gillyflower, and roses, I never saw equalled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

They no longer mentioned the gillyflower and the daffodil, but permitted themselves a general reference to Flora's vernal wreath.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Only a few flowers of autumn were visible, such as the fleabane and red gillyflower, autumn colchicums in the ravine, and under the beeches bracken and tufts of northern heather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen] Reference

The youth recognizes the seek-no-further, buried beneath a dozen other varieties, the moment he catches a glance of its eye, or the bonny-cheeked Newtown pippin, or the gentle but sharp-nosed gillyflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Sunshine] Reference

There bloomed the flower of the bitter orange, as it were pearls and coral, the rose whose redness puts to shame the cheeks of the fair, the violet, like sulphur on fire by night, the myrtle, the gillyflower, the lavender, the peony and the blood-red anemone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

My mother could put it up safely, but since I had left her it was always coming down, like flax from a distaff; and though I had in general a tolerably fresh and rosy complexion, heat outside and agitation within made my whole face, nose and all, instantly become the colour of a clove gillyflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Pearls] Reference

“I'll get the seed of that mottled gillyflower from my mother as soon as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him]

There was Eriin Offaw, already embarked on what promised to be a long career of breaking hearts, and Ticia Wook, blond, fragile, fragrant and graceful as a gillyflower, but, like all Wooks, remote and proud. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Araminta Station]

"I'll get the seed of that mottled gillyflower from my mother as soon as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference

Bow’d to the gillyflower bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gillyflower of Gold] Reference

The gillyflower blossom’d new.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gillyflower of Gold] Reference

Bow’d o’er the gillyflower bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gillyflower of Gold] Reference

The gillyflower is sweet and so are you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Mother Goose] Reference

Your head sall be busk’d wi’ gillyflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gardener] Reference

A GOLDEN gillyflower to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gillyflower of Gold] Reference

22. gillyflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

"Nor do she know gillyflower from larkspur.    From Wordnik.com.  [My beloved South,] Reference