And what better place to fall dazed than love-in-a-mist?. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: We Interrupt This Packing To Say: POETRY FRIDAY] Reference
I have planted bulbs of a Mentone creeper, love-in-a-mist, heather, sweet peas and canna seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The love-in-a-mist however is all over buds and I'm very excited every morning, hoping that one of them will have finally opened. From Wordnik.com. [July 15th, 2006] Reference
At large in the unsustaining air, flew clear over the lawn across the breadth of the garden and fell, Icarian, dazed, among hollyhocks, snapdragons, love-in-a-mist, and stood up uninjured, ready to swing and fly over and over. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: We Interrupt This Packing To Say: POETRY FRIDAY] Reference
Self-seeders include annual poppies, foxgloves, lady's mantle, aquilega and love-in-a-mist, which will. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Bread firm sees more 'dough' with P600M plant] Reference
There are few blue flowers, and most of them are small and fragile, like love-in-a-mist and speedwell. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
Milk-worts of all bright and tender tints combined with borage, iris, hawkweeds, harebells, crimson clover, thyme, red snap-dragon, golden asters, and dreamy love-in-a-mist, to weave a marvellous carpet such as the looms of. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference
I was once talking to a lady who had just come over from China, and who wore a dress of soft figured silk of the most perfect love-in-a-mist colour-shade which I had ever seen, even in turning over the wonder-drawers at Liberty's. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
It was a long walk up to the Schatz Alp; there were paths where the pine-trees met overhead, garlanded with wreaths of snow, and the spaces between the wreaths were as blue as love-in-a-mist, an old-fashioned flower that grows in English gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower] Reference
We went for larkspur, delphinium, foxglove and peonies to fill a circle of hanging globes, but most of the flowers were simple - cornflowers, poppies, love-in-a-mist, even docks, grasses and oats picked from the fields of a friendly neighbouring farmer. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Milk-worts of all bright and tender tints combined with borage, iris, hawkweeds, harebells, crimson clover, thyme, red snapdragon, golden asters, and dreamy love-in-a-mist, to weave a marvellous carpet such as the looms of Shiraz or of Cashmere never spread. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
Then an idea struck her, so glorious, that she put the uprooted love-in-a-mist in the weed-basket, instead of planting it again, and went quickly indoors, up to the attics, and from there popped -- really popped, so tight was the fit -- through a trap-door on to the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mapp] Reference
The fig-trees and vines above the growing crops were almost at a full leafiness; scarlet poppies grew thick among the corn; and at the dusty edges of the road, wild roses of a colour singularly vivid and deep, the blue flowers of love-in-a-mist, and some spikes of wine-coloured gladiolus struck strangely on a northern eye. From Wordnik.com. [Eleanor] Reference
"love-in-a-mist," which she had absently rooted up instead of a piece of groundsel, without any bleeding of the heart for one of her sweet flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mapp] Reference
In the context of a hospital, I’d assume he meant one of the following words: nigedase: Lipolytic cpd from the seeds of love-in-a-mist nigella damascena nigericin: An ionophore capable of acting as a carrier for K or Rb or as an exchange carrier for H with K. From Wordnik.com. [UVa Hospital Picket Planned at cvillenews.com] Reference
Also called love-in-a-mist. From Wordnik.com. [The Shad Plank] Reference
It was love-in-a-mist -- one of those illumined pages of. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
By the by, that particular flower you mention isn't only called love-in-a-mist, it's also called devil-in-a-bush. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower] Reference
Other options: cornflower, foxglove, larkspur, sweet alyssum, dianthus, baby's breath, bells of Ireland, blue sage, candytuft, celome, forget-me-nots, love-in-a-mist, snow-on-the-mountain, strawflower, and torenia. From Wordnik.com. [Realty Times Real Estate News Channel] Reference
The big house garden, or gardener's garden, with everything growing in it I hate, but these I love -- fragrant gillyflower and pink and clove-smelling carnation; wallflower, abundant periwinkle, sweet-william, larkspur, love-in-a-mist, and love-lies-bleeding, old-woman's-nightcap, and kiss-me-John-at-the-garden-gate, some times called pansy. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
Picture corn-fields full of love-in-a-mist; orchards of fig-trees, with the grass ablaze with golden pyrethrums; red mallow standing up in the barley; the ground carpeted with blue-and-white convolvulus; masses of carmine-coloured convolvulus densely festooned over the thorn-hedges; on the barest, stoniest of soil stretches of cistus, pale pink to faded mauve; asphodels everywhere; sometimes the wild spring form of the cultivated artichoke, the small variety of the ice-plant, the larkspur, the lupin, and several varieties of lavender. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
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