In a moment he was gone, past the portulaca and love-lies-bleeding, past. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
You know 'love-lies-bleeding' is a flower, but it sounds allegorical the way I have put it in. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
Madeline sat very still, not saying a word, as she watched him march to and fro between the beds of verbena and love-lies-bleeding and portulaca. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
There were hollyhocks, and noonsleeps, and tiger-lilies, and little patches of moss pinks, the tiny flowers all tangled in with their green foliage, and sweet williams, and love-lies-bleeding; and the children thought there was never such another garden in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Fanny] Reference
A garden, at one end of the house, was red with love-lies-bleeding and coxcombs, their deep hues contrasting with great clumps of marigolds and bachelor's-buttons, all claiming a preemption right over innumerable weeds and any amount of ribbon grass, that struggled hard to drive them out. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
I have been growing it for years as an ornamental, especially the cultivar love-lies-bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [Vineyard Gazette - Top Stories] Reference
Among her favorites are the love-lies-bleeding plants she grew from seeds collected by a musician friend. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Give me yon spray of love-lies-bleeding," she said; then as it rested against the lily in her hand, "Wounds may be cured," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Mortimer] Reference
If only they wouldn't turn snapdragons into antirrhinums, love-lies-bleeding into amaranthus, and red-hot-pokers into kniphofias. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Pinks and columbines, mullein and Canterbury bells, the burning blue of lupin and larkspur, the magenta plush tassels of love-lies-bleeding, the streaked and goffered rosettes of the French marigolds – they have about them the harmonious confusion, the riotous immobility of a crowd of stage peasantry during the principals 'duet. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
"Ay, ay! love-lies-bleeding; no doubt but she'll take care of that. From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
I ain't seen a proper rose nor a love-lies-bleeding, nor a dahlia. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range] Reference
Then she has a beautiful little plot of forget-me-nots; but, above a ', it wad do your honor's heart gude to see the beautiful bed she has of sweet-william and love-lies-bleeding. ". From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
'love-lies-bleeding.'". From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Alas, poor love-lies-bleeding!. From Wordnik.com. [Tiverton Tales] Reference
Or trample love-lies-bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
This is related to love-lies-bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
"love-lies-bleeding," will set seed at longer day-length conditions. From Wordnik.com. [2 The Plants] Reference
"love-lies-bleeding" or "red-hot cattail," a name shared with unrelated plants. From Wordnik.com. [4 Grain Amaranths] Reference
It's got lots of names -- love-lies-bleeding, love-in-idleness, la pensee in French, wild pansy. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
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
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