Leprosy was a scabious disease of a dreadful character. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Among the profusion of flowers you can find scabious, the bedstraws, vetches, ragwort. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on Soil] Reference
They also liked the blue roundels of field scabious and fragrant pink mats of wild thyme. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
The Scotch argus butterflies were flitting over the bog myrtle, ling and devil's-bit scabious. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Loch Ruthven] Reference
Mauve scabious and darker purple knapweed wave their heads in the aftermath of a summer thunderstorm. From Wordnik.com. [Butterflies: out of the blue] Reference
Some of the butterflies were seeking nectar from the purple-blue scabious flowers that lined the path. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Loch Ruthven] Reference
The BRUNONIA SERICEA, with its scabious-like heads of flowers, was common; and the blue flowered HARDENBERGIA. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Later on, the blossoms of lime trees, flowers of the honeysuckle, bramble, petunias, scabious, and a host of others. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
‘They are all extraordinarily sweet,’ said Siegmund to the full-mouthed scabious and the awkward, downcast ragwort. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
There were perhaps a half-dozen trucks in Boquichicos-idle, scabious with rust, tires starting to sag: where was there to drive?. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
As we walked through dense patches of devil's bit scabious, scores of peacock butterflies – sometimes two to a flower head – rose and fluttered around us. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Durham coast] Reference
His choices to identify purple, for example — sheep's scabious (Jasione montana Web Link) and judas flower Web Link — have very different colors. 2 Web Link. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
The road passes a fir-wood, bright with golden-rod and ragwort and soft blue scabious, and by-and-by turns eastward, and reaches the scattered village of Brendon. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Seed-pods of blue scabious, and some lingering blooms. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917] Reference
Patches of purple heath alternated with lilac scabious and pale hare-bells. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
Strong woody knapweed endures it, so does toadflax and pale blue scabious, and wild mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
Birdsfoot trefoil, cowslip, field scabious, lady's bedstraw, knapweed and yarrow may also be in the mix. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
'They are all extraordinarily sweet,' said Siegmund to the full-mouthed scabious and the awkward, downcast ragwort. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
I have also sent a few seeds of violets, daisies, buttercups, poppies and scabious, which I picked up in the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Paul et Virginie. English] Reference
In a postscript, Virginia particularly recommended to Paul's attention two kinds of seed, -- those of the violet and the scabious. From Wordnik.com. [Paul et Virginie. English] Reference
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust has been surveying 260 miles of verges and has found greater knapweed, clustered bellflower and small scabious. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Only Hal from time to time gathered a flower for the young lady, scabious and globe flowers, and once a very pink wild rose, mingled with white ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Herd Boy and His Hermit] Reference
The garden is flooded with sunshine; and the marigolds, the phlox, the jasmines, the scabious and the mallows push their heads above their white railing. From Wordnik.com. [The Choice of Life] Reference
We have only to stretch out our hands as we lie to gather half a dozen spikes of lavender, wild thyme, rosemary, Deptford pink, melilot, blue pimpernel, and white scabious. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
Note 2: The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “scabious, "and “sheep," def. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
"The scabious," she added, "produces a beautiful flower of a pale blue, and a black ground spotted with white. From Wordnik.com. [Paul et Virginie. English] Reference
Harebell and scabious and tormentil. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
The purple scabious, too, nodded cheerfully. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Sweet scabious. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Devil's-bit scabious. From Wordnik.com. [Unpleasant-sounding plants I learned about today, with a preemptive Simpsons quote.] Reference
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