"D'you know that the green of the cowslip is the most beautiful green in all Nature, Joan?. From Wordnik.com. [Lying Prophets] Reference
Our cowslip is the English marsh-marigold. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
Bedlam cowslip: the paigle, or larger kind of cowslip. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
"That does seem to be the penalty for wearing a cowslip," Justin said. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
There was also a honey-suckle, and a tall and very pretty kind of cowslip. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
I like making cowslip fields grow and apple-trees bloom at a moment's notice. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
"Instead of a bird that will be a butterfly," interposed Ivy; "or a cowslip!". From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
Near it was a cowslip plant with a ripe slip, so she harvested that and donned it. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
Use primrose and St. - John's-wort, cowslip and rosemary, some bloodstone on your altar. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Falls]
Corresponding alterations may be met with in cultivated tulips, in the cowslip and other plants. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
We happened to have already been growing this primula veris, the English cowslip, started from seed years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Planting For Fairies « Fairegarden] Reference
There are (or once were) the prim squares, each with its cowslip border, and the stiffly regular little hedgerows. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Tom had evidently exhausted all of his knowledge of flowers with his cowslip comment, and seemed stumped by the idea of roses. From Wordnik.com. [The Wayward Muse] Reference
Mauve, green and grey — the mauve of the Victorian age, the green of the cowslip, the grey of glistering, weathering granite. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
To Naseby he went in 1842, in company with Dr. Arnold, and 'plucked two gowans and a cowslip from the burial heaps of the slain'. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Well, for the future, I'll drown all high thoughts in the Lethe of cowslip-wine; as for fame, renown, reputation, take 'em, critics!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
His good nature had taken off the keenest edge of her sufferings, and nuts with cowslip wine began to assert their legitimate influence. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The natural sedative properties of wood betony, chamo-mile leaves, cowslip petals, and valerian root put the already drowsy moose to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wing]
Spring-touched, the blackbird sang; the cowslip changed. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference
He is the oldest cowslip gatherer of them all, I fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Deerbrook] Reference
'Oh, Mr. Wingfield, you are come to see our cowslip feast.'. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
The violet and cowslip, bluebell and rose, are known to thousands; the veronica is overlooked. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
He had plucked a cowslip and was looking into it so intently that he neither heard nor saw her. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2] Reference
Mrs Rowland was mortified that the Greys had been beforehand with her in the idea of a cowslip-gathering. From Wordnik.com. [Deerbrook] Reference
Dunstane wrote entreating her to pass the month -- her favourite time of the violet yielding to the cowslip -- at Copsley. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
But, when enamelling the ground, the cowslip, the king-cup, -- nay, the marigold and dandelion even, -- are resplendently beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference
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