"Pimpernel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wallflowers,* with their bitter-sweet odour, like the taste of orange marmalade, pinks, sweet-peas, and mignonette, from her own little garden, or woodland posies that might beseem the hand of the faerie queen, composed of those gems of flowers, the scarlet pimpernel, and the blue anagallis, the rosy star of the wild geranium, with its aromatic crimson-tipped leaves, the snowy star of the white ochil, and that third starry flower the yellow loose-strife, the milk vetch, purple, or pink, or cream coloured, backed by moss-like leaves and lilac blossoms ...
— Aunt Deborah • Mary Russell Mitford
... varieties produced under nature, if two forms hitherto reputed to be varieties be found in any degree sterile together, they are at once ranked by most naturalists as species. For instance, the blue and red pimpernel, which are considered by most botanists as varieties, are said by Gartner to be quite sterile when crossed, and he consequently ranks them as undoubted species. If we thus argue in a circle, the fertility of all varieties produced under nature will ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... laitue romaine.— Take several heads of young, green lettuce; do not wash them; put them into a dish, add some coarsely cut chervil, tarragon and pimpernel and dress it either with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar ...
— Desserts and Salads • Gesine Lemcke
... sundew loves thee well, And the green sward comes creeping to thy brink, And golden saxifrage and pimpernel Lean down to thee their perfumed heads to drink; And heavy with the weight of bees doth bend White clover, and ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... Pliny, 'Nat. Hist.' xxiv. 62. Linnaeus has taken selago as his name for club-moss, but Pliny here compares the herb to savin, which grows to the height of several feet. Samolum is water-pimpernel in the Linnaean classification. Others identify it with the pasch-flower, which, however, is far from being a ...
— Early Britain—Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare
... of larger size It modest opes its purple eyes; And those who love the flowers know well The little Scarlet Pimpernel. ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... the Caesars," the words gave, to any one who had a clear idea of a Caesar, and of his dress, a better, and even stricter, account of the flower than if I had only said, with Mr. Sowerby, "petals bright scarlet;" which might just as well have been said of a pimpernel, or scarlet geranium;—but of neither of these latter should I have said "robed in purple of Caesars." What I meant was, first, that the poppy leaf {88} looks dyed through and through, like glass, or Tyrian tissue; ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin |
