poppy-head

He came close, and placed his hand on the poppy-head of the seat.

Two on a Tower 2006

With these words Mr. Mordacks took from an inner pocket a little pill-box, and thence produced a globe, or rather an oblate spheroid, of bright gold, rather larger than a musket-ball, but fluted or crenelled like a poppy-head, and stamped or embossed with marks like letters.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Antryg came over beside her and rested his long hands on the elaborate poppy-head finials of the tall chair back.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

Now, you go down there in this kind of weather, and you go down there and work your eight hours, and you come out at what we called (up at the top) the poppy-head.

Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

He holds a poppy-head, which we do not recollect on his statue or gems, and the Epidaurian snake is at his side.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

No one could believe, upon looking at this little ball, hanging on its fragile stem, and resembling both in color and shape a shrunken poppy-head, or some of the acorn tribe, what magical results could arise from merely wetting its surface -- yet so it is.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

Indeed, in its unfolded state, its resemblance to a flattened poppy-head, and other seed vessels, offers strong argument in favor of the latter opinion.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

There were mahogany trees with their curious lop-sided leaves, the copal-plant with its green egg-like fruit, from which copal oozes when it is cut, like opium from a poppy-head, palms with clusters of oily nuts, palmettos, and guavas.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Peneleos then drew his sword and smote him on the neck, so that both head and helmet came tumbling down to the ground with the spear still sticking in the eye; he then held up the head, as though it had been a poppy-head, and showed it to the Trojans, vaunting over them as he did so.

The Iliad of Homer 1898

He was carrying, insecurely, a jug of poppy-head and camomile, which had been prescribed as a lotion.

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892