touch-me-nots

On the right, touch-me-nots also from the farmer's market.

Project Flower Box Rescue Carrie 2010

On the right, touch-me-nots also from the farmer's market.

Archive 2010-06-01 Carrie 2010

There is a secret flowerbetween your legs behinda thicket of thornsand a thousand touch-me-nots.

Professor Niyi Osundare Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2007

There is a secret flowerbetween your legs behinda thicket of thornsand a thousand touch-me-nots.

Archive 2007-03-01 Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2007

But as he drooped his head, his eye was attracted by a heap of touch-me-nots, pomegranate blossom and various kinds of fallen flowers, which covered the ground thick as tapestry, and he heaved a sigh.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Each of these pretty homes had a garden in front fenced with white palings and opulently stocked with hollyhocks, marigolds, touch-me-nots, prince's-feathers, and other old-fashioned flowers; while on the windowsills of the houses stood wooden boxes containing moss rose plants and terra-cotta pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

But as he drooped his head, his eye was attracted by a heap of touch-me-nots, pomegranate blossom and various kinds of fallen flowers, which covered the ground thick as tapestry, and he heaved a sigh.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

It was a genuine peasant's garden, with touch-me-nots and mignonette in bloom, and in one place the mallows grew so tall that they formed a lane.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

Each of these pretty homes had a garden in front fenced with white palings and opulently stocked with hollyhocks, marigolds, touch-me-nots, prince's-feathers, and other old-fashioned flowers; while on the windowsills of the houses stood wooden boxes containing moss -

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

Some seeds are snapped out, as the touch-me-nots and witch-hazels; some are supplied with flat wing-like surfaces to be borne by the wind, as the maple-keys and elm seeds; some have bristles or down upon which to float in the air, as the lilies, dandelions, and lettuces; some have hooks by which to attach themselves to the coats of passing animals; and others have yet other devices for getting to pastures new.

The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young Margaret Warner Morley 1890