wild-flower

Thou know'st the fragrance that the wild-flower yields

Letter 31 2009

A field with a standing crop of wheat had a wide wild-flower margin with ox-eye daisies, red clover, sainfoin, poppies and trefoils – to name a few – and I was disappointed not to see a single butterfly, perhaps because it was overcast.

Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

Hafiz had the grasses of his gardens dotted with the little wild-flower plants specifically for the delight of his Linyaari friends.

Massage 2010

Polychrome, her beautiful gauzy robes floating around her like a rainbow cloud, went first, dancing back and forth and darting now here to pluck a wild-flower or there to watch a beetle crawl across the path.

Love Letters 2010

Like birding, wild-flower viewing is a beloved form of tourism for nature lovers.

OUTDOORS: IN BLOOMING COLOR 2007

I look at her like a little wild-flower in a field — like a little child at play, sir.

The Newcomes 2006

Sometimes he thought about a world in which the smells were all sweet and fragrant, like the wild-flower fields and woodlands he remembered from his Oregon childhood.

Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

It was all her, from the tiny pink rose she had placed in the shelter of the apple tree to the dancing fuchsias she had placed in shady corners and the wild-flower seeds she had scattered in the lawn, every inch of it her vision and her labour.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

It was all her, from the tiny pink rose she had placed in the shelter of the apple tree to the dancing fuchsias she had placed in shady corners and the wild-flower seeds she had scattered in the lawn, every inch of it her vision and her labour.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Shirley's clear cheek was tinted yet with the colour which had risen into it a few minutes since: the dark lashes of her eyes looking down as she read, the dusk yet delicate line of her eyebrows, the almost sable gloss of her curls, made her heightened complexion look fine as the bloom of a red wild-flower by contrast.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004