Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock.
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Examples for "common foxglove "
Examples for "common foxglove "
1 Their very hair was laden with odor, their fingers flower-sweet, their minds took on the many colors of their exquisite surroundings.
1 Her white hands, with their rose-pink nails and little round dimples at the finger roots, felt hard and remorseless as steel claws.
1 The word for thimble in Latin is digitalis , from which comes the plant's scientific name, Digitalis purpurea .
2 Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae).-Extremelysterile, only a few poor capsules being produced.
1 Like a fairy bell came the sound of her voice upon his ears:
2 The clear notes of the refrain, struck regularly with the sound of a fairy bell , had begun to help and soothe her.
3 It was at this very moment that Bellah, who was skimming the milk in the farm dairy, heard the fairy bell tinkle violently.
4 At midnight a little elf, whose home was deep in the heart of an oak tree, came forth and rang a fairy bell .
5 Isn't it like a chime of fairy bells , heard in a dream?
6 Wild flax is always fairy flax, and harebells are fairy bells .
7 On their backs the sleigh-bells jingled, merrily like fairy bells .
8 They were sounds of delicate music and of tiny laughter, like the ringing of fairy bells .
9 This merriment might be the music of fairy bells , such stuff as dreams are made of.
10 "Free, free!" she sang, and her voice tinkled as a chime of fairy bells .
11 Bettina was swinging her own rings back and forth, and they gave out a silvery tinkle like a chime of fairy bells .
12 It seems forever, but it's probably just a few minutes, before the control chamber brightens, small alarms go off like little fairy bells .
13 She ran into the house and all the way up the two steep flights of stairs, laughing like a dozen peals of fairy bells .
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Translations for fairy bell