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Meanings of harebell in English

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Sometimes placed in genus Scilla.

Usage of harebell in English
1
What new presence quivered in every listening harebell and every fearful windflower?
Gala-Days
2
Hence, the harebell being in bloom, was assigned to the saint:-
The Folk-lore of Plants
3
The river is as blue as the inside of a harebell.
An Old Town By the Sea
4
A woman's fair repute is like a blue harebell- atouchcan wither it.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
5
Greenery fills the open space, and wild antirrhinum and harebell brighten the grey walls.
In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a "Devious Trav...
6
The conjecture takes some little plausibility from Shakespeare's elsewhere linking primrose and harebell together:
Adventures in Criticism
7
A harebell, much as I have always loved harebells, never moved me that way!
The Flight of the Shadow
8
Yet to-day the peaceful clumps of cistus and the trembling harebell blossomed on the battlefield.
The Blotting Book
9
The sea is like a harebell, and there are two battleships lying in the bay.
The Trespasser
10
Vivacious, charming, light as a harebell in the soft breeze is the Scherzo in E flat.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
11
The mountains had stood around to shelter her, and she was like the harebell of the hills.
Doom Castle
12
In every crevice, the harebell, the foxglove, and innumerable other flowers peep forth, and swing in the wind.
Travellers' Stories
13
Indeed her delicate face, above the many-hued garment, was like a harebell growing in a gaudy nasturtium bed.
The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
14
Not a harebell here; isn't it provoking, when they grow in tufts up there, where one can't reach them.
Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
15
Have been finding beautiful bunches of harebell (Cornua uniflora) in the clefts of the rocks along the river.
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
16
I loved the harebell, the first new flower the river gave me, as I had never loved a flower before.
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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