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Meanings of harebell in English

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Sometimes placed in genus Scilla.

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      Examples for "bluebell"
      Examples for "bluebell"
      1
      The ash, the well & the bluebell is published by Makaro Press.
      Radio NZ
      2
      She was just an ordinary bluebell in a large, exotic flower garden.
      Rakes and radishes
      3
      Who wished she was a bluebell and had a robe of blue.
      Agahta christie: an autobiography
      4
      A bit like a mauve bluebell it's pretty but not spectacularly so.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Tessa's eyes grew round with wonder, and bluer than the bluest bluebell.
      The Lamp in the Desert
      1
      They came to a lane bordered with copse, blue with wild hyacinth.
      Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife
      2
      The name Bluebell just describes those wild hyacinth eyes.
      Bluebell / A Novel
      3
      At last he saw a boy of twelve years old, on a path overgrown with wild hyacinth.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
      4
      Philip made all the haste that was compatible with gathering a handful of wild hyacinth and meadow narcissus for poor Maria.
      Deerbrook
      5
      It thrives wherever the wild hyacinth flourishes, and is believed by some to grow best where the earth below is rich in metal.
      Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
      1
      The little children ran hither and thither with big bunches of primroses or sheaves of blue wood-hyacinths, singing.
      Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
      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)
      About this term
      Harebell through the time