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Meanings of love-in-idleness in English

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A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "heartsease"
        Examples for "heartsease"
        1
        Averan looked up and, despite the heartsease, his words filled her with sadness.
        Wizardborn
        2
        Between that rose and this heartsease my poor child was ill.
        The Lily of the Valley
        3
        Hadria carried still the drooping yellow heartsease that the little girl had given her.
        The Daughters of Danaus
        4
        Here was escape, heartsease, happiness-herein this bottled impishness.
        The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
        5
        Did you happen to notice the bed of heartsease?
        The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
        1
        The commonest were wild pansy and forget-me-not, and the rhododendron grew in quantities.
        Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet
        2
        Under the edge of the footpath through the wheat a wild pansy blooms.
        Nature Near London
        3
        Another gown was a forget-me-not, one a wild pansy, others peonies.
        Reuters
        4
        They are really a wild pansy.
        Her Father's Daughter
        5
        They plucked some of the rich flowers, but also took with them the despised buttercup and the wild pansy.
        Bible Stories and Religious Classics
        1
        Neither like an old family physician nor a new johnny-jump-up; just quiet and cool and pleasant.
        The Second Violin
        1
        Lysimachia vulgaris, Euphrasia officinalis, Rhinanthus crista-galli, and Viola tricolor come under this head.
        The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
        2
        Nearly the same result followed with some crossed and self-fertilised plants of Viola tricolor.
        The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...
        3
        Strictly analogous experiments with Viola tricolor and Lathyrus odoratus gave a very different result.
        The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...
        4
        This was evidently the case with the crossed plants of Viola tricolor, which ultimately quite overwhelmed the self-fertilised.
        The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...
        5
        In my first experiments on Viola tricolor I was unsuccessful in raising seedlings, and obtained only one full-grown crossed and self-fertilised plant.
        The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...
        Usage of love-in-idleness in English
        1
        Oberon must have touched her eyes with the juice of Love-in-idleness.
        Hyperion
        2
        "Now," said Oberon to this little sprite, "fetch me the flower called Love-in-idleness.
        Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
        Frequent collocations
        Love-in-idleness through the time