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Common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals.
cuckoo flower
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Lychins floscuculi
1
Fine gold grasses and
ragged
robin
made a latticework for the empty stone windows.
2
A streetwalker, rather, a
ragged
robin
,
sprawled half on her front and half on her side.
3
The billowy meadow-grass, the tall red sorrel, the untidy,
ragged
robin
,
all the yearly-recurring May miracles!
4
He smoothed the
ragged
robin
's
hair and stood.
5
And that's London pride, and that's
ragged
robin
.
6
Doris brought in the first violets on the fifteenth, with a few wisps of saxifrage and
ragged
robin
.
7
He gambolled along, smelling and rooting among the
ragged
robin
and starwort in the hedges like an unbroken collie.
8
Species such as
ragged
robin
and oxslips now have a fairly good hold and I suspect the wet year may help considerably.
9
We have
ragged
robin
,
campion, meadowsweet and angelica to look forward to, but the first plants to reveal themselves were the primroses.
10
In previous years, it has been too wet to cut, a delight to the thistles and detriment to the orchids and
ragged
robin
.
11
Cat learned that one plant made your breath sweet, another cured your cough, and that the small pink one,
ragged
robin
,
was very powerful indeed.
12
It was the year of Miss Blomfield's marriage that
Ragged
Robin
's
wife died.
13
Ragged
robin
,
common spotted orchid and fuchsia dress the hedgerows.
14
Ragged
robins
were arranged as a centerpiece, and fluttering blue tissue butterflies marked the places.
15
Presently, he heard her low-voiced song as she came through the orange grove beyond the
Ragged
Robin
hedge.
16
I was so thoroughly converted to the side of
Ragged
Robin
's
wife, that I at once pressed some of my charity money on Mrs.
ragged
robin
ragged