Young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal.
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Examples for "love-lies-bleeding"
Examples for "love-lies-bleeding"
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Shooting up through the petunias and the love-lies-bleeding is a row of sunflowers almost as tall as the ones now yellowing the Nebraska plains.
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"Now," said Mrs. Dunwiddy, "the devil grass, the St. John the Conqueror root, and the love-lies-bleeding."
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The scarlet tassel -flower utterly refuses to unfold his brave plumes.
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The tall pagoda, like a velvet flower, blossoms against the sky; the Sacred Mountain fades, and in the town a child laughs suddenly.
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And lo, what she carried in her beak twinkled and trembled and shone in many colors, like a drop of dew on a velvet flower-cheek.
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A 1937 calendar, paper dolls, blue bow and velvet flowers all cosseted in a chocolate box.
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On mantelets of silk, entirely embroidered velvet ribbon is worn; or stamped velvet flowers, upon the stuff, produce a very pleasing effect.