Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea.
1 It was the althea - bud that I had offered to the sea-nymphs.
2 There is no need that I should send out the althea -fragment .
3 A faded flower, an althea - bud , was still pendent from my coat.
4 And then we would catch bees in the althea blooms.
5 As I paused in my rowing to watch the althea - bud set afloat, I heard a tiny splash in the waters.
6 They went into the house, the children scattering and peeping from corners and from behind the althea bushes in the yard.
7 It was for a minute only, for near a turn in the path he bent forward and disappeared in a thicket of althea bushes.
8 Naturally, Althea was a changed person in the eyes of her husband.
9 There's no Althea Burnside living in De Pere, I know that much.
10 And yet the brothers of Queen Althea kept on muttering and complaining.
11 In June, the month of roses, came Hubert Lisle to visit Althea .
12 A reveals to Q that he met Althea on a park bench.
13 Althea was among the guests, but she took little notice of Hermon.
14 Her children were now there, and Althea , and further back the servants.
15 But Althea was not won so easily from her stronghold of duty.
16 After high School I went with his daughter Althea for a while.
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