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Usage examples of poppy.

A moment later the hot-water bag reached the floor in as noiseless a manner as that previously adopted by the remains of the little pill, and Penrod once more bespread his soul with poppies.

The mushrooms, the fetishes, the wool and the wine, the mascara jars, the poppies, the crickets, the poison arrows, the bravura helixes of juicy smoke all spun like the stars: onward, outward, inward, backward, sideways, upside down, and forever.

Poppy decided that if extroversion was inherited, Thea took hers from her birth father, since Heather was more quiet.

The outlying fields grew first garish with golden ragweed and scarlet poppies, and then dull green again with the brown-knotted rushes and sombre sedge, and all other marish growths, until the re-annexation was complete, and they once more were homogeneous part and parcel of the conquering bog.

Whenever he rooted himself in a meadow of buttercups and poppies, or amidst purple monkshood and the peering, sightless faces of field pansies, or within sight of sweet pink clover and tufted violet vetch and sunny ragwort, it appeared at first that here was simply a gratuitous explosion of loveliness, to daze the bees and butterflies.

Garstin, Naomi Harries, Gent Koco, Polly Mackwood, Olly Marshall, John Morrice, John Roe, Tim Shephard, Poppy Thomas.

Then she tooke a great quantity of wheat, of barly, poppy seede, peason, lintles, and beanes, and mingled them altogether on a heape saying : Thou evil favoured girle, thou seemest unable to get the grace of thy lover, by no other meanes, but only by diligent and painefull service, wherefore I will prove what thou canst doe : see that thou separate all these graines one from another, disposing them orderly in their quantity, and let it be done before night.

Poppy and was rubbing her plumy ears, being licked to pieces for his kindness.

They suited the days gone by, When I pulled the poppies and pansies, When I hunted the butterfly, With one who has long been sleeping, A stranger to doubts and cares, And to sowing that ends in reaping Thistles, and thorns, and tares.

The meadow was being recut, the great red poppies were reopening in the garden.

Poppy put her right foot up on the coffee table and began fooling with her sneaker lace, like it was loose and she needed to retie it.

Poppy took it all in--warm air, snowless streets, palm trees, a skyline of buildings rather than hills--but what she felt most was the satisfaction of having gotten this far.

And Uwen unbraided a bit of poppy bread and wrapped it about a bit of ham as a new muttering of thunder foretold rain on the celebration outside.

Well, my dear reader, this little plant which should spring up like the poppies in the wheat, this plant which has never been seen growing higher than watercress, but which should overtop the oaks, this undiscoverable plant, I know where it grows.

Poppy took to her bed, and even Whippet was more solicitous than I had supposed possible.