Subtly mottled, as fabric

Usage examples of heather.

It was a hot still day in late summer and this was one of the softer corners of the Dales, sheltered by the enclosing fells from the harsh winds which shrivelled all but the heather and the tough moorland gmss.

For the statues were half-eaten by birdlime anc some of their heads had been knocked off, and since no one hac tended this place in over half a year, heather and wild oats had begur to seed amidst the cracks.

She dressed and carefully threaded the heather sprig into the brooch that held her arisaid in place, then gathered her cloak and set out for the castle, anxious to find Ailig.

Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.

XXV But gentle even in his wildest mood, Always, and most, he loved the bluest weather, And in some soft and sunny solitude Couched like a milder sunshine on the heather, He communed with the winds, and with the birds, As if they might have answered him in words.

On Wednesday 20 April 1994, eight weeks after the police first arrived at Cromwell Street with a warrant to search for Heather, Rosemary West was arrested and taken to Cheltenham police station.

And if you examine heather through a strong magnifying-glass, it is like milk-wort, Epilobium in Latin or a rhododendron, or like an elm tree, which is nothing more nor less than a huge nettle.

Across the deep vale the Exmoor mountains rise and reach on either hand, immense breadths of dark heather, deep coombes filled with black shadow, and rounded masses that look dry and heated.

It was a tea worth waiting for, in the true Exmoor tradition, with farmhouse scones, heather honey in the comb and clotted cream.

And the green did seem to be everywhere it could be: featherleaf down the hillside and in the town, ferns all over the near hillsides, and heather struggling toward the gray crowns of the mountains across the channel.

The gate opened to the southwest, and the road led from it into a field of brilliant crimson fireweed and pink wild heather awash in a ground of green.

But Kathy Warren must have been a very hardheaded woman, because Heather had definitely inherited that trait from someone.

George Hamilton, Christopher Reeve, Brooke Shields, jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Heather Locklear, Quincy Jones, and a host of other Hollywoodites flew in ready to join local celeb Billy Kidd and ski for a good cause.

The flowers of the tundra opened: white mountain avens, yellow poppies, white heather, crimson, yellow, red, white and purple saxifrage, lousewort, pink primulas, even the orange marigolds.

Here and there among the heather grew creeping mealberry vines, with bright red fruit-like beads, and huckleberry bushes that tempted our pleasure-seekers to alight again and again to gather and eat of their fruit.