Sign of spring

Usage examples of wildflower.

All around the long room, knots of cardmasters defended here and there in rings of steel and upset furniture, but many were mowed down by broadswords like wildflowers by a scythe.

Larks and linnets wheeled and turned with a rush and fluttering of wings and their sweet trillings pierced the silence, and there was the fragrant scent of harebells and wildflowers and heather on the lucent air.

Dew dripped from the overhanging branches, glistened on the white wildflowers gleaming in the hedgerows, ran in little rivulets down the grassy banks at the sides of the lane.

He could easily put her in a home filled with cut wildflower arrangements, fragile knickknacks that each had special meaning, wind chimes tinkling to welcome in a morning breeze.

He felt the crisp breeze on his skin, felt the rough texture of a hemp rope coiled over his shoulder and the pressure of boots, smelled the scent of the tiny yellow and white wildflowers and the faint musk of the marmots that live in homes on the mountain.

I look out of my window before going to bed and see the long falls of the infant river through the meadow, and the dark woods seeming to enclose the house from harm: I dream of the old inhabitant, his ancestors, and the numbers and numbers of springs when the wildflowers have flourished in those woods and the nightingales have sung there.

Slicing through trees and brush and grass, through the whole of the Slags, it flared in sharp relief against a backdrop of hills leading into mountains, of green fields brightened by wildflowers, of streams and waterfalls, and of dazzling sunshine.

Sometimes he picked thistles or wildflowers from the green and wore them in the lapel of his jacket.

Through the coarse meadow grasses wildflowers had forced their way: purple violets, bright yellow dandelions, delicate little .

After a moment of silent prayer, she left a spray of wildflowers at the base of the granite marker, then made her way to the Taylor plot.

Biters swarmed in clouds about Karigan and The Horse, stealing away any pleasure they might have found in the budding of wildflowers, and the trills of warblers recently arrived from the south.

It did not occur to her that at least one among them was interested in the wildflowers, birds, or mammals of the region.

A world where wildflowers blossomed in riotous colors, where the air was fresh and the water crystal clear.

Pillared in birch and carpeted with moss and wildflowers, it was a perfect setting for the wide silver pool in its center, crystal clear and mottled with leaf shadows.

He breathed deeply of greenery-spiced air sweetened with the fragrance of the wildflowers which nodded in a neighborly fashion as the boat passed.