What is "bellflower"

Usage examples of "bellflower".

It was a yellow Bellflower without a blemish, and very large and smooth.

Since October it had been in the dark, cool storage-room, and Horace, like some old monkish connoisseur of wines who knows just when to bring up the bottles of a certain vintage, had chosen the exact moment in all the year when the vintage of the Bellflower was at its best.

I forgot to say that when I would have slurred the excellence of the Baldwin in comparison with the Bellflower, Horace began at once to interpose objections, and defended the excellence and perfection of that variety.

When I emerged from the bower, I saw Bellflower sitting on a stone across the glade and called to her.

Behind them were attendants Bellflower, Cowslip, Mustardseed, and the entire host of the fay in solemn procession.

Chauvelin was waiting a few meters away, seated comfortably in the shade of a bellflower tree, a luncheon tray beside him and a data manager resting in his lap.

Chauvelin nodded, acknowledging the point, and by coincidence a breath of wind shook the bellflower tree beside him, bathing them both in its musky perfume.

The bellflower trees bent until their branches dragged along the ground, stirring the human-faced pebbles into new patterns, their flowers blown away in gusts with the wind.

I figured it was time to check back with Mary Bellflower to see what else she might have in the way of a contact.

I gave Mary Bellflower a quick call next door and told her I was still working on it.

Therefore, unable to choose a gift with personal significance, he had opted for something he knew to be universally admired: a bellflower from Artemis Three, or as close as he could come to reproducing one.

A product of the holodeck, the artificial bellflower would seem as real and solid and beautiful as a naturally grown plant with one exception-it would last forever.

In a tiny clearing surrounded by the oldest trees lay a carpet of wildflowers of every hue, many unknown in the north: orchid, iris, bellflower, campion, foxglove, betony, pimpernel, primrose, violet, and cranesbill.

The bellflower on the rock or the black stone itself, or whatever it might be, exuded a penetrating, strange, disturbing scent, the uncanny symbol of the god shone with a spectral radiance in the dark hall, and on the roof the strange bird sat and from time to time beat its enormous wings so that there was a rustling in the trees like a coming storm.

In the mountains he found the place where he had once picked the blue bellflower, and he found the steep rocky mountain path through the woods where he had led his horse.