Use cowslip in a sentence - Example Sentences for cowslip
Handsomest of all is the Virginia cowslip.
Very different from the bright yellow cowslip of Europe is our odd, misnamed blossom.
Not a true marigold, and even less a cowslip, it is by these names that this flower, which looks most like a buttercup, will continue to be called, in spite of the protests of scientific classifiers.
The principal other genera are the418 American Cowslip (Dodecatheon), Bear’s-ear Sanicle (Cortusa), Soldanella, the Water Violet (Hootonia), and Loosestrife (Lysimachia).
-arrived before 'the half' was many weeks old; and with it a cake in a perfect nest of oranges, and two bottles of cowslip wine.
Cowslip is not “cow's lip.
It is possible that before the 15th century both the primrose and the cowslip ( Primula veris ) were regarded as one and the same and called cowslips [Old English cuslippe ].
The hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip ( Primula veris x vulgaris , sometimes called Primula variabilis ) is known as the oxlip .
In some country areas of England paigle (or pagle , or pagyll ) is still the local name for the cowslip.
' This would be most appropriate, since around the time paigle came into use cowslip blooms were used to make a very popular country wine.
A cowslip is rather more likely since they grow in meadows or, of course, it could have been an oxlip.
Given at our palace of Cowslip-castle, the shortest night of the year.
The middle of this Month the Cowslip is in Flower, or as some call it the Peigle; and now is the Season to make a most pleasant Wine of the Flowers.
To make Peigle, or Cowslip Wine, From Mrs. _E.
Why, if the nights seem tedious--take a wife: Or rather truly, if your point be rest, Lettuce and cowslip wine: Probatum est.
It is a pity you can't come with us,' said all the children; and little Mary ran after Susan to the cottage door. 'I forgot to thank you,' said she, 'for the double cowslips; look how pretty they are, and smell how sweet the violets are in my bosom, and kiss me quick, for I shall be left behind.' Susan kissed the little breathless girl, and returned softly to the side of her mother's bed. 'How grateful that child is to me for a cowslip only! But, my dear Mr. Frederick, you are quite pale, quite exhausted; no wonder--what will you have? a glass of cowslip-wine?' 'Oh no, thank you, ma'am,' said Frederick. 'Oh yes; indeed you must not leave me without taking something; and Miss Marianne must have another macaroon.
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