buttercup

They will gladly accept the conclusion that the marvellous qualities and activities of living things and that inscrutable wonder, the mind of man, are outcomes of the orderly process of Nature no less than are the miracles which we call a buttercup, a rock crystal, a glacier, the noon-day sun!

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Lieutenant Peary found making gay the frosty fields of Greenland, in buttercup-yellow and orange and white; the great Orientals, gorgeous beyond expression; the immense single white California variety.

An Island Garden 1894

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Buttercup Bake Shop Saying F You to Magnolia With Free Cupcakes? | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

But the glitter of the buttercup, which is as nothing to the glitter of a gold dollar in the eyes of a practical farmer, fills him with wrath when this immigrant takes possession of his pastures.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Like the ox-eye daisy, the buttercup is a typical meadow flower, tall, so that it tops the grasses and catches the sun in its petals, thin-foliaged, for no real grass-growing flower has broad or remarkable leaves, and with

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

The outskirts of this level water-meadow were diversified by rounded and hollow pastures, where just now every flower that was not a buttercup was a daisy.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

The outskirts of this level water-meadow were diversified by rounded and hollow pastures, where just now every flower that was not a buttercup was a daisy.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

Also known as buttercup, it is sweet but not watery and its texture reminds me of chestnuts.

Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By RUTH PRETTY 2010

Great care should be taken, however, that it is a plant of the correct species, for in the etiquette of courtship all flowers have different meanings and many a promising affair has been ruined because a suitor sent his lady a buttercup, meaning "That's the last dance I'll ever take you to, you big cow," instead of a plant with a more tender significance.

Perfect Behavior 1922

The buttercup which is tall with a flower at the end of a high firm stalk and leaves with slender spike fingers, if it grows in an open meadow, becomes a stunted flower on a short stem, and its leaves form squat webs, in order to force its growth on a close-cropped lawn.

Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards 1897