buttercups

Crocus and buttercups from the German meadow in front of my house, the happiest part of spring.

baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

Crocus and buttercups from the German meadow in front of my house, the happiest part of spring.

baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

She tried to feel her sins and count them up; but the birds and the daisies and the buttercups were a constant interruption, and she went into the old meeting-house quite dissatisfied with herself.

The Girlhood of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward, b. 1850 1996

"The leaves are as pretty as flowers," said they; and they called the golden leaves "buttercups," and the red ones "roses," and were very happy as they went singing through the wood.

The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

"buttercups," and the red ones "roses," and were very happy as they went singing through the wood.

The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903

Theer's more o 'God in that gert shine o' buttercups 'pon the grass than in all them whey-faced chapel folks put together. "

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

Even the food in their stomachs grass, buttercups, beans, seeds, and young shoots of pine trees was not digested or decayed.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

Everywhere was a mosaic of thyme-scented freshness with every contour climbed: sedges or "sieves" as the farmers call them, reeds in clusters by the track, tiny yellow flowers, carpets of a minuscule white blossom, meadow buttercups, mat grasses and emerald turf.

Country diary: Wasdale, Lake District 2011

He stabbed his hand into his breast pocket to reassure himself that the little baby blue sheet of stationery with the embossed buttercups on the border was still there.

Lance Mannion: 2009