pansies

I call my pansies little children with happy faces.

Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

As a married woman could she, with virtue, continue to embroider slippers in pansies for her rector?

The Miller of Old Church 1911

One of the things I’ve noticed about pansies is that they have a very delicate flavour that can be easily lost.

Tigers & Strawberries » Flower Power 2005

Sold in the big box stores in early fall with the pansies is the annual dianthus.

Enigmatic Prose « Fairegarden 2008

I have even bought it there after Christmas when it and the pansies were the only plants for sale, cheap, and it survived.

Enigmatic Prose « Fairegarden 2008

I thought to-night, when I looked at my lady, "Now, if only the pansies was there no one could tell the difference."

The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922

_ -- He knows a good many flowers, their names and colors; calls pansies "the dark flowers."

The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869

The pansies were the only annuals you could buy at Home Depot Saturday so it finally clicked - pansies are a lot hardier than petunias and it must be OK to plant them right now.

A CHELSEA MORNING 2009

You mean those beady eyes, glaring with venom at the "pansies," "sissies," and "ghetto trash" he feels himself surrounded by?

Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa: A-Feudin' and A-Fussin' 2009

A John Updike novel, say, about love among the WASPS that mentions "pansies" and the hired help without granting those characters any autonomy has clearly made some choices, and clearly represents an understanding of the world and what's important -- though it's "just a love story."

"Crap, here comes Teacher!" Roger Sutton 2007