But sometimes in the evenings after a glass of cowslip wine, her imagination took a bolder flight.
Clara laughed strangely, and rose, picking the cowslips from her hair.
He had found the double cowslips, and he knew now that I was neither a liar nor a thief.
Here, the city gallant paused to laugh with the country girl, her basket full of May-boughs and cowslips.
The windows of the cottage were filled with flowers, and cowslips and violets were plentifully scattered about the little garden.
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Cockerels, cowslips and violets are disappearing from many people's lives.
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I do not believe you can defeat panzer divisions by strewing cowslips in their path.
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He did create certain flowers for that purpose, like daffodils, and cowslips, but not bluebells.
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The sound of a cockerel is becoming as scarce as the sight of a beautiful violet orcowslip.
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You cannot dig up primroses or cowslips, but you can pick them without committing a crime.
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One does not see many cowslips today.
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I have looked up the words which he used, and he pointed out that you cannot dig up a primrose or acowslipwithout committing an offence.
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The idea of spherical objects bouncing down hills, knocking sheep out of the way, and crushing the orchids and the cowslips is too horrific to contemplate.
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I remember, as a child, picking cowslips.
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Spring colour is provided by daffodils, cowslips and magnolia with roses, dahlias and wild orchids flowering in the summer.
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One area is grazed by cattle and sheep, which is helping to bring back wildflowers such as cowslips, southern marsh orchids and goatsbeard.
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Other localities have neutral, deeper soil and cowslips, dog-violets and bird's foot trefoil are common.
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Children today still go out and pick bunches of cowslips in the surrounding countryside.
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At the southern end of the reserve are damp meadows with hemlock and willowherb, and a dry meadow, which contains cowslips in the spring.
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The northern side is dominated by bracken, bramble, privet, hawthorn, cowslips and bell heather.
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