295 examples of poppy in sentences

The poppy blooms and fades.

then this ambiguous doubt No man can better than myself decide; That compound powder was of poppy made and mandrakes, Of purpose to cast one into a sleep, To ease the deadly pain of him whose leg Should be saw'd off; That powder gave I to the schoolmaster.

A short poppy-colored skirt, with a tightly-laced bodice, completed her costume.

The old Judge's eyes brightened when he saw Charlotte in her short poppy-colored skirt, her arms bare to the elbow, running here and there in the garden paths gathering the flowers, and when he saw her approaching him with her huge bouquet, which she humbly presented to him with downcast eyes.

The nail that sticks up hammered down [Jap.Tr.]; Tall poppy syndrome; Stick your neck out and it may get cut off.

moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora; wet blanket; palliative.

moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora; wet blanket; palliative.

Oven-bird, Oxalis, yellow, Papaw, Paroquet, Partridge-berry, Pelican: brown, white, Persimmon, Phoebe, Pipewort, Poison Ivy, Poppy, Mexican, Quail, Rail: Carolina, clapper, king, Redbird (Cardinal Grosbeak), "Ricebird".

Wine o'er the ardent restless mind Entwines its poppy chain; A solace, then, the wretched find.

Here the poppy showed its scarlet in the midst of the stalks of wheat still green, and along the borders were purple patches of that sun-loving campanula, Venus's looking-glass.

The city grew up from three pointsthe Mission"I pulled a poppy from my bouquet and placed it on the table to mark the old adobe"the Presidio"I moved a salt cellar to the right of the flower"and the town of Yerba Buena," this I indicated by a pepper box below the other two.

He intercepted all communication between a poppy and the ambient air, by covering it with a bell; and between it and the earth, by covering the vessel in which it grew with a leaden plate.

Why is the oil of poppy-seed perfectly wholesome? Because it is in no degree narcotic; nor has it any of the properties of the poppy itself.

Why is the oil of poppy-seed perfectly wholesome? Because it is in no degree narcotic; nor has it any of the properties of the poppy itself.

Why is the juice of the poppy called opium?

The botanical name of the poppy, papaver, is said to be derived from its being commonly mixed with the pap, papa, given to children in order to ease pain, and procure sleep.

I had a cockney nature calendar planted in mine, that began with a bunch of snowdrops, ran through hot poppy days, and ended in a glow of chrysanthemums, but all the while I worked among these I felt the breath of civilization about me and the solid pavement under my feet.

She was in his arms, pressed close to his breast, the presence of her, intense, feminine, intoxicating him, bearing him as the fruit of the poppy to oblivion.

In the corner stood a sheaf of the tassels of gigantic meadow grass from Cheasing Eyebright, and on the desk there lay three empty poppy heads as big as hats.

Poppy Ott and the tittering totem.

Poppy Ott and the tittering totem.

Poppy Ott and the tittering totem.

Poppy Ott and the prancing pancake.

The Tennessee poppy; or, Which way is Westminster Abbey?

Thus from the pomegranate and the asparagus they gather food alone, wax from the olive tree, honey from the fig, but not of good quality: other plants like the bean, the bee balm, the gourd and the cabbage serve a double purpose and yield both wax and food: while the apple and the wild pear serve a similar double purpose but for food and honey and the poppy again for wax and honey.

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