117 examples of snowdrops in sentences

" The angel's mission ended, he departed, but where he had stood a ring of snowdrops formed a lovely posy.

She lay asleep, and her face shone white As under a snowy veil, And the waxen hands clasped on her breast Were full of snowdrops pale; But a holy calm touched the baby lips, The brow, and the sleeping eyes, The look of an angel pitying us From the peace of Paradise.

In the garden he gathered together a nosegay of snowdrops, those being all the flowers he could find, and then going into the village of Stokoe bought a Dutch rabbit (that is a black and white one) from a man there who kept them.

Look, the first snowdrops.

She made no pretence now of enjoying the first snowdrops or the view from the terrace.

How Snowdrops cold, and blue-eyed Harebels blend

It is probable either of these methods may succeed with these and other bulbous-rooted plants, as snowdrops, and might render their cultivation profitable in this climate.

The great dead lie imprisoned in escutcheoned vaults, but for the little dead Nature spreads out soft small graves, all snowdrops and dewdrops, where day-long they can feel the earth rocking them as in a cradle, and at night hear the hushed singing of the stars.

This is altogether in advance of our season, so far as the flowers give evidence,though we have plucked snowdrops in February.

I will send you a photograph of the monument which the ladies of papa's church and congregation have erected to dear mamma, in our beautiful cemetery, where the snowdrops will be already peeping, and where roses bloom for ten months out of the twelve.

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 went to it one morning in May, all white and drooping, in her modest gown and that poor little bridal bonnet with its wreath of snowdrops, symbolic of all the timidities, the reluctances, the cold austerities of spring roused in the lap of winter, and yet she found in it the secret fire of youth.

Snowdrops, crocuses, hyacinths and tulips were blooming out of doors and in-doors; the grass looked green and velvety, and the fruit trees were, as John expressed it, "all a-blow."

Alfred Putz (A); 20Dec60; R268082. Snowdrops.

The violets and snowdrops and crocuses are rooted up, all the sweet and tender old flowers ruthlessly eradicated, to make way for a blazing parterre after the manner of the suburban villagay in the summer, in the spring a wilderness of clay, in the autumn a howling desert of musty evergreens..

Bulbocodium Trigynum (Colchicum Caucasium).A miniature hardy bulbous plant, which produces in February and March erect flowers about the size of snowdrops.

Height, 1 ft. to 2 ft. Galanthus.See "Snowdrops.

When mixed with Crocuses and Snowdrops they produce a very charming effect.

S. Siberica especially looks well when grown in pots with Snowdrops.

" Snowdrops (Galanthus).These are most effective in clumps.

We find a glory in the flowers When snowdrops peep and hawthorn blooms; We see fresh light in spring-time hours, And bless the radiance that illumes.

It was afterwards included among the "Poems of the Fancy," and in a MS. copy it was named "The Coronet of Snowdrops."Ed.

The garden was adjoined by a sort of wilderness, with big trees and ground-ivy, and open spaces in which aconites and snowdrops were beginning to show themselves.

615 Planting my snowdrops among winter snows:

[Footnote p: Snowdrops still grow abundantly in many an orchard and meadow by the road which skirts the western side of Esthwaite Lake.

117 examples of  snowdrops  in sentences