41 examples of wallflower in sentences

Some legends are of a more romantic kind, as that which explains the origin of the wallflower, known in Palestine as the "blood-drops of Christ."

Neatly dressed and carrying a small offering of wallflowers, he set out that afternoon to call on his old master, giving, as he walked, the last touches to a little speech of welcome which he had prepared during dinner.

Mr. Wilks stood dazed and speechless before him, holding the wallflowers in one hand and his cap in the other.

" Benjie is now principal shop-man in a Wallflower Hair-Powder and Genuine Macassar Oil Warehouse, kept by three Frenchmen, called Moosies Peroukey, in the West End of London.

If it can be worn five times during the winter, the girl is either a careful dancer or else a wallflower.

Beyond was a high, red brick-wall rich with ivy and wallflower and pennywort, and set along the top with broken glass.

The Emperor Trajan has been called the Charlemagne of the Balkan peninsula; all remains are attributed to him (he was nicknamed the Wallflower by Constantine the Great), and his reign marked the zenith of Roman power in this part of the world.

And the golden note is prolonged through the pleasure grounds by the pale yellow of the laburnums, by the great yellow of the berberis, by the cadmium yellow of the gorse, by the golden wallflowers growing amid rhododendrons and laurels.

The wallflower.

THE WALLFLOWER, a photoplay in six reels by Goldwyn Pictures Corp. © 29Jun22, L18020.

Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH); 9May55; R149181. ADAMS, EUSTACE L. Wallflowers.

BAILEY, TEMPLE. Wallflowers.

How not to be a wallflower.

How not to be a wallflower.

The little sinner. SEE Ayres, Ruby M. Wallflower. SEE Ayres, Ruby M. GENERAL DIGEST.

The wallflower.

THE WALLFLOWER, a photoplay in six reels by Goldwyn Pictures Corp. © 29Jun22, L18020.

How not to be a wallflower.

How not to be a wallflower.

The little sinner. SEE Ayres, Ruby M. Wallflower. SEE Ayres, Ruby M. GENERAL DIGEST.

See "Wallflower.

Before the inn-window is a garden, from which in the early morning issues a most wonderful odor of stocks and wallflowers; next comes a road with trees of admirable green; numbers of little children are playing in this road (the place is so clean that they may roll on it all day without soiling their pinafores), and on the other side of the trees are little old-fashioned, dumpy, whitewashed, red-tiled houses.

The old house seemed to have grown old and mellow like a rock or crag; to have sprung up out of the ground; and nature, working patiently with rain and sun and wind, drooping the stonecrop from the parapet, fringing the parapets with snapdragons and wallflowers, touching the old roofs with orange and grey lichens, had done the rest.

But the lupin, the moss-pink, and the yellow wallflower, with all the varieties of the helianthus, the aster, and the solidago, spread their gay charms around.

Then, again, the wallflower, which is the emblem of fidelity in misfortune, if presented with the stalk upward, would intimate that the person to whom it was turned was unfaithful in the time of trouble.

41 examples of  wallflower  in sentences