Cowslips

It was all very detached from placing dew drops in cowslips, but it worked eventually. ❋ Joshenglish (2008)

You, she says, think it a great privilege to be born in the eighteenth century, because one called cowslips pagles and rode in a curricle instead of driving in ❋ Unknown (2004)

All that hiding in cowslips, Shakespeare took it up because it was fashionable but it didn't invite his imagination at all. ❋ Unknown (2001)

For the price of a Kate Spade purse, which I think we've established is $3.00 at Goodwill, you can buy one hundred seeds of primula veris, otherwise knows as cowslips, from Select Seeds. ❋ Theodora Goss (2008)

- An orchard with a collection of ornamental crab apples under-planted with wildflowers and bulbs such as cowslips, narcissus and snakes head fritillaries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An enchanting marmot by Jacopo Ligozzi competes with Albrecht D ü rer's cowslips and the charming red squirrel of a D ü rer contemporary, Hans Hofmann. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2010)

Christopher OsborneWest Bridgford, Nottinghamshire• "A sudden ignition of cowslips … Swashbuckling clouds and a rain of mad birds…" Country diary, 11 May. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Aspnum gave birth to Charrsid worms laughed themselves into consorts garage doors snagged their own eyelids shoe boxes climbed all the poles hellgrammites danced in the cupboard tug boats shrugged their conceits cowslips died of anemia ❋ Matt Dennison (2012)

The child walks to school through cowslips and buttercups and daisies but is surrounded by fear. ❋ Tom Shippey (2012)

On May Day around a scrubby patch in Lea quarry, a sudden ignition of cowslips, more than I'd seen in one place anywhere, revealed this space as it was, a relic of the ancient Westwood common, the only bit of original limestone grassland common not to be quarried, dumped on with spoil or farmed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As if to confirm this, a green hairstreak butterfly appeared and its green-gold brilliance together with the cowslips seemed to fill the column of air above that place with a burst of light. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A different Sunday Salon post today, books feature eventually and that was the only quote I could find on cowslips so it will have to do. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sometimes, looking out across all that open space, a vista filled with cowslips, daisies, and gillyflowers, I found it difficult to remember that I was only a few miles from the center of London. ❋ Kate Emerson (2010)

Seek some cowslips, pound them, mix with milk and administer to the patient as his only drink for nine days, being first strained through a fine cloth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I am going to cowslip his [sister] [in the barn] [tonight]. ❋ YolandaVega2 (2011)