The special food fad of muntjac, he says, is to eat the flowers of oxlips. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
The only interesting point is the frequency of the production of natural hybrids, i.e. oxlips, and the existence of one kind of oxlip which constitutes a third good and distinct species. ❋ James Marchant (N/A)
She had been giving them, it appeared, a lesson in practical botany; their hats were adorned with scarlet and yellow blossoms, and they carried bunches of oxlips and violets. ❋ William Worthington Fowler (N/A)
Lying on the bank, which enclosed the orchard, was a blue-eyed rosy-cheeked little girl; -- the ground ashes had been cut down; and her laughing face was pillowed on the violets and oxlips, that burst from between the roots. ❋ A Bushman (N/A)
The ground was starred with wood-anemones, oxlips, violets, cuckoo-flowers, and in damp places with green-golden saxifrage. ❋ Frederick Augustus Voigt (1924)
At the bottom of the wood-yard was a little stream, and on the far bank clusters of oxlips were in bloom. ❋ Frederick Augustus Voigt (1924)
William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued) Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and ❋ Unknown (1919)
The weather was bright, the enemy entirely inactive, and the wood, with its oxlips and other spring flowers, its budding branches unscarred by shell fire, was a picture of charm rare in modern warfare. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Meanwhile Oberon found Titania asleep on a bank where grew wild thyme, oxlips, and violets, and woodbine, musk-roses and eglantine. ❋ William Patten (1902)
Young Lionel gathered a nosegay as he went, harebells and violets, oxlips and anemones; thinking all the while of the tales his mother oft had told him about his father's skill in flowers. ❋ Unknown (1888)
But already everywhere bloomed the abundant marigolds, the hepaticae, the violets, the oxlips, the gentians, the primroses, and the forget-me-nots. ❋ Unknown (1884)
"I am in no trouble, dear Reine," said Bébée, scattering the potato-peels to the clacking poultry, and she smiled into the faces of the golden oxlips that nodded to her back again in sunshiny sympathy. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
But Bébée was not hearing; she was calling the chickens, and telling the oxlips how pretty they looked in the borders; and in her heart she was counting the minutes till the old Dutch cuckoo-clock at Mère Krebs's -- the only clock in the lane -- should crow out the hour at which she went down to the city. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
The scene is laid in May, and the flowers named are all in accordance -- daffodils, daisies, marigolds, oxlips, primrose, roses, and thyme. ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)
A bright row of polyanthus and oxlips seemed to be the haunt of the male bees. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
We spent one day in visiting old houses of the Grisons aristocracy at Mayenfeld and Zizers, rejoicing in the early sunshine, which had spread the fields with spring flowers -- primroses and oxlips, violets, anemones, and bright blue squills. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
