The process by which plants, whether tiny pimpernels or massive wellingtonias, acquire the energy to build themselves is photosynthesis. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)
Moreover, as Gärtner repeatedly crossed some forms, such as the common red and blue pimpernels (Anagallis arvensis and cærulea), which the best botanists rank as varieties, and found them absolutely sterile, we may doubt whether many species are really so sterile, when intercrossed, as he believed. ❋ Unknown (1909)
For their part the youngsters would have been glad enough to escape into the green country among the broom and cypress, the red snapdragon and golden asters and blue pimpernels, but these were wild and dangerous times, and at any moment a troop of ❋ William Canton (1909)
She wore an innocent gown powdered with pimpernels, and a little bonnet that she thought holiness itself, consisting as it did of a very small bow and a very large spike. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
Scarlatti -- stood in one angle, a harp, tied with most delicate ribands of ivory satin powdered with pimpernels, in another. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
Those women seemed to her so dazzling, so wondrously, so superhumanly beautiful; they seemed like some of those new dahlia flowers, rose and purple and gold, that outblazed the sun on the south border of her little garden, and blanched all the soft color out of the homely roses, and pimpernels, and sweet-williams, and double-stocks, that had bloomed there ever since the days of Waterloo. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
The two pimpernels (Anagallis arvensis and A. coerulea), classed by most botanists as varieties of one species, have been found, after repeated trials, to be perfectly sterile when crossed. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
The infertile varieties of Verbascum were white and yellow flowered respectively; the infertile varieties of maize were red and yellow seeded; while the infertile pimpernels were the red and the blue flowered varieties. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
Though the haze looked like a mist it was perfectly dry; the wheat was as dry as noon; not a speck of dew, and pimpernels wide open for a burning day. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
The pimpernels above which the hook passed are wide open: the larger white convolvulus trumpets droop languidly on the low hedge: the distant hills are dim with the vapour of heat; the very clouds which stay motionless in the sky reflect a yet more brilliant light from their white edges. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
Down the banks of the pools she saw, all under water, primroses and violets and pimpernels. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
There was besides, in the very heart of it, one plant of the finest pimpernels I have ever seen, and this was my introduction to the flower. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Here then we regathered red-tipped daisies, large pimpernels, and one tiny primrose. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
For, instead of rock or shingle or sand, it flowed over grass in which grew primroses and daisies, crocuses and narcissi, pimpernels and anemones, a starry multitude, large and bright through the brilliant water. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Down in the valley below, the daisies shone in all the meadows, varied with the buttercup and the celandine; while in damp places grew large pimpernels, and along the sides of the river, the meadow-sweet stood amongst the reeds at the very edge of the water, breathing out the odours of dreamful sleep. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
'Shall I answer you according to what Philip calls my note of time, and tell you the pimpernels are closed, and the tigridias dropping their leaves? ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Moreover, as Gartner during several years repeatedly crossed the primrose and cowslip, which we have such good reason to believe to be varieties, and only once or twice succeeded in getting fertile seed; as he found the common red and blue pimpernels ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
Blogger-pimpernels like Guido Fawkes will see to that. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Moreover, as Gartner during several years repeatedly crossed the primrose and cowslip, which we have such good reason to believe to be varieties, and only once or twice succeeded in getting fertile seed; as he found the common red and blue pimpernels (Anagallis arvensis and coerulea), which the best botanists rank as varieties, absolutely sterile together; and as he came to the same conclusion in several other analogous cases; it seems to me that we may well be permitted to doubt whether many other species are really so sterile, when intercrossed, as Gartner believes. ❋ Charles Darwin (1859)
Moreover, as Gärtner during several years repeatedly crossed the primrose and cowslip, which we have such good reason to believe to be varieties, and only once or twice succeeded in getting fertile seed; as he found the common red and blue pimpernels (Anagallis arvensis and coerulea), which the best botanists rank as varieties, absolutely sterile together; and as he came to the same conclusion in several other analogous cases; it seems to me that we may well be permitted to doubt whether many other species are really so sterile, when intercrossed, as Gärtner believes. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Devil:I cant wait to take [Kage] back to hell
I'm gonna fill him with my hot demon gel
I'll make him [squeal] like my [scarlet pimpernel] ❋ Connor Tremallo (2008)
*[Knock] at door*
Rob: fuckin hell look [taylor's] here not seen him for months
Steve: haha [fucking hell] yeah scarlet pimpernel ❋ Josh K3lly (2008)
They seek him here, they seek him there,
Those [Frenchies] seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? Or is he in hell?
That damned [elusive] [Pimpernel]! ❋ Slothics (2005)
"[Squeeze] these [fine] [pimpernel]!" ❋ BIGGBLASTER (2022)
