This corner the industrious little insects made the headquarters of their honey campaign, sallying out from thence to taste a sweet-pea or scarlet-runner and giving a passing kiss to a gaudy fuchsia, who wore a red coat and blue corporation sort of waistcoat, as they went homeward to their hive. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
That "somewhere else" turned out -- after more hot tramping, and several failures -- to be, of all things, a little open-air place in a back street that called itself a French restaurant, and consisted in two or three rickety tables under a scarlet-runner, between a patch of zinnias and petunias and a big elm bending over from the next yard. ❋ Unknown (1917)
"And how many pounds are we nearer the scarlet-runner state of existence, Mrs. Molly?" he asked me before I had finished tying the blouse, in the nicest voice in the world, fairly cracking with friendship and good humour and hateful things like that. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
Then there was another room with white muslin curtains at the windows, and scarlet-runner beans made haste to twine themselves to a line of strings for shade. ❋ Sarah Orne Jewett (1879)
I forget what I called the scarlet-runner thicket, but by some eastern name, and drawing nearer I found an opportunity for another shot, which missed. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
In fact, Dan'l recognised that stick as having been taken from the end of the scarlet-runner row. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
And, as we spoke, there went by a great, stout, roaring Romany woman, -- a scarlet-runner of Babylon run to seed, -- with a boy and a hand-cart to carry the seed in. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
It is wise and natural in a scarlet-runner to climb up something, for it could not grow up by itself; and for practical purposes it is well that in each household there should be a little Pope, whose dicta on all topics shall be unquestionable. ❋ Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862)
Judging from my experience, it would be useless to attempt the acclimature of the scarlet-runner bean in ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)
In the various kinds of peas and beans it is the pod or fruit and the seed that has been subjected to selection, and therefore greatly modified; and it is here very important to notice that while all these plants have undergone cultivation in a great variety of soils and climates, with different manures and under different systems, yet the flowers have remained but little altered, those of the broad bean, the scarlet-runner, and the garden-pea, being nearly the same in all the varieties. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
