mignonnette

Example Sentences

• "The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there."
• "Mr. Blueapron — who keeps his vinery so moist that his vines put forth roots, in mid air, the whole length of their new-wood branches — who manures his vine-borders with quarters of dead horse, and will not allow even a mignonnette plant to exhaust their richness — would look aghast if he were told to cultivate such compost as that."
• "The fragrance of mignonnettes, and a hundred flowers that recall Old England, fill the air."
• "These are anemones, such as I put on your shelf yesterday morning, but these little starry mignonnettes did not grow wild, neither did those wax-balls in the middle."
• "The Victoria Regia, the fuchsias, the mignonnettes, the orchids, were almost life-like in their fidelity."
• "A little forest of mignonnettes sets an example of soberness and fragrance, while that honest gilliflower looks like an old-fashioned English matron."