London pride
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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London pride is common enough, but I like it and grow it.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry
And that's London pride, and that's ragged robin.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold
And then, in little square patches all round the garden, were planted London pride, blue bachelor's buttons, yellow marigolds, tall larkspur, many-coloured asters, hollyhocks and stocks.
From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Bryant, Sara Cone
A sound of harmonium and girls' hymn issuing out of the ruin, on which grow against the sky great tufts of fennel, of stuff like London pride and of budding lentisk.
From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon
But the mail is rattling along, to the music of the guard's horn and the quadrupedant sound of the horses, heedless alike of local verjuice and of London pride.
From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
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