London pride
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Here, too, we gathered sweet blue violets, yellow buttercups, Ladies' traces and London pride, with all the beautiful variety of simple meadow flowers, and entwined them into pretty wreaths, or fragrant boquets.
From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Hanna, Abigail Stanley
Since Nell Gwyn no such scented cognomen, redolent of cuckoo's boots, London pride, blood-red poppies, purple fox-gloves, lemon stocks, and vermillion zinnias, has blown its delicate odour across our scene....
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
In vain; nothing would grow but some spindly London pride and scarlet geraniums.
From A Pair of Clogs by Walton, Amy
There were banks of flowers, and sidewalks where the London pride grew, and water, and great trees with hollows in them where the water lodged.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah
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