scarlet pimpernel
Britishnoun
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Her hands shielded from the gusts of February air by a well-worn pair of gardening gloves, Rachel carefully places tree spinach and scarlet pimpernel seeds into brown plastic pots.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2020
Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel.
From Time Magazine Archive
A scarlet pimpernel is not, as U. S. cinemaddicts may suppose, either a childhood disease or a disgraceful occupation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scarlet pimpernel, nicknamed the "poor man's weather glass," or wind cope, opens its flowers only to fine weather.
From Camping For Boys by Gibson, Henry William
She loved the beautiful for its own sake, kept her face to the sun when it shone, shivered and shut up like a scarlet pimpernel if bad weather was abroad.
From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden
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