scarlet pimpernel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
I confess I like 'Queen of the Meadows' better than Spiræa Ulmaria, and I think 'poor man's weather-glass' a far better description of the scarlet pimpernel than Anagallis arvensis.
From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela
Mozart passed roguishly by in strains of scarlet pimpernel, mignonette, syringa, and violets.
From Visionaries by Huneker, James
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