Venus's looking glass

noun

1. a purple-flowered campanulaceous plant, Legousia hybrida, of Europe, W Asia, and N Africa

Example Sentences

How often through these nights Nelly Sarratt lay awake, in her new white room in Mountain Ash Farm!—the broad low window beside her open to the night, to that 'Venus's Looking Glass' of Loughrigg Tarn below her, and to the great heights beyond, now dissolving under the moon-magic, now rosy with dawn, and now wreathed in the floating cloud which crept in light and silver along the purple of the crags.

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