Definitionn. European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads
Last update: July 11, 2015
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The plants are herbs, sometimes annual as in pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) (fig. [Please select]
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--JULY 133 In the Fields again--Scarlet Pimpernel--Goat's Beard--Caddis Worms and Flies--Forget-me-not--Goldfinches--Cruelty of country lads to young birds--Grasshoppers--Crickets--Pike, voracity and size of. [Please select]
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The little pimpernel, however, is supposed to be the best barometer. [Please select]
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There is another thing about the pimpernel; you will not often see its blossoms expanded after three o'clock in the afternoon.' [Please select]
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Elusive as was the elusive Pimpernel, he flitted back of the lines to the plane-base. [Please select]
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The scarlet pimpernel, nicknamed the "poor man's weather glass," or wind cope, opens its flowers only to fine weather. [Please select]
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Sir Ralph Pimpernel, who is married to a French Huguenot lady and has connections at the French court, will lead them. [Please select]
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Here Sir Ralph Pimpernel found Marshal Biron, a relation of his wife, who at once took him to the king. [Please select]
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Certainly it is delicate, and may even be described as brilliant, in its limited way perfect, and to other greater songs like the small pimpernel to a poppy or a hollyhock. [Please select]
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It is the scarlet pimpernel, or "poor man's weather-glass;" for on rainy days, and even before the showers are coming, the little plant, conscious of their approach, closes up its flowers. [Please select]
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