Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name for the species of Campanula, from the shape of the flower, which resembles a bell. See cut under
Campanula . - noun In some parts of England, the daffodil, Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus.
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Examples
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There was a bell-flower, red and velvety, like blood that is drying: and clusters of white roses: and tufts of bougainvillea, papery magenta colour.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The food of the cassowary is either grass, or a yellow bell-flower growing in the swamps.
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But for him it is a fresh bell-flower, in which he fumbles with delights like a bee.
The Trespasser 2003
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From time to time she stole a glance at her bell-flower, tried to make it ring with shaking, but failed to bring, by any means, one sound from the delicate little bell.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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For scarcely had the little bell rung, when a flash, like a sparkling snake, darted here and there upon the grass, and out of the quivering light there arose a small and exceedingly beautiful creature, whom Maud immediately recognised for the lord of the bell-flower.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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On her neck the small face buoyant, like a bell-flower on its bed,
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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There were at least three kinds of heath (I have got them in my handkerchief here), and gorse, and broom, and bell-flower, and many others of all colors, that I will beg you presently to tell me the names of.
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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The green moss grows to the very edge of its white stones, and ferns and hart's-tongues and lilies-of-the-valley clothe the sides of the hill; there are celandines and primroses and wild strawberry in flower, and the lovely white cup of the ivy-leafed bell-flower.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery
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The crowded heads of "bells" are of pale purple colour, in the style of the bell-flower; they are an inch in length, the corolla being somewhat deeply divided; eight to twelve form the terminal cluster, and they have
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The little bell-flower only assured Matilda that she did not dream, and that something unusual had really taken place.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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