bugloss

• A clammy fear crept right down to his marrow, and the shiny new life he'd imagined for himself became a taunt, a tease, a glimpse held out of what he would never have. —  Critical Condition
• Sometime before full light, her eyelids closed from exhaustion. —  Incubus
• Thus there is viper's-bugloss, and snake-weed. —  The Folk-lore of Plants
• French and Swiss girls to adorn the tombs of their friends, and which they call _immortelle_; the Americans call it life-everlasting; also a tall purple-spiked valerian, that I observed growing in the fields among the corn, as plentiful as the bugloss is in our light sandy fields in —  The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
• There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil; —  Crabbe

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