heather

• Below lie Sillery Sands, and the caves of the beach; beyond, the opening heights of Exmoor, in long flat curves, featureless, spacious, and beautiful, purple and sombre under the wrack of rain-clouds, grey and arid in the fierce blaze of the midsummer sun, most lovely of all on crisp September mornings, when the heather is abloom in miles on miles of changing purples and the air has a keen, clean edge, as if it were blown off the top of the world. —  Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff ; Moorland
• For more than halfway up it was clad with heather, and when the heather was in bloom it looked like a purple robe falling from the shoulders of the mountain down to its feet. —  The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales
• The red heather is the largest and the most abundant. —  The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'
• From the roots of transplanted Mediterranean heather--and not from briar--are made what we call briarwood pipes. —  Riviera Towns
• You have seen those old forlorn places, where the site is overgrown with grass, and the heather has been allowed to spread all over the yard. —  Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm

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