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  1. heather-bell love

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as heathbell.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a species of heather, native to western and central Europe; erica cinerea; bell heather

Examples

  • ““The heather-bell costs nothing!” he thought, looking contemptuously at the masses of rare and beautiful flowers that surrounded him; “and the buttercups and daisies are as bright as the best of you!””

    Armadale

  • “I think a wholly normal man must have looked upon her as a child looks at a heather-bell -- gladly and gratefully, and with a pleased amazement.”

    Children of the Desert

  • “Then, by a magical kind of movement, each little fairy sets her own heather-bell ringing, and you can't by any possibility imagine what the music is like.”

    Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School

  • “The purple heather-bell is in bloom, the tiny blue milkwort and the yellow rock-rose help to make a summer carpet which is rendered still gayer by many a pale peach - coloured orchis and by an occasional spray of wild roses, deeper in the rose than the same flower is in the low countries, or by a tall white foxglove.”

    Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2

  • “The heather-bell costs nothing!" he thought, looking contemptuously at the masses of rare and beautiful flowers that surrounded him; "and the buttercups and daisies are as bright as the best of you!”

    Armadale

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