poppies

• “A handful of poppies from a field in Banyuls dels Aspres, in southern France (pres de Perpignan).”

  baba cool - French Word-A-Day

• “The speed with which farmers are turning to poppies is confirmed by the Iraqi news agency al-Malaf Press, which says that opium is now being produced around the towns of Khalis, Sa'adiya, Dain'ya and south of Baladruz, pointing out that these are all areas where al-Qa'ida is strong ....”

  Opium farms spread across Iraq

• “We bought numerous garlands of roses and poppies from the Indian children, both here and at Santa Anita, a little village where we landed, and as we returned towards evening we were amused by the singing and dancing of the Indians.”

  Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country

• “The first poppies came, orange-yellow and golden in the standing grain, and we went about gleefully, as though drunken with their wine, and told each other that the poppies were there.”

  The Golden Poppy

• “But the poppies are here to-day," she said, glaring carnivorously upon their glow and splendor.”

  The Golden Poppy

• “The orange of the poppies is a difficult one to include in a pleasing color scheme, for most other flowers that bloom at the same time here are pinks and reds.”

  May Bloom Day 2008 « Fairegarden

• “They made an equally grievous error in Afghanistan by assuming that it would be easy to replace the cultivation of opium poppies, which is a 3 billion dollar a year business (and last year accounted for one-third of Afghanistan’s GDP).”

  Printing: Bush Prepares to Cut and Run in Afghanistan

• “They made an equally grievous error in Afghanistan by assuming that it would be easy to replace the cultivation of opium poppies, which is a 3 billion dollar a year business (and last year accounted for one-third of Afghanistan's GDP).”

  Bush Prepares to Cut and Run in Afghanistan

• “Some of the poppies are a deep orange-color, while others are a pale yellow.”

  Stories of California

• “The poppies were a larger sort than those in the wheatfields, and of a very glorious crimson.”

  The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad

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