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Straightway the primrose was torn from its root and held tightly in a hand which was far too hot to be pleasant Down the road the children went, and the primrose looked as well as she could at the hedges and the trees So this is the world," she said to herself.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914
And the primrose was placed in water, and at once began to revive Then she looked about her and saw what a nice room it was, and was happy The next morning in came the bee with a great fluster and bumped all over the room Hullo," he said to the little primrose, "you here She told him all her adventures Well, what I said is right, isn't it?"— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914
As you entered this tent from the town side, there were on either side three tiers of Burmese ladies sitting one above the other, their faces becomingly powdered with yellowish powder, and their eyebrows strongly pencilled, and they each had a yellow orchid in their black hair, and their dresses were of silks of infinite variety of tint--primrose, rose, and delicate white--"soft as puff, and puff, of grated orris root" and they glittered with diamonds and emeralds, and each held a silver bowl marvellously embossed, filled with petals of flowers and gold leaf.— From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
There is one of these plants called the evening primrose--not that it is like a primrose except in colour--at the bottom of the garden walk Do let us go and see if there is a moth on it, grandmamma Grandmamma smiled and said, "Jack might go and look, and then he could tell his sisters what he saw Jack scampered away, and after a minute or two he was back with the report that he had counted seven winged flies and moths all busy feeding upon the honey of the different blossoms of the plant Insects can smell things at a far greater distance than we can," said grandmamma.— Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.

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