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My, that's an awfully important term you found there blue-bell.
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The violet-grey spirit with the dark eyes and the crown of amber hair, who walks the dawn and the moonlight, and at blue-bell time?
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He saw her before she had been stolen from him, how she had laid the little blue-bell down for him, all rosy beneath the brown curling locks which struggled to be free; then, pale under the ill-treatment of the brother who had stolen her from him, pale for him; then trembling before his brother's threats, trembling for him; then laughing, weeping, full of anguish and full of happiness in his arms.
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The _campanula rotundifolia_, the hare-bell of poets, and the blue-bell of botanists, arrests the eye on every dry bank, rock, and wayside, with its beautiful cerulean bells.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 Various
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And the blue-bell and Mary baith blossom'd thegither;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Where the trees grew tall and close above an undergrowth of shepherd's-parsley and blue-bell had been a favourite resort of the child's.
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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You know, at the Whitsun feast, the little blue-bell that I laid there.
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The blue-bell and fox-glove were growing on every hand, and the heath throve in luxuriance, but, flowerless, seemed to miss the golden blossoms of the furze.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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After this they all chirruped together as she waved a blade of grass to keep time, then she rang a blue-bell and school was over.
The Cheerful Cricket and Others Jeannette Augustus Marks 1919
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Flung from fragile blue-bell cups, when vernal breezes blow,
Dew 1918
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