heliotropes

We were watching, she and me — that is, if heliotropes can see.

French Word-A-Day: 2010

We were watching, she and me — that is, if heliotropes can see.

mansuetude - French Word-A-Day 2010

We were watching, she and me—that is, if heliotropes can see.

mansuetude - French Word-A-Day 2010

We were watching, she and me—that is, if heliotropes can see.

French Word-A-Day: 2010

But I was tired and couldn't be sure I actually recalled stampeding giraffes, falling heliotropes, bloodstone storms, an old child with no eyes, wrapped in waves; I couldn't; and you had dropped like a minnow of a brittle star into my flat trap of a lap, my darling sour ancient fish.

Minnows 2010

But, since then, I've realized that all heliotropes do that on my skin.

Strange Huffing Effects: L'Heure Bleu ScentScelf 2008

The wafted scent of the heliotropes, which had never been planted in the garden since

Robert Louis Stevenson 2004

I recognised some euphorbias, with the caustic sugar coming from them; heliotropes, quite incapable of justifying their name, sadly drooped their clusters of flowers, both their colour and perfume half gone.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

Well, Decius, it says here those are pansies and heliotropes and of course the famous red-and-white Tudor roses.

In the Garden of Iden 1997

Every one of the thousands of faces in the Forum turned to him as heliotropes to the sun; working himself into a passion through the force of his oratory, he began to believe every single word he shouted, he began to believe every single face his eyes encountered in the crowd, he began to believe in a new way to govern Rome.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990