mulleins

Even the smallest and youngest of the mulleins was a

Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

It was a country of wild flowers; the last of the columbines were clinging to the hillsides; down in the small, fenced meadows belonging to the farm were meadow rue just coming in flower, and red and white clover; the golden buttercups were thicker than the grass, while many mulleins were standing straight and slender among the pine stumps, with their first blossoms atop.

The White Rose Road 1995

June roses were laid against her dark hair and in her fair hands, when she was carried to the lonely graveyard of Greenfield, where mulleins and asters, golden-rod, blackberry-vines, and stunted yellow-pines adorned the last sleep of the weary wife and mother; for she left behind her a week-old baby, -- a girl, -- wailing prophetically in the square bedroom where its mother died.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

There is but little incident in a New-England village of the Deerfield style and size, -- full of commonplace people, who live commonplace lives, in the same white and brown and red houses they were born in, and die respectably in their beds, and are quietly buried among the mulleins and dewberry-vines in the hill-side graveyard.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

Sometimes we crashed through bracken; anon where the blackberries grew rankest we found a lonely little cemetery, the wooden rails all awry, and the pitiful stumpy headstones nodding drunkenly at the soft green mulleins.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Candace sat on a fragment of granite boulder which lay there, her black face relieved against a clump of yellow mulleins, then in majestic altitude.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

In summer, the Pedlar's-basket – a saxifrage – shows her gay wares and ribands of red stalk; the mulleins – the hig-tapers of the Saxons – burn, pale yellow, on each side of the path, but when the moon goes behind a cloud, they suddenly extinguish their torches, leaving us to play catch-as-catch-can with the teazels in the dark.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

Except for the child and the cat, no living being moved, as far as the eye could see; only the burdocks and mulleins swayed almost imperceptibly with breezes so delicate that the leaf tips of the trees could not feel them.

While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

Arabella stood thoughtfully there on that ridge of land, where the brown earth was studded with daisies and mulleins, the common children of the soil.

Arabella 1907

This summer still it would flame with blue anchusas and big red poppies, the mulleins would sway their soft, downy erections in the air: he loved mulleins: and the honeysuckle would stream out scent like memory, when the owl was whooing.

England, My England 1907