wheat-ear

A wheat-ear, brought God knows whence, was filling out to ripening.

Taras Bulba 2003

A wheat-ear, brought God knows whence, was filling out to ripening.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

They have also a close relationship to such developments as we see in the wheat-ear carnation, in certain species of the genus _Mæsa_ and others, wherein the calyx is repeated over and again, to the partial or complete suppression of the other parts of the flower.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Guido nearly stepped on a humble-bee -- buzz-zz! the bee was so alarmed he actually crept up Guido's knickers to the knee, and even then knocked himself against a wheat-ear when he started to fly.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

The top of Indian Corn supplies the place of hay or of straw for fodder: it is the flower of the plant, and bears the farina like the wheat-ear, but the grains are deposited in the ears which come out of the stalk lower down.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 Various

Chronicle, 'October 6th, 1860, p. 894, is mentioned an instance where the blossoms of the pea were entirely absent, and their place supplied by accumulations of small, ovate, green scales, thus presenting an appearance similar to that brought about by the inordinate multiplication of the sepals in the "wheat-ear carnation," and in the

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

In short, she is the ortolan, or rather wheat-ear, of the place, for she is entirely a lump of fat; and the form of the universe itself is scarce more beautiful, for her figure is almost circular.

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Melville, Lewis 1921

A wheat-ear, brought God knows whence, was filling out to ripening.

Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 1904

In short, she is the _ortolan_, or rather _wheat-ear_, of the place, for she is entirely a lump of fat; and the form of the universe itself is scarce more beautiful, for her figure is almost circular.

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Lewis Melville 1903

Some also know about the Robin who brought the wheat-ear in his bill to the poor brothers in

The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899