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How to use columbine in a sentence

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Handsome at all seasons, in early spring bishop's hat is embellished by sprays of tiny flowers that resemble miniature columbine.
My favorite imitator, the Hinckley columbine, is like a butter-yellow, otherworldly bird.
Please take a brief walk back in time with me, as I share with you a bit of history about the exquisite, fairylike Rocky Mountain columbine.
The seeds of this columbine are sought after by small birds, such as song sparrows, juncos, and many others.
Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds.
Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
Plants like hosta, fern, sweet woodruff and columbine feel more at easy in the shadow.
However, in a high-elevation species of columbine, enhanced UV-B radiation appeared to destroy alkaloids.
She also uses some uncommon remedies such as geranium for colds and columbine for scrofula.
Other wildflowers are common Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, two kinds of golden bellworts, hepatica, wild columbine, monkshood, bloodroot, toothwort, and wild ginger.
Gun massacres like Newtown and columbine can destroy communities, families, and schools.
But school-based arrests in Pennsylvania alone went up by 300 percent since columbine.
In a kind of manifesto, the Virginia Tech killer had written about the two columbine killers.
For instance, hummingbirds are attracted to coral bells and columbine in spring, scarlet monkey flower and salvia in summer, and California fuchsia in late summer and fall.
The myriad wildflowers of the forests and high meadows include columbine, bunchberry, larkspur, gentian, and Indian paintbrush.
The columbine coloured almandine is the heaviest and most widely found of all garnets.
Several species of columbine and a number of hybrids are cultivated for their attractive flowers.
The red columbine on gold can be used by all citizens of the City of Scarborough.
The blue columbine on gold identifies city employees and agencies.
The gold and blue columbine identifies City dignitaries and functionaries.
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Then comes April bearing in its arms the beautiful columbine, the tiny bluets and wild geranium.
This particular spot was evidently a sort of natural forcing ground where the columbine was made to bloom with the bloodroot.
Climene had been silent and thoughtful, pondering what columbine had called this romance of hers.
There, still at his brooding, the returning columbine discovered him a half-hour later.
Here the columbine, the paintbrush, the monument-plant, and scores of other bright blossoms cheer the wild frontier.
Scaramouch persisted for some time, and was, like the harlequin and columbine, a pantomimist.
Fennel, for instance, emblemised flattery, and columbine ingratitude.
The columbine looked charming in an outstanding skirt that strangely resembled the large lamp-shade in the drawing-room.
Hold on a minute, I'm going to shift my saddle to columbine.
Various forms of columbine and meadow rue should also be remembered.
Its woods and fields support Christmas and maidenhair ferns, Solomon's seal, wild columbine, butterfly weed, penstemon and a long list of other native plants.
And in the harlequinade she's Columbine, but that only means a dove, and a dove is the symbol of the soul.
Columbine soliloquizes for a moment about her husband Punchinello, whom she does not expect home until morning.
Finally Columbine sprang to her feet, took his arm, and with a half-regretful glance at the merry dancers left the room with him.
The old-fashioned Columbine is in full bloom, as is also the aquilegia glandulosa.
But any though he is, he is as capable of devotion to his Columbine as Punchinello, and remains faithfully mated year after year.
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