campanile

Example Sentences

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Her thoughts bent down as an ear of corn fully ripe, as clustering campanulas in the fields.

From The Fisher Girl by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

Their feet were bedded deep in sweet fern and wild raspberries, and golden-rod, and purple scabious, and tall blue campanulas.

From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles

The jar with the big campanulas stood in the corner; the mignonettes breathed softly an atmosphere of fragrance; her muslin work was in Chatty's hand.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

The hair-bells with their pale blue, and the dark-purple campanulas, give the complement of blue absent in the lower meadows, while the tiny milkwort is as deep an ultramarine as the Alpine gentians themselves.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)

Narcissi, chrysanthemums, violets, carnations, campanulas, roses, pansies, irises, sweet peas, and many other flowers are here raised, and disposed of in the form both of cut flowers and of plants.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various