heliotrope

How To Use heliotrope In A Sentence

• In one year, 50,000 scarlet pelargoniums were planted, and in 1854, the collections of calceolarias, lobelias, petunias, verbenas, gaultherias, alyssums, nemophilas, salvias, heliotropes, dwarf rhododendrons and azaleas, displays which influenced exhibitions across the rest of the country.
• I would create the smell of purity", he says, but instead of choosing predictable "pure" acquatic or ozonic notes, the perfumer opts for the ingredients that would evoke "the color white": "I would use powdery floral notes such as heliotrope, but it would also be spicy, and have iris, also violets and woods. Archive 2007-08-01
• The small aromatic flower which we call heliotrope, with its violet hue and delightful perfume, more nearly answers the description. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
• An earlier version of the heliograph known as the heliotrope was used during the American civil war.
• The purple-brown spots and smears, called heliotrope, on her eyelids. Cynical Dad
• Surround a garden bench with heliotrope or aromatic foliage plants like scented geraniums.
• Deborah and I are very fond of it "-- here she sighed --" but for certain reasons -- reasons you would not understand -- we do not like to hear the word heliotrope mentioned. Scottish Ghost Stories
• 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
• Mrs. Chilton stood on the steps, exchanging smiles and polite nothings, and, as one of the party requested permission to break a sprig of geranium growing near, she gracefully offered to collect a bouquet, adding, as she severed some elegant clusters of heliotrope and jasmine: Beulah
• Few insects can compare with it in beauty, as it hovers over the flowers of the heliotrope, which furnish the favourite food of the perfect fly, although the caterpillar feeds on the aristolochia and the _betel leaf_, and suspends its chrysalis from its drooping tendrils. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon