hellebore

How To Use hellebore In A Sentence

• Over the meadows spread the regular Chinese-pagodas of the equisetum, (horsetail or scouring-rush,) and the rich coarse vegetation of the veratrum, or American hellebore. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
• A natural glen is planted with an assortment of shade-loving plants, including hellebores, ferns, fucshias, azaleas and primroses.
• It includes woodland planting of hellebores and spring bulbs. Times, Sunday Times
• Covering the hillside around the patio is a tapestry of astilbes, azaleas, campanulas, ferns, hellebores, hostas, Japanese maples, moss, and rhododendrons.
• A natural glen is planted with an assortment of shade-loving plants, including hellebores, ferns, fuchsias, azaleas and primroses.
• This seems to me like it would be a difficult color range to achieve, considering the amount of blue in most hellebore flowers.
• I took the only hint which the address gave: I inquired for hellebore, but they told me it was not now recognized, that the old notion of its value was quite obsolete, and that they had nothing which was considered a specific in senary or septenary cases. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
• No pharmacopolist could sell one grain of hellebore, -- not a single armourer had a heart to forge one instrument of death; -- Friendship and Virtue met together, and kiss'd each other in the street; the golden age returned, and hung over the town of Abdera -- every A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
• The shrubs include camellias, hellebores, pieris and hydrangeas, which make a splendid sight when in bloom.
• The same author comments that quail were not eaten much in classical times, apparently because they were thought to be unwholesome because of eating poisonous plants such as hellebore.