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- herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather
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- She wrote many other historical and romantic novels, including several sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.
- February 15th, 2008 5: 40pm well said Ravi - the scarlet pimpernel AKA field will probably migrate to another page now to continue with his nonsense On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- It is also a pleasure to be invited to revisit the work of authors who delighted me when young: "Sapper" H.C. McNeile and his splendidly ridiculous hero, Bulldog Drummond; Baroness Orczy and her equally absurd but irresistible Scarlet Pimpernel; and that master of wildly romantic adventure, Rafael Sabatini. The Case of the Missing Adventure Story
- We carried on down to Elloughton, with the tiny scarlet pimpernel sparkling as the sun came through. Country diary: East Yorkshire
- The little scarlet pimpernel also makes the same weather forecast, which earned it the nickname "poor man's weather glass". Plantwatch: a great year for wildflowers
- To my growing collection of unread classics I add The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. All Goofed Up « So Many Books
- Having posted this in the * muliculural creeps*section it seems necessary to put it here also as the scarlet pimpernel AKA field posts his nonsence everywhere. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- A wildflower spectacular: wood sorrel, scarlet pimpernel, heartsease, guelder rose and purple orchids. Times, Sunday Times
- To effect this he adopts the role of a foppish member of English society to deter suspicion, while his real, heroic identity is that of the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’, daredevil adventurer.
- His Broadway debut was 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'.