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Morel usually quarrelled with her lace woman, sympathised with her fruit man who was a gabey, but his wife was a bad 'un laughed with the fish man who was a scamp but so droll put the linoleum man in his place, was cold with the odd-wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish; then she was coldly polite.
'Let's see them off, then we shall have done a polite and kindly act, and we shall be quite sure we've got rid of them for the day. So they did. Martha wore her Sunday dress of two shades of purple, so tight in the chest that it made her stoop, and her blue hat with the pink cornflowers and white ribbon. She had a yellow-lace collar with a green bow.
I painted the furniture a very soft gray, and then painted little garlands of cornflowers in soft blues and gray-greens on each piece of furniture. The walls were painted a soft cream color. The carpet rug of tan was woven in one piece with a blue stripe in the border. The color illustrations of this book will give you a very good idea of how I use chintzes and painted furniture.
The green country extended on either side of the road, and here and there the colza in flower presented a waving expanse of yellow, from which arose a strong, wholesome, sweet and penetrating odor, which the wind carried to some distance. The cornflowers showed their little blue heads amid the rye, and the women wanted to pick them, but Monsieur Rivet refused to stop.
Victorine, on the other hand, by far the prettiest and most sprightly of the three, affected the most supreme indifference to him and his attentions, and hardly deigned to give him a civil word, or to accept the cornflowers and late roses he brought her from time to time. 'Mere weeds, she said. And the grapes and Queen Claude plums he brought her were always sour.
Where broad between its banks stretches the Meuse, mirroring the bloom in the west and the evening star, where the cornflowers look up with heaven's own blue and the poppies cover the fields like a crimson sea, where the skylark unseen is still soaring and singing, and the nightingale from the snowy hawthorn spray warbles divinely at even.
Esther's Sunday best was a blue, voile, a lovely blue, the colour of her eyes when in soft shadow. It was made with a long straight skirt slightly high at the waist, round neck and elbow sleeves and with it went soft, wrinkly gloves and a wide hat trimmed with cornflowers. She knew that she looked well in it and the doctor would be in church.
Life is here around us in its most exquisite forms. Those flowers! Poppies, cornflowers, lilies, tulips whose colours are those of the rainbow. The coast line curving down and far away to meet the extravagant blueness of the Aegean where the battleships lie silent still smoke rising up lazily and behind them, through the sea haze, dim outlines of Imbros and Samothrace.
The waves, stirred by the autumn breeze, rippled lightly, blue as cornflowers, over the yellow sand of the dunes; but the King stood still, shading his eyes with his hand as he gazed at the galley.
'What do you want with cornflowers? to make a wreath? replied the girl; 'come now, go along then. 'Stop a minute, my pretty little dear, Konstantin Diomiditch was beginning. 'There now, go along, the girl interrupted him, 'there are the young gentlemen coming. Konstantin Diomiditch looked round.
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