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Updated: October 28, 2025
Occasional voices came mysteriously from apparently nowhere, as a party of men went up one of the deep communication trenches close by him a trench invisible in summer until you actually stood over it, for the long rank grass hid everything: grass splashed with the red of great masses of poppies, and the white of the daisies, with odd little patches of blue cornflowers and borage, and buttercups glinting yellow.
And there all day, lying amongst the poppies and cornflowers, we watched the fight of the hour the struggle around Fricourt Wood and the attack on the village of La Boiselle. To call these places villages conveys the idea of recognisable streets and houses.
But never has applause sounded so sweet to me as it did along those dusty roads in France, with the poppies gleaming red and the cornflowers blue through the yellow fields of grain beside the roads! They cheered me, do you ken those tired and dusty heroes of Britain along the French roads!
Yes, and a sort of atmosphere as of some old walled-in English garden, with pinks, and cornflowers, and roses, and scents of lavender and lilaccool and fair, untouched, almost holy all that he had been brought up to feel was clean and good. And suddenly he thought: 'She might come along the front again and see me! and he got up and made his way to the rock at the far end of the beach.
You must lend us Mr. Mitchell, we want to dance. 'What, here in the sand! 'No, in the Salon.... Come along, Rose will play for us. Mildred was the first down. She wore a pretty robe a fleurs, and her straw hat was trimmed with tremulous grasses and cornflowers. A faint sunshine floated in the wet garden. A moment after Elsie cried from the door-step: 'Well, you have got yourself up.
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.
He is a zemindar, and the large house in which he made us welcome stands in his own patrimony. Everything was prepared for us. The mud floors were swept, cotton quilts were laid down on the balconies, blue cornflowers and marigolds, cultivated for religious ornament, were in all the rooms, and the women were in gala dress and loaded with coarse jewellery. Right hearty was the welcome. Mr.
And so we shall arrive at the reverse kind of folly, an admiration and bad imitation of foreign pride and pomp, an arrogant individualism and a hardening of our human feeling. The intellectual war profiteers, who are all for radicalism to-day, will soon be wearing cornflowers in their button-holes. For the third time we shall see an illustration of the naïve shamelessness of the turn-coat.
I wish Mr Macgillivray would come. The bell rang, and the door opened, but it was not Macgillivray. It was a young girl in a white ball-gown, with a cluster of blue cornflowers at her breast. The sight of her fetched Sir Walter out of his chair so suddenly that he upset his coffee cup. 'Mary, my dear, how did you manage it? I didn't expect you till the late train.
"Under no circumstances will I cross with you. You never sit quiet in the boat for a minute. What have you got alive in that handkerchief? See, Granny, I am sure it's a snake." "I have brought you a carp, Tatiana Markovna, which I have caught myself. And these are for you, Marfa Vassilievna. I picked the cornflowers here in the rye." "You promised not to pick any without me.
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