foxglove-flowers

Updated: January 13, 2026

We ascended the tower of the chapel, and looked down between its battlements into the street, a hundred feet below us; while clambering half-way up were foxglove-flowers, weeds, small shrubs, and tufts of grass, that had rooted themselves into the roughnesses of the stone foundation.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862

We ascended the tower of the chapel, and looked down between its battlements into the street, a hundred feet below us; while clambering half-way up were foxglove-flowers, weeds, small shrubs, and tufts of grass, that had rooted themselves into the roughnesses of the stone foundation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches: A Series of English Sketches