Flowers Flashcards
“they chorused…
…except one”
“the red-
-eyed dissenter”
“small
sulky girl”
“red
ribbon”
“Huffishly,
Margaret nodded”
“Miss Laing was
exhilarated.”
“‘There they are,
children,’ she cried. ‘There are the true flowers of our country”
“The most
precious, the most beautiful”
“her excessive…
…white-haired enthusiasm”
“hands on
their Bibles”
“long thin
lassie-like legs”
“twinkled
under his torn kilt”
“gabbled to
one another in Gaelic”
“mysterious and
hateful to her Lowland ears”
“streaming
like fire”
“red br
anches
“she didn’t want
to be safe from bombs”
“where in a
day they’d wither”
“suddenly
she jumped up over the dyke”
“gold and
silver spangles swimming in it like wonderful swans”
“green with
gold and black zig-zag markings”
“greeney-grey
lichened stone and gently waving fronds of bracken”
“black
tongue spitting in and out”
“It seemed to
represent not only that detestable alien country but her own wickedness in disobeying”
“she snatched
up a stick of hazel”
“She was amazed
because she hadn’t though a snake would have red blood in it”
“yellow
flower”
“its beauty,
harmlessness, and its loneliness there amidst the tall brackens”
“and hold
it against her cheek
“a black and
white bird with long red legs and beak”
“more birds
rose and screamed”
“glittering
water”
“Smiling
shyly”
“red-beaked
birds screamed again”
“her whole
body seemed frozen in the cold bright sea”
“the yellow flower was
crushed into a green and black mess”
“gleaming
bones”
“Weeping and yelling,
she rubbed it madly on the grass”
