"Gillyflower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rose is red, the violet is blue, The gillyflower is sweet and so are you: These are the words you bade me say For a pair ...
— The Little Mother Goose • Anonymous
... is red, the violet blue, The gillyflower sweet, and so are you; These are the words you bade me say, For a pair of new ...
— Rhymes Old and New • M.E.S. Wright
... themselves, poor things, I dare say, wondered much at their bravery, and no less I am sure did the riders. They looked for all the world like living haberdashery shops. Great bunches of wallflower, thyme, spearmint, batchelor buttons, gardeners' gartens, peony roses, gillyflower, and southernwood, were stuck in their button holes; and broad belts of stripped silk, of every colour in the rainbow, were flung across their shoulders. As to their hats, the man would have had a clear e'e that could have ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir |
