Cornflower tends to self sow, but needs help in this work from you.
I have mentioned some already for your garden:--Canterbury bell, cornflower and foxglove are biennials.
The red poppy and blue cornflower look pretty among the yellow corn, and there are yellow flowers among the corn also.
He was earnestly endeavouring to persuade a whiskered rustic to bet more money than he owned on Cornflower at 3 to 1.
So did the Bald-faced Kid, edging away from the rustic who, with a Cornflower ticket clutched in his sweating palm, seemed to be trying to swallow the thyroid cartilage of his larynx.
So did Al Engle and those who had been given the quiet tip to play Cornflower for a killing.
For instance, I decorated a room in soft cream, gray, yellow and cornflower blue.
The chintz had a cornflower design that repeated all these colors.
Wife, wife, you have not spoken the truth, and the Armenian has lied as well as you, for he said you did buy the cornflower dress from him.
It consists of the piece of cornflower roots plucked on the morning of Corpus Christi Day by a left-handed person with his back to the sun, and the juice of the cardamom plucked on Maundy Thursday, and mixed with the honey of the queen bee.
The sunsets ran blood-red over cornflower blue hills, and in the foreground stood dark silent primaeval forests of grass and ferns, shading huts which had been built and brilliantly illuminated apparently by a prehistoric race of men.
It was really not possible to find anything more dainty and charming than this beautiful creature, in her white dress, which again was trimmed with cornflower blue ribbons, as when I saw her on the steamer.
This lady was Fraeulein Amalie Duff, and the little maid with the cornflower eyes and ribbons was her pupil, Hermine Streber, the commerzienrath's only child.
Arithelli had arrayed herself in the cornflower blue frock, which she carried with a negligent ease, and she still wore the Panama hat with the flowing veil.
The lace curtains under the cornflower blue brocade were like Brussels wedding veils seen through a magnifying glass.
Ceylon sapphires" are usually paler than the cornflower blue.
The color in sapphires ranges from a pale watery blue through deeper shades (often tinged with green) to the rich velvety cornflower blue that is so much in demand, and on to dark inky blues that seem almost black by artificial light.
The "cornflower blue" seems to be most in favor at present.
Of these minerals the only species that furnishes a fine, deep velvety blue stone is the corundum, and fine specimens of the cornflower blue variety are very much in demand and command high prices.
The blue cornflower is best sown in a long border or bed of unconventional shape, and may be treated like a biennial, one sowing being made in September so that the seedlings will make sturdy tufts before cold weather.
The white-faced houses are festooned and hung with fine filmy fishing-nets of a pale cornflower hue, edged with rows of deep russet-brown corks.
Close to the dark cornflower hills is a patch of brilliant verdant green--so yellow-green that it almost sets your teeth on edge.
Elinor's last suggestion that the daughter might resemble her mother had been taken literally, and all these moments Ross's search had been for a tiny, dainty bit of a girl with cornflower eyes.
It was also true that after smashing President Loubet’s hat the gentry of the cornflower and the white carnation had received their chastisement at the hands of the Socialists.
The rose of France, the cornflower and the white carnation will be left on the ground, in the modest shade beloved of the violet.
Do you really think the King will govern with the white carnation, the cornflowerand the rose of France, and take his ministers from the Jockey Club and from Puteaux, or make Christiani Grand Master of the Ceremonies?
To take you and your mother to the jeweler's to choose the sapphire cornflower I promised you at Roncieres.
And in the far horizon There dwells such tender hue, These azure cornflower blossoms Are not so sweet and blue.
I remarked that it wasn't her place To dictate to the trustee, And Cornflower lifted her eyes of blue And looked what she thought of me.
Nevertheless, she played the part of innocence, making her cornflower eyes eloquent with apology.
A pale woman of spun silk and gossamer, with cornflower eyes and lips like parted poppy-petals!
When she's been married three times," the cornflower eyes became suddenly innocent, "she knows everything.
He didn't want to be at enmity with anybody, least of all with this dainty sprite of a woman with the cornflower eyes and the flaxen hair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornflower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blue; color; flower; pigment
