An anemone (pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee), sometimes called a "windflower" for reasons that should clear shortly, is a member of the buttercup family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rockford Register Star Home RSS] Reference

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference

So, though he be as fragile as a windflower, he may assure himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

Alfred Austin says, "With windflower honey are my tresses smoothed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

She gave him her hand, light as a windflower in his, and as cold when he kissed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

The bright blue flowers of a windflower (Anemone blanda) pop out against the white leaves of a nearby lamium, which also is in bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Insecurity] Reference

Here shook the windflower; there the blue-bells gleamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference

The lovely blue windflower (Anemone Apennina) is, I believe, one of these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden] Reference

What new presence quivered in every listening harebell and every fearful windflower?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gala-days] Reference

Had she been a 'nowadays aunt' she might have thought that Mary was not unlike a windflower herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Quaker Saints] Reference

Only one starry white windflower, clasped tight in her fingers through the long night hours, gradually drooped and died.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Quaker Saints] Reference

Abbey Burn, the wilder, vaster spaces of broom and gorse, the windflower and hyacinth in the woods and sheltered spaces of the Glenanmays Water!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patsy] Reference

She recoiled from him with a bound, and trembling like a windflower indeed, her large blue eyes dilating at the intruder with a dismay beyond words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taken Alive] Reference

Perhaps it would be in the flower garden, perhaps in the summer-house, perhaps in the plantation woods where the windflower and the Judas tree were in bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

And farther east near Cleveland at The Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary, slender trillium, windflower and a dozen other flowering native plants have become showy in recent weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

The scarf is called ginpaku kazahana no uzuginu (lit. silver-white windflower light silk), and is a family heirloom handed down through the generations to the head of the Kuchiki family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Hers was not the forced exotic bloom of fashionable life; but rather one of the native blossoms of her New England home, having all the delicacy and at the same time hardiness of the windflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taken Alive] Reference

I had thought of her as a snowdrop at first, then a windflower, the March anemone, with its touch of crimson, then various white, ivory, and cream-coloured blossoms with a faintly-seen pink blush to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference

Ingenious as Marino truly was in conducting his romance upon so vast a scheme through all its windings to one issue, we feel that the slender tale of a boy's passion for the queen of courtesans and his metamorphosis into the scarlet windflower of the forest supplied no worthy motive for this intricate machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

'The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethel Morton's Enterprise] Reference

Hypnotic Duo - Blood River (Original Mix) 20. fog-windflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mediafire Rapidshare Megaupload Hotfile Torrent. Only newest mp3 traks, mixes, live sets, radio shows.Trance, house, progressive,techno, electro...] Reference

‘suckstone’ or the ‘lickstone’; and the anemone the ‘windflower’.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

Betty is a windflower, Sir Charles, a little tender timid flower, frail and sweet -- are you not, Betty? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia] Reference

What-cheer! "as we drove along, and we saw a few late groups of that charming windflower, the anemone, white and pink and purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [My beloved South,] Reference

A lady like a windflower fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Balen] Reference

And find the windflower playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shropshire Lad] Reference

And there's the windflower chilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shropshire Lad] Reference

Is it because the windflower apes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

And there’s the windflower chilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [XXIX. 'Tis spring; come out to ramble.] Reference

The windflower opens its tinted cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People] Reference

Or wild halloos, a windflower in her ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

And the shade-loved white windflower, half hid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

(2) The "lilies of the field" surpassing Solomon in glory were lilylike plants; needless to suppose that any others, e.g. the windflower of Palestine, were intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Other names are gosling flower, sandflower, windflower, wild crocus, and anemone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rich Wolf: Where Do All the Flowers Grow?] Reference