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bluebottle: see cornflower cornflower, common herb (Centaurea cyanus) of the family Asteraceae ( aster family). It is a garden flower in the United States but a weed in the grainfields of Europe. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He helped them both, and helped himself, and drained his glass, and stood it bottom upward on the table, as though he had just caught a bluebottle in it. As we approached, methought there issued from it a slight humming noise as from one of your Spaceland bluebottles, only less resonant by far, so slight indeed that even in the perfect stillness of the Vacuum through which we soared, the sound reached not our ears till we checked our flight at a distance from it of something under twenty human diagonals. A buzz and hum go up around me, as if the boys were so many bluebottles. |
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