How To Use lwei In A Sentence
- And there were so many fascinating plants, edelweiss, even: who would have imagined that? KARA KUSH
- Think how a real rockface looks, with little crevices in which even the elusive edelweiss might survive. Times, Sunday Times
- He was unacquainted with the work either of Holmes or of Semmelweiss, and approached the problem from still another standpoint, drawing attention to the much higher deathrate among women delivered amid unsanitary surroundings. The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
- Bags will be embellished with butterflies, edelweiss, feathers, motor bike straps, stabbed with decorative applied brooches and finished with chunky short shoulder chain straps.
- Even the dignified Sir Alec Guinness was so enamoured of his co-star in ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ that he searched the Swiss mountains for a rare edelweiss to lay at her feet.
- ‘Wave your edelweiss to distract the Nazis,’ Sister Kate instructs, ‘so the von Trapps can make their escape.’
- She is dressed in a tight-fitting black velvet bodice. square-cut at the neck and partly filled in with a gay handkerchief, coloured rose-pink, blue, and golden, like the alpen-rose, the gentian, and the mountain dandelion; alabaster beads, pale as edelweiss, are round her throat; her stiffened. white linen sleeves finish at the elbow; and her full well-worn skirt is of gentian blue. Plays : Second Series
- The flora, especially on the limestone which is one of the most active centers of floristic speciation in the Balkans, includes many rare species such as the Pirin poppy, Papaver pirinica, golden aquilegia Aquilegia aurea, yellow gentian Gentiana lutea and edelweiss Leontopodium alpinum. Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
- Edelweiss, edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.
- She had told Benjamin Dorn that a doughtier, bonnier, more capable person than Fräulein Schimmelweis was not to be found on this earth, and that the two were as much made for each other as oil and vinegar for a salad. Gänsemännchen. English
