It is unlikely that our two buttercups have EXACTLY the same colour, and if we judged that they had we should have passed altogether outside the region of self-evidence.
All such judgments entail some risk of error, though sometimes perhaps a very small one; some flowers that look like buttercups are marigolds, and colours that some would call yellow others might call orange.
One might instance the belief that two and two are four, that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time, nor one thing in two places, or that a particular buttercup that we are seeing is yellow.
There's
buttercups, and there's daisies, and there's'--the turnkey hesitated, being short of floral nomenclature--'there's dandelions, and all manner of games.
It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw--not beautiful ones like
buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
Then Thistle hastened to the lily, for her cup was deep, and the white leaves fell like curtains over the fragrant bed; he was a dainty little Elf, and could not sleep among the clovers and bright
buttercups.
Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easily through it.
I wish there were any likelihood of my soon seeing Primrose, Periwinkle, Dandelion, Sweet Fern, Clover Plantain, Huckleberry, Milkweed, Cowslip, Buttercup, Blue Eye, and Squash Blossom again.
said Alice, as she leant against a
buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: `I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it
This horse is decidedly, or rather has been in his youth, a
buttercup," resumed the stranger, continuing the remarks he had begun, and addressing himself to his auditors at the window, without paying the least attention to the exasperation of D'Artagnan, who, however placed himself between him and them.
As part of an expansion,
Buttercup has rebranded under the Child's Play name and 35 staff have transferred over, while 135 children currently at
Buttercups will continue to attend.
Picking
buttercups to tell whether or not someone likes butter is generations old
Buttercups are often regarded as the best winter squash for pies.
Boss Chris Bonnett said: "While plants such as
buttercups and dandelions may seem like pests when they crop up in the middle of a lawn, if they are cultivated in a flower bed they can look beautiful and really enhance a garden.
The man walked into
Buttercups and Daisies in Somerford Road, Weoley Castle, and approached the till after picking up a bunch of flowers.
