She picks up a flinty pebble and puts it in her pocket; breaks off a sprig of heather and folds it into her map.
His research done, he sent her his manuscript - plus a jaunty sprig of heather from the Yorkshire moors - timed to arrive on his subject's birthday.
The animal's midriff bulges slightly, and, as it perches at a slight angle on a sprig of heather, I can see its belly, half exposed and wholly lacking the pattern on its back.
Macdonald's seat was draped in Clanranald tartan and a sprig of heather decorated his desk.
He adds: " ' Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre ' is, for me, one of the saddest lines I have ever read in any poem". I would say that " odeur du temps " simply means "scent of time," meaning that the sprig of heather will always remind her of this last hour together on Earth.
It featured not only yellow roses but red and pink solitaires, along with sprigs of heather, freesia, and alstroemeria; green and white calla lilies; blue irises; mums; and some other things the girl had plucked from buckets and waved in the air for him to see and approve.
They run sprigs of white heather on the inside of their fur-lined helmets for good luck, and tie two stuffed animals — black cats, both — to a strut behind the cockpit.
Neither does it seem likely that, on hearing the news, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine or Maggie Gyllenhaal promptly barricaded themselves into their Hollywood bunkers, clutched sprigs of lucky heather to their bosoms and thought, "Me next?" Thankfully, sections of the world's press are more up to speed on the issue.
Sprigs of deep mauve bell heather stand out amid the faded remnants of the bright patches seen only a few weeks ago.
"Heather... grass... more heather".
