Sentence examples for old poppy from inspiring English sources

Channelling a west coast fashion obsession fit to rival that of Park Avenue princess Blake Waldorf, 16-year old Poppy is shipped off from LA to English boarding school for bad behaviour.

On the cold summit of Mount Tumbledown, where the last, brutal battle of the war was fought in a maze of rocky clefts and blind corners, faded bits of old poppy wreaths blow around in the squalls.

One Portuguese news outlet responded to the new legislation by describing street harassment as piropos ("flirting", or "compliments"), and when 23-year old Poppy Smart recently reported a month-long experience of daily harassment to the police, the Daily Mail front-page headline read: "Girl calls in police after wolf-whistles".

The announcement that he had agreed to an interview with CBS News, the home to attack dogs like Ed Murrow and Dan Rather, raised memories of Rather confronting George H. W. Bush at Black Rock during the 1988 campaign — a set-to that moved old Poppy to comment "It was tension city out there".

The Lukewarm: During the Florida primary, Jeb Bush, Old Poppy's second oldest son, conspicuously failed to endorse Romney, leading to speculation that he might jump into the race as a savior candidate.

Just as an aide to the ailing former President George H. W. Bush was warning his would-be obituarists to hold off, at least for now, news came that one of old Poppy's comrades in arms, Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, the irascible general who led Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 military operation that evicted Saddam Hussein's army from Kuwait, has died in Tampa.

Afterwards I meet Labang Dau Ze, a 24-year-old former poppy farmer who's been clean for a year-and-a-half.

The couple from Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, are engaged but not married, and have two children: Lilly, three, and six-week-old Poppy.

The investigation comes after 92-year-old poppy seller Olive Cooke apparently killed herself earlier this year after feeling overwhelmed by fundraising requests from charities.

Charities' fundraising practices have attracted a lot of attention since the death of Olive Cooke, a 92-year-old poppy seller, in May, with media reports linking her suicide to hundreds of letters and phone calls from charities asking for money, which had left her "exhausted".

The death of Olive Cooke, Britain's oldest poppy seller and long term charity donor, has provoked an outcry.