dandelion clock

"Grandma told us about the lake, the day we blew dandelion clocks."

Masklin felt the idea explode quietly, like a dandelion clock.

It was as silent as a dandelion clock striking midnight, but it had pressure.

Like dynamic dandelion clocks, both seethed in vacuum.

They were laughing, and blowing dandelion clocks, counting the breaths it took for the lacy white spores to leave the green stem.

He has since published two more novels, Sophie (1994) and The Dandelion Clock (1999).

"Let's blow dandelion clocks," Beezie had suggested.

Like a dandelion clock in a breeze, Verest began to spontaneously disassemble, blown apart by mysterious winds.

A tall, willowy being with a shock of white hair like a dandelion clock glided across the floor, followed by what looked like a giant caterpillar.

Lizzie Coombes: "A close-up of a dandelion clock.

Jubilee day dawned with little puffs of warm air carrying the dandelion clocks hither and thither and turning the leaves on the trees inside out.

Sticking in the man's foot was the land version of the sea urchin: a small green disc with spines radiating from it, like a flattened dandelion clock.

Most boy-band types are like dandelion clocks: they look pretty for a while, only then the wind of fashion blows and they are scattered, gone forever.

One puff, you think, and they might fly like dandelion clocks - which is pretty much what happened in the earthquake of 1906, a defining moment in the city's history.

Silence would have been a terrible din compared to the sudden soft implosion of noiselessness that hit the wizards with the force of an exploding dandelion clock.

She had also tried a spell on her hair, but it was naturally magic-resistant and already the natural shape was beginning to assert itself (a dandelion clock at about 2pm).

A mile or so across a meadow of dandelion clocks and fruit trees I can see a village, its red roofs and conical church towers shimmering through the mid-morning heat haze.

The 10 chapters into which the novel is evenly divided have oblique titles ("Dandelion Clock," "Heidi's Grandfather," "Whispering Hope") whose import is initially unclear.

Her platinum hair was as buoyant as a great dandelion clock- She wore a vest and short kilt of snow-while chamois and there were white buskins on her tiny feet.

Like some enormous, dynamic dandelion clock, Verest swarmed in vacuum 50,000 kilometres above the liquid surface of Water, constituted by innumerable, tumbling parts, with internal volumes ranging from a mere 100 cubic metres to over one million.

Textile company Sanderson (www.sanderson-uk.com), which last year celebrated its 150th anniversary, has invited contemporary artists to update its key post-war designs, notably the 'Dandelion Clock' and 'Mobile' patterns, for their Sanderson 50s collection.

In "Dandelion Clock," Pauline, with her second child on the way, living uneasily with husband, baby and "Mother" Anton in an apartment above the store, discovers that Michael has commemorated her 23rd birthday by giving her a canning kettle.

One of the sacks was ripped from his arms as he struggled yet again with the hall-door, and the soft tufts of plucked wool, black and brown and light brown and milky, flowered into the air like a dandelion clock and were blown away just as quickly.