Lettie took the little silver kettle, and went to fill it at the small spring which trickled into a stone trough all pretty with cranesbill and stellaria hanging over, while long blades of grass waved in the water.
"The White Peacock"
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Then, after twelve miles, we descended through the cornland to Dunstanborough, and walked through the sandhills covered with rye-grass and bloody cranesbill to the castle, on a reef of basaltic rocks overhanging the sea, which in one place roars up beneath in a strange cavern, known as the Rumbling Churn.
"Story of My Life, volumes 1-3"
Augustus J. C. Hare
The work of the spring term had been in full swing for nearly a month, when Gowan Barbour, looking at the calendar-hand-painted, with blue cranesbill geraniums-suddenly discovered that next morning would be the festival of St. Valentine.
"The Princess of the School"
Angela Brazil