Long afterwards that girl will retain an unconscious memory of the scene, when, wheeling her employer's children out on some suburban road, she seeks a green meadow and makes a cowslip ball for the delighted infants.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The beautiful white greyhound's mocking treatment of the surly dog on the chain then follows, and other pretty scenes and adventures, until after some mishaps and much trouble the cowslip ball is at length completed.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Did you ever see a cowslip ball, Lizzie?
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson