There were pink hollyhock blossoms in the bright brown of her hair.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
He lost his head, danced with her five times, and carried away a crumpled hollyhock bloom that had fallen from her hair during the last Lancers, through which he had watched her.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
It was on the day when the cotton-broker made his failure that the whole world seemed suddenly worthless to the man with the hollyhock bloom in his pocket-book, because he had met her at a dance, and he had been tender, but she, reflecting his mood of their last meeting, had been glacial.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit