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scarlet pimpernel
noun
- a weedy primulaceous plant, Anagallis arvensis, of temperate regions, having small red, purple, or white star-shaped flowers that close in bad weather Also calledpoor man's weatherglassshepherd's weatherglass
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His failure in bringing that interfering Scarlet Pimpernel to justice and the guillotine had completed Chauvelin's downfall.
She was a prisoner in the hands of those who long ago had sworn to bring The Scarlet Pimpernel to death!
It would require more than the ingenuity of the Scarlet Pimpernel himself to untie this Gordian knot.
As for the Scarlet Pimpernel, Chauvelin could not very well conceive what he would do under these present circumstances.
Every hour that the Scarlet Pimpernel succeeds in evading his captors so many deaths lie at his door.
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