bachelor's-buttons
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It was almost dusk, and I stopped in the garden a minute to pull the earth closer round some of the bachelor's-buttons that had "popped" the ground some weeks ago.
From The Melting of Molly by Daviess, Maria Thompson
We have bachelor's-buttons, lady-slippers, tiger-lilies, flower-de-luce, hollyhocks, and pinks, besides bushes of lilac and matrimony; then we have old cedars clipped into shape, and ever so many little paths and garden-beds edged with box.
From The Old Stone House by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
In our wee garden the rose unfolds, With bachelor's-buttons and marigolds; I'll tie no posies for dance or fair, A willow-twig is for me to wear.
From Sixteen Poems by Allingham, William
If he talked of jessamine and Daphne odora, I talked of phlox and bachelor's-buttons.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
Our bachelor's-buttons are ragged sailors in a neighboring state; they are corn-pinks in Plymouth, ragged ladies in another town, blue bottles in England, but cyanus everywhere.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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