hare's-foot

noun

1. a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers Also calledhare's-foot clover

Example Sentences

He touched his cheeks with the hare's-foot and gave them a richer bloom.

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For some distance our route and the burn ran parallel, their courses sometimes coincident; then we diverged to the left, ascending the slope of a garganta, amidst noble oaks, chestnuts, and ilex, all, save the oaks, in full leaf, and from the gnarled trunks hung hare's-foot ferns and masses of ivy and parasitic plants in green festoons.

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She took the hare's-foot and came to Echo coaxingly.

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Thus he incidentally with great success laid the poor hare's-foot on the rack of the "larded hare," when he contended ironically–for nepotism.

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"Aye, I did so, Sergeant, me 'aving a dried hare's-foot 'ung round my neck d'ye see which same do be a powerful charm, give me by old Betty the witch, a spell as no gobling nor speckiter can abide."

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