bachelor's-buttons
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Then her eyes fell upon the poor flower bed overgrown with weeds, through which the bachelor's-buttons and London-pride were pushing their way into bloom.
From The Life of Nancy by Jewett, Sarah Orne
The crimson ramblers, the hollyhocks, the bachelor’s-buttons, and the peonies, the twisted apple tree that never bore more than enough for one pie!
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
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
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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