bachelor's-buttons
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It has become quite plentiful among us in the last few years, and whole fields may often be seen covered with its lovely bright-blue blossoms, which are known as "ragged sailors," and "wild bachelor's-buttons."
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Although he had never spoken of it, Pat had dreamed of blue flowers nodding along the garden fence; old-fashioned bachelor's-buttons that would spring up as though by accident.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs
I make up beds in the garden for her and she sows bachelor’s-buttons, flytraps, pansies, marigolds, hollyhocks, and has morning-glories running over strings around the sitting-room window.”
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin
It was almost dusk and I stopped in the garden a minute to pull the dirt closer around some of the bachelor's-buttons that had "popped" the ground some weeks ago.
From The Melting of Molly by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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 Maria Thompson Daviess
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