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lad's love

British  

noun

  1. another name for southernwood

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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What did not cease, however, was the lad's love for Suzanne, or her love for him, which, if possible, was yet deeper.

From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Haggard, Henry Rider

In some ways it was strengthened by the lad's love for her children; by his grief, scarcely less than her own, at the death of her eldest little girl.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

It was in this time of siege that I came to know, as I had not known before, the depth and tenderness of my dear lad's love for me.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

And, oh, the fragrant spices from the lad's love by the gate!

From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Inchfawn, Fay

Gentle wind, but once— speak low and tenderly— How fares it—tell me truly—with the lad's love by the gate?

From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Inchfawn, Fay

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