lad's love

British  

noun

1. another name for southernwood

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Example Sentences

The lad's love for his mother showed itself in a louder and more demonstrative manner.

From Veronica And Other Friends Two Stories For Children by Spyri, Johanna

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

Sweet old-fashioned flowers and flowering shrubs like lad's love were everywhere, and a little green carpet of camomile was spread in the center of the place for the fairies.

From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Inside the gate was a garden, and all its beds were defined by upended stout bottles—weedless, sweet-scented beds wherein grew such blooms as daisies, and violets, stocks, sweetpeas, sweet williams, lad's love and mignonette.

From An Australian Lassie by Johnson, A.J. (Alfred J.)

But the arms that would enfold you Crush the bush of lad's love growing in the dusk beside my feet.

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