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The two met at an audition for a community theater production in Southern California, and Nixon proposed two years later, delivering her engagement ring in a basket filled with mayflowers.

From Time • Mar. 13, 2012

In the spring we hunted for mayflowers, and sailed boats in the brooks, and gathered fluffy pussy-willows.

From The Story Hour by Smith, Nora Archibald

We were very small, and it must have been in the spring, for we picked mayflowers and found strawberries in the woods.'

From Greifenstein by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

They hunted for mayflowers and found enough to make a bit of a bouquet for her desk in the office.

From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman

He carried some mayflowers up to the west gable and put them under the picture.

From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)