mountain daisy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountain daisy
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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The “gowan” is the mountain daisy of Scotland.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Know that blood has been as familiar to her as the dew to the mountain daisy.
From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott
He sings of the mountain daisy turned up by his plough; his heart goes out to the mouse rendered homeless after all its provident care.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
Mabel found a place next to a young, sweet-faced country woman, and looked, with her flower-like face and French costume, like some rare exotic by the side of a humble mountain daisy.
From Choice Readings for the Home Circle by Anonymous
American literature was then just beginning to “glint forth” like Burns’s mountain daisy, and rear its tender form above the parent earth.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
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