mountain daisy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountain daisy
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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
His heart was in the right place; he did not pile up cantos of poetic diction; he pluck'd the mountain daisy under his feet; he wrote of field-mouse hurrying from its ruin'd dwelling.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
Who that has once read, can ever forget his harmonious and pathetic address to a mountain daisy on turning it up with the plough?
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester
So it comes to pass that Robert Burns mourns when his plow turns under a mountain daisy or destroys the home of a field mouse.
From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
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 Setoun, Gabriel
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