mountain daisy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountain daisy
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Growth of Appreciation of Nature.—More appreciation of nature followed the development of broader sympathy, Burns wrote a lyric full of feeling for a mountain daisy which his plow had turned beneath the furrow.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
It resembles the feathery, white mountain daisy, and grows in the same region; but its rays are wider and give the blossoms a somewhat more substantial look.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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