English daisy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of English daisy
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Like the English daisy, it grows everywhere, and the sight of its bright starry blossoms delights every eye.
From In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
In this room, one morning, late in Lent, Leila Dick sat, looking as out of place as an English daisy in a tropical jungle.
From Contrary Mary by Temple Bailey
An American cowslip is not an English cowslip, an American primrose is no English primrose, and the English daisy is no country friend of ours in America.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
And we saw it was a white English daisy, ringed with red.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes
Spenser's genius was country-less as Ariel; search ever so diligently, you will not find an English daisy in all his enchanted forests.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
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