Example Sentences

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She wore, I remember, a dress of warm crimson, and she had wound around her head a string of waxberries, that looked like a fillet of pearls.

From The Story Girl by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

There were still some "snowballs" on the great guelder rose-bushes, and the waxberries on the little one's gleamed like pearls.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth