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"Chickweed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... your pardon for repeating such things. I know most conversations reported in books are altogether above such trivial details, but folly will come up at every table as surely as purslain and chickweed and sorrel will come up in gardens. This young fellow ought to have talked philosophy, I know perfectly well; ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... widow of William Beth. Five years had now elapsed since the disappearance of her son and husband, and the cottage bore the marks of neglect and decay. The door and window, bleached white by the sea winds, shook loosely to every breeze; clusters of chickweed luxuriated in the hollows of the thatch, or mantled over the eaves; and a honeysuckle that had twisted itself round the chimney, lay withering in a tangled mass at the foot of the wall. But the progress of decay ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various |
Words linked to "Chickweed" : stitchwort, snow-in-summer, Stellaria, mouse eared chickweed, blinking chickweed, starwort, clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, Arctic mouse-ear, greater stitchwort, field chickweed, Indian chickweed, Cerastium tomentosum, genus Cerastium, water chickweed, mouse ear, Cerastium alpinum, Stellaria holostea, Cerastium, Stellaria media |
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