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  • You ought to be called Red Rose -- you look like one when you're mad.

    Rainbow Valley 1908

  • The thing that bothers me, is that I don't notice "slut shaming" - something that Tansy points out happens to Red Rose in the current volume that she read and in the first volume of the series too, actually.

    The power of words girliejones 2010

  • That was the reason Howard Pyle told the Red Rose girls that they should never marry; in certain cultures it's pretty much impossible for a woman to ever succeed as a married artist, and that can cause real frustration and tension.

    The Muse and the Marriage James Gurney 2009

  • The programming is designed to appeal to all levels of tea knowledge, including none, so that even those people whose only experience with tea is the random cup made with Lipton or Red Rose tea bags will find the festival instructive and fun.

    NW Tea Festival debuts this week | Seattle Metblogs 2008

  • Can't wait 'till Labour lose and rebrand and we can claim back the Red Rose too...

    A Happy St George's Day 2007

  • One minute after the three-day truce had expired the shooting began; these were shots from English cannons fired by the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment to the sound of the regimental march, The Red Rose.

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • The best place for angle-worms was underneath the white Syringa bush - the tallest bloomer in the garden except the great Red Rose that climbed over the entire wall of the house, tacked to it by strips of red flannel, and whose blossoms were annually counted and reported to the weekly newspaper.

    The Long Ago

  • A more remarkable case of patchwork is _A Red, Red Rose_.

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • When Richard III by his wickedness and cruelty had made all England hate him, the Red Rose party gathered about Henry Tudor, raised an army, and fought against the king in the battle of Bosworth.

    Famous Men of the Middle Ages Addison B. Poland 1885

  • Oriflamme or Red Rose, the _dame de beauté_, all loveliness and light, like a dewdrop, the philosophic _précieuse_, with sesquipedalian phrase, the revolutionist, half nude of body and wholly nude of mind, each in their turn have given their sign and seal to their especial century, for better or for worse.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

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