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Faithful sweet-william and phlox had evidently struggled for years and barely held their own against misfortune, and bouncing-bet was thrifty.
Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902
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I am always sure when I see bouncing-bet, butter-and-eggs, and tawny lilies growing in a tangle together that in their midst may be found an untrodden door-stone, a fallen chimney, or a filled-in well.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The botany tells us that bouncing-bet has "escaped from cultivation" -- she has been thrust out, but unresentfully lives and smiles; opening her tender pinky-opalescent flowers adown the dusty roadsides, and even on barren gravel-beds in railroad cuts.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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