Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
creeping-bur . - noun Moneywort or herb-twopence, Lysimachia nummularia.
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Examples
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And he stuck flowers in the hair of his own body, and wound a bit of creeping-jenny round his penis, and stuck a single bell of a hyacinth in his navel.
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But Connie, walking behind, had watched the wheels jolt over the wood-ruff and the bugle, and squash the little yellow cups of the creeping-jenny.
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Miles and miles and miles of them, and not a green thing to be seen except the cabbages in the greengrocers 'shops, and here and there some poor trails of creeping-jenny drooping from a dirty window-sill.
Harding's Luck Edith 1909
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"The cocker spannel has got rather a persevering bark," said Dickie, looking up at the creeping-jenny in the window-boxes.
Harding's Luck Edith 1909
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No flowers would grow in the garden, now trampled hard by the indiarubber-soled feet of many dogs; but Dickie did his best with window-boxes, and every window was underlined by a bright dash of colour – creeping-jenny, Brompton stocks, stone-crop, and late tulips, and all bought from the barrows in the High Street, made a brave show.
Harding's Luck Edith 1909
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