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- noun Plural form of
eglantine .
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Examples
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He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.
Les Miserables 2008
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In the middle was a slate sundial on a brick pedestal; four flower beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen garden bed.
Madame Bovary 2003
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They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.
Madame Bovary 2003
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English turf: we root up the brambles and eglantines which might tear the skirts of the ladies.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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Book in hand, I meditated upon the way in which those whom Love destroys with its cruel malady wander through the secret paths in the depth of the myrtle forest, and, as I meditated, the quivering reflections of the stars came and mingled with those of the leafless eglantines in the waters of the cloister fountain.
Penguin Island 1909
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Page brick pedestal; four flower beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen garden bed.
Madame Bovary 1902
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Book in hand, I meditated upon the way in which those whom Love destroys with its cruel malady wander through the secret paths in the depth of the myrtle forest, and, as I meditated, the quivering reflections of the stars came and mingled with those of the leafless eglantines in the waters of the cloister fountain.
Penguin Island Anatole France 1884
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Plant no "forget-me-nots" or eglantines around the spot, for flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath.
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He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.
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If you have time, draw all the rows of cabbages, and hollyhocks, and broken fences, and wandering eglantines, and bossy roses: you cannot have better practice, nor be kept by anything in purer thoughts.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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