Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cudweed or everlasting; the species of the genus Gnaphalium.
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Examples
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In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.
Walden 2004
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A bird sits on the next bough, life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about.
Walden 2004
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Dog-fennel, butterfly-root, and life-everlasting boiled and mixed and made into a syrup will cure pneumonia and pleurisy.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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Mockingbird shows a decided preference for the withered leaves and stems of life-everlasting, better known as the plant that produces
The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson
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Then the path ran through a sedge field, white with the tall silvered panicled-leaves of the life-everlasting.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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The best men and women I have ever known, have never sat at the table of the Lord, so called, have never broken the bread and drank the wine, yet their souls have tasted life-everlasting when they have given in His name food to the hungry and clothing to the naked.
Dawn Harriet A. Adams
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When we got sick we would take butterfly root and life-everlasting and boil it and made a syrup and take it for colds.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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Tie a spoonful of ashes in a rag, and boil it in a pint of water for fifteen minutes, with some catnip or life-everlasting; when the herbs are soft, take out the ashes, and thicken it with corn meal; spread some grease over as you apply it.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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The scented gloom, heavy with the aromatic odors of life-everlasting and sweet fern, gave place to the fresh keen wind with new pine-scents in it, and to the dappled sunshine.
I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931
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They turned and walked slowly across the pasture over the life-everlasting, which diffused under their feet a haunting and ghostly fragrance.
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