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Examples
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While the musk-rose leaves, like flakes of crimson snow,
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Sends from its woods of musk-rose, twined with jasmine,
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Titania, in another part of the wood, distributed her attendants, some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds, some to war with bats for their leathern wings to make small elves 'coats, and some to keep back the clamorous owl that nightly hooted at the quaint spirits.
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Here it is clear that the word, and not the idea, _moon_ produces the simple sheep and their shady _boon_, and that 'the _dooms_ of the mighty dead' would never have intruded themselves but for the '_fair musk-rose blooms_.'
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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QUOTATION: And sweetend every musk-rose of the dale.
Quotations 1919
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Finally, she sat on a moss-bank, reached and took a musk-rose on her palm, and looked hopelessly at it.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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Sends from its woods of musk-rose twined with jasmine
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A fresh-blown musk-rose; twas the first that threw
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The "musk-rose" is never in fact the child of mid-May, as he has it.
Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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The "musk-rose" is never in fact the child of mid-May, as he has it.
The Children Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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