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strawberry-leaves

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  • Mushrooms, instead of strawberry-leaves, should decorate the brows of the upstart French nobility.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Mushrooms, instead of strawberry-leaves, should decorate the brows of the upstart French nobility.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • Condé, marvelling all the same that he was not crowned with strawberry-leaves and looked just like anybody else of the present day.

    The Captive 2003

  • That novel showed us the peer's descendants at the workman's forge, while the manufacturer's grandchildren were wearing the ermine and the strawberry-leaves.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • We see the duchess in her carriage, and gaze with much reverence on the strawberry-leaves on the panels, and her grace within; whereas the odds are that that lovely duchess has had, one time or the other, a desperate flirtation with Willis the

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • "Hoping you are in good health," responded Maria Hobson, making a corner in strawberry-leaves as she just touched the finger-tips.

    The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

  • But, alas! we have no hereditary legislators; and though I feel myself competent to wear the strawberry-leaves, or even to sit upon a throne, I have not been willing to submit to the unsavory contacts of American political life.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

  • Then the strawberry-leaves dying, which [yield] a most excellent cordial smell.

    XLVI. Of Gardens 1909

  • We see the duchess in her carriage, and gaze with much reverence on the strawberry-leaves on the panels, and her grace within; whereas the odds are that that lovely duchess has had, one time or the other, a desperate flirtation with Willis the Conqueror.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • -- How often has "mustn't pick the strawberry blossom" been quoted to this delusive little white cinquefoil in early spring, when it peeps out among leaves very like strawberry-leaves in the hedge.

    John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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