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  • But what can the woodsorrel and the mourning-dove, who deal only with eternals, know of the thorny sociabilities of human living?

    One Writer Sarah Weinman 2010

  • It has a leaf resembling that of the woodsorrel, and a pink flower the shape of a primrose, but with smaller petals.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • He led her through the house and up to a large spare guest chamber, rather away from the other sleeping chambers of the house, and he quickly brought to her there a bath and hot water, and certain herbs specially prepared -- wormwood, woodsorrel, angelica, and so forth.

    The Sign of the Red Cross Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • There's wormwood, woodsorrel, masterwort, zedoary, and angelica; and lastly, there is a little bottle of the sovereign preservative against the plague, as prepared by the great Lord

    Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • It is within reach of my dear old walks, the banks where I find my violets, the meadows full of cowslips, and the woods where the woodsorrel blows ....

    Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

  • The only time that I have heard the nightingale, I drove, the one mild day we have had, to a wood where I used to find the woodsorrel in beds; only two blossoms of that could be found, but a whole chorus of nightingales saluted me the moment I drove into the wood. '

    Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

  • The coppices are carpeted with primroses, with pansies and wild strawberry blossom, -- the woods are spangled with the delicate flowers of the woodsorrel and wood anemone, the meadows enamelled with cowslips ....

    Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

  • In trials with potted rose, phlox, coreopsis and pasque flower, the treatment killed or reduced the growth of annual bluegrass, common chickweed, creeping woodsorrel and liverwort.

    unknown title 2009

  • In trials with potted rose, phlox, coreopsis and pasque flower, the treatment killed or reduced the growth of annual bluegrass, common chickweed, creeping woodsorrel and liverwort.

    High Plains Journal 2009

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