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  • Lead single "Buttercups" delivers a trademark Healy chime, all initial brightness with a sighing, slump-shouldered undercurrent sewn into its inner lining.

    HOME Mike Rengel 2010

  • Now if only he could give up the bad rhymes (on "Buttercups," Healy sings, "I see you sitting in silence outside my house/ Quiet as a mouse"), things might get fully back on track.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • Buttercups and yellow hawkweed and lupines in full cry.

    jhetley: Sunday floral report jhetley 2010

  • Buttercups will bloom golden clouds on his chin& Adam's apple.

    Cider Bubbles 2010

  • I started as a Rosebud with a pink sash, you then moved up to Buttercups the following year and a yellow sash.

    May Day 1950's style, don't laugh! 2007

  • Buttercups is the common name for a whole host of plants, who knows which one a person is referring to?

    Spring Continues And A Rant*(Added) « Fairegarden 2009

  • The name means ’Meadow of Flowers’ and in the spring it’s just that, a rolling meadow dotted with countless colourful Bluebells, Daisies, Forget Me Nots and Buttercups.

    Famous Magazine | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • The Princess Bride is a very well known story, and so I was familiar with names like Buttercups, Fezzik and Inigo Montoya.

    The Princess Bride by William Goldman 2007

  • I started as a Rosebud with a pink sash, you then moved up to Buttercups the following year and a yellow sash.

    40 entries from May 2007 2007

  • I started as a Rosebud with a pink sash, you then moved up to Buttercups the following year and a yellow sash.

    May Day 1950's style, don't laugh! 2007

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