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Doubtless the aster's remote ancestors were simple green leaves around the vital organs, and depended upon the wind, as the grasses do -- a most extravagant method -- to transfer their pollen.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Each flower is a circle of little rays, spreading on every side: but, if you should pull it to pieces to look for a family like that of the rose, you would be sadly confused about it; for the aster's plan of living is very different from the rose's.

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children Jane Andrews 1860

The golden-rod also lives in communities, but yet not exactly after the aster's plan, -- in smaller houses generally, and these of course contain fewer families.

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children Jane Andrews 1860

My very first, or at least second letter, undeceived him in those views, and our correspondence (298) was broken off before he quitted his aster's business at Bristol-so that his disappointment with me was but his first ill success; and he resented my incredulity so much, that he never condescended to let me see him.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

Frankly, we prefer panelist Erica Firment's take: "Funologist = People with [m] aster's degrees in Information Science attempting to gently convince engineers that their video game interfaces suck."

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