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  • noun Alternative form of dog rose.

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Examples

  • It is in the painful summertime when the dogrose closes its eye, the hard summertime with the nests without eggs, when you shy away in the twilight under the whitebeams, when the brook whispers good night in the middle of the day, where you glimpse the too-white calf and the dog with his inside-out skin.

    Artur Lundkvist greenintegerblog 2008

  • The Three Ps would take footpaths haphazard across fields, and plunge into unknown winding lanes between high hedges of honeysuckle and dogrose.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

  • It is an ordinary dry ditch, full of nettles and overgrown with elder and dogrose, and in no way suggestive of an arsenal.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

  • Tho 'dogrose and anemone are fair in their degree,

    Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

  • If you only heard her you would be capable of falling in love with a dogrose, or of feeling a lively sympathy and a profound sentiment of compassion for a violet, its misfortunes and its silent sufferings.

    The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian

  • Christmas Day: gathered a handful of daisies in full bloom: saw a woodbine and dogrose in the woods putting out in full leaf, and a primrose root full of ripe flowers.

    Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

  • It is an ordinary dry ditch, full of nettles and overgrown with elder and dogrose, and in no way suggestive of an arsenal.

    The History of Mr. Polly 1906

  • The Three Ps would take footpaths haphazard across fields, and plunge into unknown winding lanes between high hedges of honeysuckle and dogrose.

    The History of Mr. Polly 1906

  • Christmas Day: gathered a handful of daisies in full bloom: saw a woodbine and dogrose in the woods putting out in full leaf, and a primrose root full of ripe flowers.

    Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872

  • They walked up the last and steepest hill, or rather bounded along the well known side path, catching at the long trailing wreaths of the dogrose, peeping over the gates which broke the high hedge, where

    The Two Guardians or, Home in This World Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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