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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as dogwood, 1.
Examples
“Nautauquas had seated himself in the crotch of a dogwood-tree and looked with interest at his sister below him.”
“On a southern hillside he found a dogwood-tree with its blossomed firmament of white stars.”
“Flower and leaf resemble those of the dogwood-tree, to which family the bunchberry belongs.”
“Fox crope up de leanin 'dogwood-tree twel he come nigh de grapes, en den he sorter ballunce hisse'f on a lim' en gun um a swipe wid his big bushy tail, fer ter bresh off de bugs.”
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
“On you goes down de hill twel you come ter 'n'er branch, en on dat branch dars a dogwood-tree leanin' 'way over, en nigh dat dogwood dars a vine, en in dat vine, dar you'll fine yo' grapes.”
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
“My eyes being attracted by a little commotion on a dogwood-tree, I saw a saucy tufted titmouse chasing with cries one of the wrens who had food in its beak.”
“I sat down upon a log -- that same log of the liriodendron -- and under the shade of a spreading dogwood-tree.”
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