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- noun Plural form of
everlasting .
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Examples
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The flowers are very durable, either cut or in the growing state; they may be used to advantage with dried grasses, ferns, and "everlastings;" or the whole head, when cut, is a good substitute for gold-paper clippings in an unused fire grate; our people have so used one for two years, and it has still a fresh appearance.
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There are plenty of these amiable "everlastings" at
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera
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A garden of pleasant annual flowers is not complete that does not contain some of the "everlastings" or immortelles.
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Lastly, They shall enjoy this blissful and glorious state for evermore: therefore it is termed everlastings life (John xvii.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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"everlastings," dwarfed blossoms of the laurestinus; at the four angles the drooping bud of a Christmas rose; at the head of the grave was a white stone, its sharp edges cutting into the starlit air; and on the head, in fresh letters, were inscribed these words: --
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"everlastings," dwarfed blossoms of the laurestinus; at the four angles the drooping bud of a Christmas rose; at the head of the grave was a white stone, its sharp edges cutting into the starlit air; and on the head, in fresh letters, were inscribed these words: --
Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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This was the house appointed for all living; crosses, monuments, and garlands of everlastings announced, “The Protestant Cemetery, outside the gate of Louvain.”
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Opposite the door hung a dark-coloured icon with a wax candle sticking to it and a bunch of everlastings hanging down from it.
Resurrection 2003
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The short-lived grass, green now as that of an English meadow, was picked out into patterns by the scarlet of the Running Postman; purple sarsaparilla festooned the stems of the scrub; there were vast natural paddocks, here of yellow everlastings, there of heaths in full bloom.
Australia Felix 2003
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From the beams in the barn we hung herbs and everlastings to dry.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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