Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hardy evergreen, Panax Colensoi, of New Zealand.
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Examples
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The same ambition that actuates a monarch at the head of his army influenced my father at the head of his table: he told the story of the ivy-tree, and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that; but the story of Taffy in the sedan chair was sure to set the table in a roar.
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But shoo were fast asleep, wi 'Throp aside her snorin' like an owd ullet i 't' ivy-tree.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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The same ambition that actuates a monarch at the head of his army influenced my father at the head of his table: he told the story of the ivy-tree, and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that; but the story of Taffy in the sedan chair was sure to set the table in a roar.
Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849
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The same ambition that actuates a monarch at the head of his army influenced my father at the head of his table: he told the story of the ivy-tree, and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that; but the story of
Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821
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