rabbit-foot

• “The Giants overall aren't a rabbit-foot sort of group.”

  The Wall Street Journal: How Much Luck Is Needed? (No, Not Andrew)

• “From dire threats, such as pushing in the front of his face, from rabbit-foot fetishes to lucky horseshoes, from dinky jerkwater bids to the quarter-of-a-million-dollar offers of irresponsible nobodies, he knew the whole run of the surprise portion of his mail.”

  Chapter I

• “Also rabbit-foot clover, mullein, day-lilies, and the first of the vexed purple loosestrife of the season.”

  Sunday roadkill report

• “She picked a piece of rabbit-foot clover, still with one of its fuzzy, grayish pink flowers in place.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Unquiet

• “On the walk back, I noticed the rabbit-foot clover is coming into bloom--so pretty.”

  rain and sun

• “We are slowly emerging from the crash of '93, and the cuckoos are cock-sure that Cleveland hoodooed with that financial rabbit-foot known as the gold-reserve -- that a country fairly bursting with wealth was saved from the demnition bowwows by the blessed expedient of going into debt; that labor found salvation by shouldering an added burden in the shape of interest-bearing bonds.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12

• “But this is a magic rabbit-foot," Jimmie retorted, scornfully as if any sane person ought to know of the virtues of a left hind rabbit-foot.”

  Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box

• “Slow-plodding perseverance is almost sure to tell against rabbit-foot, if not in a quarter race, in the elongated life race, which is most unerring test of "bottom.”

  Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,

• “The clovers, though thoroughly naturalized, are most of them imported plants: the downy "rabbit-foot," or "stone-clover," the common red variety; the "zig-zag," and the "hop clovers" are all introduced.”

  Rural Hours

• “Known as the Rabbit Foot King, Brand has turned out about 1,000,000 of these furry charms annually for the past 15 years in his rabbit-foot factory in New York's fur district and has cleaned up a small fortune in doing it.”

  Modern Mechanix

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