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The young girl was as sweet and as fresh as an opening rosebud, and her voice was as musical as the whisper of a stream in the woods in the hot days of summer.— The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales
A flower that might well have been styled a rosebud--a neat little girl in pink with a natty straw hat--tripped lightly down and stood on the platform beside the poor waifs.— Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories
Face fair as a lily; nose straight and small; mouth like a rosebud; eyes blue as the sky.— Sue, A Little Heroine
"You are a nice young rosebud, I must say, to be snooping around this way!— We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
"Why," said Phil, "I couldn't believe my eyes at first; but true it was, all the same,--there was our gentle 'rosebud' pommelling away at a fellow nearly twice his size!— We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses

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