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Some writers spell the name "Marygold," as if it, and its synonyms bore reference to the Virgin Mary; but this is a mistake, though there is a fancied resemblance of the disc's florets to rays of glory.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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When Lady Augustus reached Marygold the family were at lunch, and as strangers were present nothing was said as to the great mission.
The American Senator 2004
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She felt that she would not know how to tell her story when she got back to Marygold Place.
The American Senator 2004
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When they left Marygold in the Connop Green carriage they smiled, and shook hands, and kissed their friends in unison, and then sank back into silence.
The American Senator 2004
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They had already overstaid the time at first arranged, and Lady Augustus, when she hinted that another week at Marygold, — “just till this painful affair was finally settled,” — would be beneficial to her, was informed that the Connop Greens themselves were about to leave home.
The American Senator 2004
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Hence, in the design to plate 9, Theotormon flagellates his body with a three-thonged whip, whose knots, as Erdman has noted, "look uncannily like the heads of the Marygold flowers" in the design to plate 3 (Illuminated 134) iconographic evidence that the natural forms inspiring multiplicitous vision in Oothoon (see 1: 6-7) can only be vehicles of self-torment for Theotormon.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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Imagine (I say in the Introduction) a history or a profile of the characteristic Romantic poem that, instead of resembling Wordsworth's "Tintery Abbey," with its celebration of the contemplative mind at ease in the countryside, is modeled on Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion, at least on the following passage from it, as Oothoon, full of sexual desire, plucks the flower/nymph Marygold:
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The victim of his great desire for wealth, little Marygold was human child no longer, but a golden statue!
The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck
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Marygold, without taking the apron from her eyes, held out her hand, in which was one of the roses which Midas had so recently changed.
The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck
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What was he told to do in order to restore Marygold to life?
The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck
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