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- noun Plural form of
anemony .
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Examples
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There were May flowers, violets and anemonies, in spring time; box, whortle, and black berries, in summer, and acorns and walnuts in autumn.
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The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming.
Advice and News 1919
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The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming.
Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919
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Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.
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We have enjoyed this fine day: had a delightful walk before dinner in a hanging wood by the water-side -- pretty sheep-paths, wood anemonies in abundance, with their white flowers in full blow.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Sea anemonies sprouted from between my classmates 'legs ....
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Pretty hydrangeas (which go a long way for little $$), lavendar, lilac, anemonies, peonies, garden roses, things like that.
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In the Ipringi the fields are enamelled with anemonies of all fortt.
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"anemone-words;" for anemonies are flowers, which, however brilliant, only please the eye, leaving no fragrance.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Strawberries in full bloom, violets, anemonies, heart’s-ease, and wild pinks, with many other, and still lovelier flowers, which my ignorance forbids me to name, literally covered the ground.
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