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He also told us that the pantaloon's name was old Joey, and the columbine's Josy, and the harlequin's Joeykin.
The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898
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Probably even the small bees, collecting pollen only, help carry some from flower to flower; but perhaps the largest bumblebees, and certainly the humming bird, must be regarded as the columbine's legitimate benefactors.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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It will be noticed that our columbine's funnel-shaped tubes contract just below the point where the nectar is secreted -- doubtless to protect it from small bees.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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"I mean ---- Of course the man himself was quite indifferent; no doubt, it is to him just a way of getting a living, like the circus-rider's way or the columbine's.
The Gadfly 1912
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