Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bishop's-cap or miterwort, Mitella diphylla: so called from some resemblance of the leaves to those of the currant.
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Examples
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When I had finishd the butter, I threw the currant-leaf out of the window, and was going to do the same by the waste paperbut stopping to read a line first, and that drawing me on to a second and thirdI thought it better worth; so I shut the window, and drawing a chair up to it, I sat down to read it.
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He had brought the little print of butter upon a currantleaf; and as the morning was warm, he had beggd a sheet of waste paper to put betwixt the currant-leaf and his hand.
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When I had finished the butter, I threw the currant-leaf out of the window, and was going to do the same by the waste paper; — but stopping to read a line first, and that drawing me on to a second and third, — I thought it better worth; so I shut the window, and drawing a chair up to it, I sat down to read it.
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When I had finished the butter, I threw the currant-leaf out of the window, and was going to do the same by the waste paper; - but stopping to read a line first, and that drawing me on to a second and third, - I thought it better worth; so I shut the window, and drawing a chair up to it, I sat down to read it.
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When I had finished the butter, I threw the currant-leaf out of the window, and was going to do the same by the waste paper; -- but stopping to read a line first, and that drawing me on to a second and third, -- I thought it better worth; so I shut the window, and drawing a chair up to it, I sat down to read it.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Laurence Sterne 1740
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