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My violets, spring beauties, anemones, and dutchman's breeches here are always two weeks ahead of those in the woods.
The Harvester 1911
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The branches met overhead, darkening the narrow chasm; the steep banks were spattered with dutchman's breeches that fluttered like butterflies poised for a moment; down stream a few yards, where the valley widened, lay a tiny meadow where the sun fell full on a carpet of crow-foot violets that gave back the May sky.
Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904
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Among the climbers are grapes, three species; trumpet flower; Virginia creeper; honey-suckle, three species; smilax or green brier, three species; moon seed, (Menispermum); poison sumach; Decumaria barbata, L.; wild ginger or dutchman's pipe, Aristolochia sipho, L'Her, and Virgin's bower Clematis, two species.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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My violets, spring beauties, anemones, and dutchman's breeches here are always two weeks ahead of those in the woods.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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"Come, Smoothly," said Rowell, "you remind me of the dutchman's horse -- devilish hard to catch, and not worth much after you are caught."
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839
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Shaw went to a dutchman's house, not far distant and with artful affection of great fatigue and an ingenious representation of his sufferings
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