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- noun The bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus.
- noun The toad-flax, Linaria vulgaris.
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Examples
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I'd woken up at the bizarre hour of 4:15, couldn't get back to sleep, and decided to treat myself to an eggs-and-bacon breakfast in the coffee shop, where breakfast is much better than the flavorless dinner I had last night.
Archive 2007-10-01 Susan Palwick 2007
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I'd woken up at the bizarre hour of 4:15, couldn't get back to sleep, and decided to treat myself to an eggs-and-bacon breakfast in the coffee shop, where breakfast is much better than the flavorless dinner I had last night.
Knitting Heaven and Earth Susan Palwick 2007
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Breakfast proved two things: Maria's language also worked in the mornings, and breakfast was unlimited coffee and rolls and jam, not the ponderous eggs-and-bacon slammer I'd never been able to afford.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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Big penny-daisies grew in tufts on the brink of the yellow clay at Klondyke, yellow eggs-and-bacon spread their midsummer mats of flower.
The Lost Girl 1907
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When the letters arrived I was engaged in persuading breakfast-lingerers (they of the eggs-and-bacon habit, who ought never to leave their peaceful English homes) that it would give them more real pleasure to be first in the shore boats than last at the table.
It Happened in Egypt 1889
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A dish of fried eggs-and-bacon was ordered from a hideous old wench that came to serve us, in place of the lovely creature I had expected to see; and the Captain, laughing, said, 'Well, our meal is
Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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My heated cabin comes with a cold-water-only sink and leaking toilet, showers are down the trail at a communal bathhouse, and meals eggs-and-bacon breakfasts, steak or stew dinners are served family-style, announced by a clanging bell.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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My heated cabin comes with a cold-water-only sink and leaking toilet, showers are down the trail at a communal bathhouse, and meals eggs-and-bacon breakfasts, steak or stew dinners are served family-style, announced by a clanging bell.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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Traficant is liable to storm out of here at any moment, as every beating heart in this eggs-and-bacon place knows.
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Breakfast battle: Toward the end of the third quarter, Denny's promises to take a swipe at competitors who offer "candy breakfasts" rather than a solid eggs-and-bacon meal.
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