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To the right of them sprang up the slim fraxinella, the centranthus draped with snowy blossoms, and the greyish hounds-tongue, in each of whose tiny flowercups gleamed a dewdrop.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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The bright hounds-tongue looks merely like a spot of bright paint; but a young violet glows like painted glass.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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