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life-everlasting

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cudweed or everlasting; the species of the genus Gnaphalium.

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Examples

  • In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.

    Walden 2004

  • A bird sits on the next bough, life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about.

    Walden 2004

  • Dog-fennel, butterfly-root, and life-everlasting boiled and mixed and made into a syrup will cure pneumonia and pleurisy.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • Mockingbird shows a decided preference for the withered leaves and stems of life-everlasting, better known as the plant that produces

    The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

  • Then the path ran through a sedge field, white with the tall silvered panicled-leaves of the life-everlasting.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • The best men and women I have ever known, have never sat at the table of the Lord, so called, have never broken the bread and drank the wine, yet their souls have tasted life-everlasting when they have given in His name food to the hungry and clothing to the naked.

    Dawn Harriet A. Adams

  • When we got sick we would take butterfly root and life-everlasting and boil it and made a syrup and take it for colds.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • Tie a spoonful of ashes in a rag, and boil it in a pint of water for fifteen minutes, with some catnip or life-everlasting; when the herbs are soft, take out the ashes, and thicken it with corn meal; spread some grease over as you apply it.

    Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

  • The scented gloom, heavy with the aromatic odors of life-everlasting and sweet fern, gave place to the fresh keen wind with new pine-scents in it, and to the dappled sunshine.

    I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • They turned and walked slowly across the pasture over the life-everlasting, which diffused under their feet a haunting and ghostly fragrance.

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

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