pursley

English: purselane, pursley, purslane Kamba: kamama, kamumama (Kitui), kinyukwi Kikuyu: gatumia Luo: obwanda

Chapter 7 1999

Enid was sitting on the porch floor, her back against a pillar, and her feet on one of those round mats of pursley that grow over hard-beaten earth.

XI. Book Two: Enid 1922

Enid was sitting on the porch floor, her back against a pillar, and her feet on one of those round mats of pursley that grow over hard-beaten earth.

One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

In a country neighborhood where half the people were cousins to the other half, gossip could not but spring up and flourish as lushly as pursley, -- named by the Indians, "the white man's foot."

When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876

The wife's irrational longing to extract absolute sympathy of taste, opinion and feeling, from her wedded lord, is a baneful growth which is as sure to spring up about the domestic hearth as pursley -- named by the Indian, "the white man's foot" -- to show itself about the squatter's door.

The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

"All last year's is out, and Mr. Didenhover ha'n't fetched any of this year's home; so I made a bargain with 'em, they shouldn't starve as long as they'd eat boiled pursley."

Queechy 1854

"All last year's is out, and Mr. Didenhover ha'n't fetched any of this year's home; so I made a bargain with 'em they shouldn't starve as long as they'd eat boiled pursley."

Queechy Susan Warner 1852

"All last year's is out, and Mr. Didenhover aint fetched any of this year's home; so I made a bargain with 'em, they shouldn't starve as long as they'd eat boiled pursley."

Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852