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I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses play ring around the roses,
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Her epigraph for chapter 23, “The Festival of Roses,” reads: A ring -- a ring of roses,
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Blount, looking down upon his own crimson stockings and yellow roses,
Kenilworth 2004
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And I will pluck them all sweet lily, pink and roses,
Sweet Lemeney 1999
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He kissed her sweet lips that were redder than the roses,
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Where vanish and revive, thro 'veils of the ashes of roses,
Lundy's Lane and Other Poems Duncan Campbell Scott
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He swore that my breath it was sweeter than roses,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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The May shower had been followed by sunshine as she handed her guest a huge bouquet of roses,
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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There's many a prince, whose couch is strown with roses,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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But like every summer blossom, lilies fade and so do roses,
Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Edmund O. Jones
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