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								Mushrooms, instead of strawberry-leaves, should decorate the brows of the upstart French nobility. Burlesques 2006 
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								Mushrooms, instead of strawberry-leaves, should decorate the brows of the upstart French nobility. 
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								Condé, marvelling all the same that he was not crowned with strawberry-leaves and looked just like anybody else of the present day. The Captive 2003 
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								That novel showed us the peer's descendants at the workman's forge, while the manufacturer's grandchildren were wearing the ermine and the strawberry-leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various 
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								We see the duchess in her carriage, and gaze with much reverence on the strawberry-leaves on the panels, and her grace within; whereas the odds are that that lovely duchess has had, one time or the other, a desperate flirtation with Willis the Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston 
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								"Hoping you are in good health," responded Maria Hobson, making a corner in strawberry-leaves as she just touched the finger-tips. The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest 
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								But, alas! we have no hereditary legislators; and though I feel myself competent to wear the strawberry-leaves, or even to sit upon a throne, I have not been willing to submit to the unsavory contacts of American political life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various 
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								Then the strawberry-leaves dying, which [yield] a most excellent cordial smell. XLVI. Of Gardens 1909 
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								We see the duchess in her carriage, and gaze with much reverence on the strawberry-leaves on the panels, and her grace within; whereas the odds are that that lovely duchess has had, one time or the other, a desperate flirtation with Willis the Conqueror. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902 
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								-- How often has "mustn't pick the strawberry blossom" been quoted to this delusive little white cinquefoil in early spring, when it peeps out among leaves very like strawberry-leaves in the hedge. John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862 
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