Definitions
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- noun Woodbine.
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- noun Obsolete form of
woodbine .
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Examples
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‘We shall hardly,’ said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle — ‘we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.’
Waverley 2004
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'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle -- 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.'
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle -- 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.'
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle -- 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley, when they had been viewing the castle, -- 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, PARETARIA, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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