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Definition of Buttercups

1. buttercup [n] - See also: buttercup

Literary usage of Buttercups

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"THE GREEN MOSSY BANKS WHERE THE buttercups GREW O, my thoughts are away where my infancy flew, Near the green mossy bank where the buttercups grew, ..."

2. Days and Deeds: A Book of Verse for Children's Reading and Speaking by Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson (1906)
"Coming, ere the spring-time, To tell of sunny hours. While the trees are leafless, While the fields are bare, buttercups and daisies Spring up everywhere. ..."

3. Lincoln Literary Collection, Designed for School-room and Family Circle by John Piersol McCaskey, A. Lincoln (1897)
"Heigh-ho ! daisies and buttercups, Mother shall thread them a daisy chain, Sing them a song of the pretty hedge-sparrow Heigh-ho ! daisies and buttercups, ..."

4. Mother-song and Child-song by Charlotte Brewster Jordan (1898)
"buttercups AND DAISIES. buttercups and Daisies, Oh! the pretty flowers ! ... While the fields are bare, buttercups and Daisies Spring up everywhere. ..."

5. Fifth Reader by Charles Maurice Stebbins (1913)
"LH Ba buttercups AND DAISIES buttercups and daisies, Oh, ... While the trees are leafless, While the fields are bare, buttercups and daisies Spring up here ..."

6. American Poems, 1776-1900: With Notes and Biographies by Augustus While Long (1905)
"ON SOME buttercups A LITTLE way below her chin, 25 Caught in her bosom's snowy hem, Some buttercups are fastened in, — Ah, how I envy them! ..."

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