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Definition of Snowdrops
1. snowdrop [n] - See also: snowdrop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowdrops
Literary usage of Snowdrops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"All the snowdrops are hardy, and may be naturalised, grown on the rock- garden
... As cut flowers, snowdrops are most attractive, but to cull the flowers in ..."
2. Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind by Mathilde Blind (1900)
"SNOW OE snowdrops? Is it snow or snowdrops' shimmer Whitens thus the bladed grass,
With a faint aerial glimmer,— Spring or winter, which did pass ? ..."
3. The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900 by Thomas Dixon (1902)
"... CHAPTER XII RED snowdrops THE spirit of anarchy was in the tainted air.
The bonds that held society were loosened. Government threatened to become ..."
4. Life of John Boyle O'Reilly by James Jeffrey Roche, Mary Murphy O'Reilly (1891)
"WITHERED snowdrops. came in the early spring-days, - With the first refreshing
showers And I watched the growing beauty Of the little drooping flowers. ..."
5. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1884)
"THE snowdrops. The best beloved of spring, O pretty, pretty snowdrops, Thy praise
alone I'd sing. Would I possessed a thousand reeds, You seem so joyful ..."
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