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Definition of Footsteps-of-spring
1. Noun. Sanicle of northwestern United States and British Columbia having yellow flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footsteps-of-spring
Literary usage of Footsteps-of-spring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"How silent are the footsteps of spring! There, too, where there is a fraction of
the meadow, two rods over, quite bare under the bank, in this warm recess ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"Hills were blue with ceanothus when we started and we feasted that day on cherries
and strawberries. We traced the footsteps of spring and feasted on ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1827)
"Dark Winter has come with his pitiful face, The wind rushes wildly along, No
longer the footsteps of Spring can we trace, Whilst the meadows we wander among ..."
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