Lexicographical Neighbors of Marybuds
Literary usage of Marybuds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1916)
"... Faint silvery tinkles, whispering fairy laughter, Chiming of marybuds upon
the breathless vales. Someone is calling from the land of mortals, ..."
2. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"My thought is hard and cold; The soil is worn and old: What if marybuds should
rise and turn the earth to gold ? Ill I who had sought God blindly in the ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"MAY-BLOBS, sb. marsh marigolds, marybuds. ME, pr. I occasionally hear the old
classical phrases, spoken, however, deliberately, and not as one word : "Me ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... shrine of S. James, the pilgrim saint of the scallop shell badge ; the May
day doll, once the Blessed Virgin, with her marybuds and mangolds around her, ..."
5. The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1910)
"O brave marsh marybuds, rich and yellow, Give me your money to hold! O columbine,
open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ? ..."
6. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"... the Trustees expect to have some 200000 individual plants—including, of course,
the crocuses, 'bold oxlips,' 'nodding violets,' 'winking marybuds,' ..."
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