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Definition of Snapdragons
1. snapdragon [n] - See also: snapdragon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snapdragons
Literary usage of Snapdragons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"Chief Justice Taft moved forward the streets, ringing to the melody of the 5
wreath of pink roses and snapdragons, in shoes on the wet pavement. ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Fig. 1 is an enlarged flower ; 2, a section through the same ; 3, a seed, natural
size and enlarged ; 4, a seedling. snapdragons Natural Order ..."
3. Popular Garden Flowers: Anemones, Asters, Begonias ... [et Al.] by Walter Page Wright (1911)
"... XXXIII ON snapdragons AND SWEET WILLIAMS Two prime favourites of our
great-grandparents, as they are of ourselves. Their very names speak of past ..."
4. The Laws of Fésole: A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and by John Ruskin (1879)
"The day before yesterday, as I was resting in the garden, the declining sunshine
touched just the points of the withered snapdragons on its wall. ..."
5. The Laws of Fésole: A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and by John Ruskin (1886)
"They never had been any thing very brilliant in the way of snapdragons, and were,
when one looked at them close, only wasted and much pitiable ruins of ..."
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