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Definition of Berryless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Berryless
Literary usage of Berryless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Old Woman's Outlook in a Hampshire Village by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1896)
"Holly, even in berryless years, is to my mind better alone than with any sham
imitations of berries, though a scarlet tie for the sprays may be effective ..."
2. Our Country Home: How We Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (1908)
"... which was sent to us from Washington and looks exactly like a berryless holly.
On the brick floor are some dull Chinese bowls of the pink impatiens ..."
3. Stray Leaves from a Border Garden by Mary Pamela (Ellis) Milne-Home (1901)
"On each berryless bough that sadly mocks Their hungry souls—birds appear in flocks.
Love stood on the tips of his small bare toes Hanging strings of red ..."
4. From a Middlesex Garden: A Book of Garden Thoughts by Alfred H. Hyatt (1901)
"'T~VHE course of the grey January river which winds near •*• to the garden is
through many meadows, past many copses, now leafless and almost berryless. ..."
5. Ab-o'th'-Yates Dictionary; Or, Walmsley Fowt Skoomester: Put T'gether by Th by Benjamin Brierley (1881)
"... and berryless landmark, Once boyhood's most privileged dower. If you try these
bleak hurdles to get o'er, That your feet may again feel the grass, ..."
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