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Definition of Cowslips
1. cowslip [n] - See also: cowslip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowslips
Literary usage of Cowslips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"cowslips. A country girl, the other day, expressed her astonishment that ladies
could see anything to admire in " cowslips." Now, here was an instance of ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1885)
"And now, what accounts for the difference between primroses and cowslips 1 Unlike
as these two flowers are in external appearance, they are nevertheless so ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"How often would she flowers twine, How often garlands make Of cowslips and of
columbine, And all for Corin's sake!' It is obvious that we have here the work ..."
4. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"71 What matters it? next year he will return, And we shall have him in the sweet
Where thick the cowslips grew, and far spring-days, With whitening hedges, ..."
5. Through the Year with Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Wendell Gleason (1917)
"It is the cowslips' forward green. Look narrowly, explore the warmest nooks; here
are buds larger yet, showing more yellow, and yonder see two full-blown ..."
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