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Definition of Eglantines
1. eglantine [n] - See also: eglantine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eglantines
Literary usage of Eglantines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Birthday Book: With Poetical Selections for Every Day in the Year by Susie Frances Harrison, Seranus (1887)
"... Purple clustered traceries Of the cottage climbing vines ; Scarlet fruited
eglantines ; Maple forests all aflame When thy sharp-tongued legates came, ..."
2. The American Monthly Magazine (1837)
"Our eglantines are our loveliest relations, and I wonder our minstrel Milton,
who is accuracy itself in general, could have fallen into the mistake of ..."
3. The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors by Ezekiel Sanford, William Shenstone, Robert Walsh (1819)
"Sir William saw briars and vines in abundance: the eglantines were not to be
found; but, as he discovered some honeysuckles, ' it is evident,' he says, ..."
4. Girl Impersonations by Stanley Schell (1912)
"EGLANTINE OR eglantines ... forward and holding out eglantines and large letter "£"].
E stands for Eglantine, fragrant and green, They tell of Love of May ..."
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