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n. - A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived.

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  • To maintain it in its vestal candor and proud sincerity is not always an easy task in a land where every careless student and idle nobleman is eager to tumble it with his...
  • Do you think that maidens 'eyes are no longer touched with the juice of love-in-idleness!
  • Maidens call it love-in-idleness, 58. caught by glare, like moths, 540. fair are commonly fortunate, 33. smiles of other, 677. withering on the stalk, 477.
  • "It would serve you right," said she, truculently, "if some one were to rub your eyes with love-in-idleness, to make you dote upon the next live creature that you see."
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