The prettier name of this one is "butter-and-eggs", for fairly obvious reasons. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Tansy showing up here and there, also butter-and-eggs, added to the usual suspects. From Wordnik.com. [Xenophobia in strange places] Reference
The butter-and-eggs plant, they were well aware, was as free as the clover, or the milk-weed blossoms, or any other of the wild flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales] Reference
They prefer plain, butter-and-eggs people whom they can see and feel comfortable with rather than extraordinary, superior, invisible heroes of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I am always sure when I see bouncing-bet, butter-and-eggs, and tawny lilies growing in a tangle together that in their midst may be found an untrodden door-stone, a fallen chimney, or a filled-in well. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
The sunshine was genial to my chilled frame; through the palings I could see double rows of hyacinths, tulips, and butter-and-eggs, edging the walks, and bushes of lilacs and snowballs almost in bloom, just as they had looked before I went up to the lumber-room. From Wordnik.com. [When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood] Reference
Post-office with the Letter for you, which I had all the while in my breast, and then came home at a decent butter-and-eggs trot, rather gratified than otherwise to observe the loss of the groom's hat, and other difficulties which even he had to struggle with on the back of. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
"The butter-and-eggs in the meadow!". From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales] Reference
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