Here he came upon evidences of a meal which the rival had made upon wake-robin roots. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
A meal of grubs and peppery wake-robin roots left him happy, but still he rambled on, following his nose and alert for any new adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
"Shall we take up this wake-robin?" asked Ethel Blue. From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Morton's Enterprise] Reference
“I have another one,” said she; and thrusting her hand into Obed's basket, drew out the wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
Fresh green heads of bosky ferns and wake-robin were pushing up through the old mats of last year's foliage. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
A little before the day when the wake-robin shows itself, that the observer might be on hand for the sight, he was born in Roxbury. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
In quaint sage-green draperies, she seemed a flower, with her small vivid face irresistibly reminding Saxon of a springtime wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 17] Reference
At the same time, perhaps a day or two earlier, the white oblong petals of the dwarf trillium, or wake-robin, will gleam in the rich woods. From Wordnik.com. [Some Winter Days in Iowa] Reference
Finally we come to where there is less grass but more dead leaves and leaf mould, and here is the first real herbaceous flower of this spring, the dwarf white trillium, or wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Some Spring Days in Iowa] Reference
The sensitive plant trembles and shrinks at the slightest touch; in certain hours of well-being the wake-robin is warm, the carnation is phosphorescent, the valisnérie descends to the bottom of the waters, to propagate its kind. From Wordnik.com. [Part III, Chapter V of "Uranie"] Reference
"I've bought their stuff for years, because neither Leslie nor her mother ever would tolerate fat carnations and overgrown roses so long as I could find a scrap of arbutus, a violet or a wake-robin from the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Michael O'Halloran] Reference
"wake-robin.". From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
Dwarf wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Nodding wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Vasey’s wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Ill-scented wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Large-flowered wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Sessile-flowered wake-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Others, again, were imaginative or fanciful – as morning-glory, night-shade, flag, loose-strife, wake-robin, simpler's-joy, thrift, speedwell, traveller's-joy, snow-drop winter's pale foundling, wayfaring-tree, eye-bright, shepherd's-purse, pink meaning eye, in Dutch, like the French oeillet; marigold, lady's-smock, – from the white leaves of these flowers blooming in the grass, like bleaching linen; the wall-flower, which loved the shade of knightly banners and pennons, and still clings faithfully to falling ruins; king's-spears, flower-gentle, goldilocks, yellow-golds, the flower de luce, flower of light, which great painters have placed in the hands of saintly personages in many a noble work of art; the sweet-daisy or day's-eye, the "eye of day," as Chaucer has called it. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
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