crow's-foot

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Meanwhile, they who act with too jealous respect for their morrow of civilized comfort, reap only indigestion, and crow's-foot traceries for their deluded eye-corners.

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But saddest to see was between two bars, where a fog was of rushes, and flood wood, and wild celery, and dead crow's-foot.

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Trefoil, crow's-foot, clover, mallow, and wild mustard riot, tangling and interweaving.

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There is the crow's-foot violet, which grows in dry places and is a deep purple; also a little purple violet whose name I do not know.

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VI Here, minion, fill the steaming cup that clears The skin I will not have exposed to jeers, And rub this wrinkle vigorously until The maddening crow’s-foot wholly disappears.

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