lords and ladies

Example Sentences

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Beneath the thorn bushes came up lords-and-ladies; violets in tufts peeped out along the paths, and the meadows were strewn with primroses.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle

Orchis-harlequins, cuckoo-plants, wild arums, more properly lords-and-ladies, were coming, and coming—slowly; for had they not a long way to come, from the valley of the shadow of death into the land of life?

From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George