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Out of sight of Mrs. Strawberry, I veer toward Mr. Reilly’s house, leaping mullens and thistles growing in the fallow field.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The flower beds were choaked with the low running bramble and tangling five finger; tall, rank rushes, mullens and daisies, had usurped the empire of the kitchen garden.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton
A small switch was in one hand, and she flipped it at the new leaves of the aspens and the broad-leafed mullens beside the road.
From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto
The flower beds were choaked with the low running bramble and tangling five-finger; tall, rank rushes, mullens and daisies, had usurped the empire of the kitchen garden.
From Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father by Mitchell, I. (Isaac)
Other, of the harmless kinds, are sweetness and tranquillity itself, as the white mullens, or lady’s fox-gloves, so good for fomentations.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
