pulley

Example Sentences

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And no gardener ever struggled with "pusley" and burdock as we must struggle with the evil crop, heredity-sown.

From Rosemary and Rue by Amber

Perhaps its close relation to the "pusley," most hated of weeds, makes us eye it askance.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Now I know what people mean when they say ‘meaner than pusley.’

From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

He would feed pigs; pulled "pusley" out of the garden for them "and them pigs loved it mighty well".

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by Work Projects Administration

You had better have the soil analyzed before you buy: if there is "pusley " in it, let it alone.

From The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Warner, Charles Dudley