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ragweed

[rag-weed] / ˈrægˌwid /


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Fill your thrashing-floor with docks, ragweeds, mugworths, and ply your flail upon them,—that is not the method to obtain sacks of wheat.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

These may be followed, the next year, by ragweeds, then by docks and thistles, with here and there a start of clover and grass; and it all ends in June-grass and dandelions.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

No signs of life were about it except the very luxuriant life in the tall jimsons and ragweeds growing about it and reaching almost to the top of the low doorway, yawning blackly behind them.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.




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