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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gillyflower? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| Dianthus are known by numerous other names, including carnation, clove pink, cottage pink, gillyflower and pinks. |
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| The name gillyflower is also used for the Virginia stock, the wallflower, and for the carnation of the pink family. |
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| However, the gillyflower of Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare was the carnation. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| I cannot talk to you any more, my gillyflower, though I am leaving volumes unsaid. |
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| Even you couldn't cut through 'ropes of steel,' my gillyflower. |
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| Popular in Victorian flower beds, many have colloquial names, like gillyflower, pronounced jilliver. |
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| Most of the remedies the mountebanks offered were herbal, including marsh mallow, balsam, gillyflower, and blueberries. |
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