“The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like ⟳ a zareba, was an irregular ring ⟳ of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.”

“Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.”

“I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have ⟳ once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.”

“one rushing forth out of the thickest weed”

“A wild and wanton pard[…]/ Crouched fawning in the weed.”

“And I predict ⟳ you will laugh ⟳ harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.”

“Lie ⟳ here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.”

“Prince [Don Pedro] Come ⟳ let ⟳ vs hence, and put ⟳ on other weedes, / And then to Leonatoes we will goe. / Claudio And Hymen now with luckier iſſue ſpeeds, / Then this for whom we rendred vp this woe. Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!”

“Shee, in a watchet vveed, with manie a curious waue, / VVhich as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gaue; […]”

“These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide ⟳, whose figure ⟳ had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.”

“In words, like ⟳ weeds, I’ll wrap ⟳ me o’er, ⁠Like ⟳ coarsest clothes against the cold: ⁠But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.”

“His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward ⟳ somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see ⟳.”

“He wore a weed on his hat.”

“[…] he was beat ⟳ and retreated back to his old encampment with his weed on his hat dragging on the ground, with the loss of more than nineteen hundred men; […]”

“O Sir, if we could but see ⟳ the shape ⟳ of our deare Mother England, as poets are wont to give ⟳ a personal form ⟳ to what they please ⟳, how would she appeare, think ⟳ ye, but in a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing from her eyes, to behold so many of her children expos'd at once, and thrust from things of dearest necessity, because their conscience could not assent to things which the Bishops thought indifferent.”

“Poor Girl! put ⟳ on thy stifling widow’s weed, / And ’scape at once from Hope’s accursed bands; […]”

“The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return ⟳ home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.”

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