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    primrose


    1. men of this land put Primrose, Pretty


    2. Clumps of primrose are already bursting through the early grass heads as cows lay down in fields under a changing sky


    3. Had Truman allowed himself to be led astray again? But then, who was he to talk? Hadn’t he also been led along a primrose path of ideology, except in the opposite direction?


    4. George left the estate in Primrose hill, walking alone as he waited for the sun to rise


    5. “Like it was going to be the primrose path,” Jermaine replied


    6. The hydra exhaled a barrage of fireballs that enveloped the purple bird in a primrose cloud as it careened toward the sea


    7. Some studies have demonstrated that supplementation with evening primrose oil or black currant oil can


    8. implies that 3,000-6,000 mg of evening primrose oil would be required to yield this amount of pure GLA, as evening


    9. So, I spent the balance of the 1969 football season at Germiston Primrose effectively


    10. Primrose, work after lectures at the Stock Exchange and had arrived at res too late

    11. This is obviously noticed in our fact: anyone that adopts the primrose path keeps heavyhearted and troubled whatever money, glory or authority they may gain, and they


    12. in theory, be a factor in PMS and because evening primrose oil (EPO) contains significant amounts of GLA, researchers have studied EPO as a potential way to reduce


    13. Yet when Man came and was given the freedom of choice, he deviated from the path which leads to his happiness and gain, and followed ‘the primrose path’, leading a life of ease and pleasure, and immersing himself in animalistic instincts


    14. But if man gives free rein to his spirit and follows the primrose path, that is, living a life of nothing but ease and pleasure, so that he fails to make use of his intellectual gifts and the power of his thought, he will become entirely embroiled in the lowly life, drinking from its quagmire and guzzling from its cup of mean, carnal desires


    15. Accordingly she behaved as little like a primrose as possible, sitting in stony silence while he skirmished in the passage with Mrs


    16. with the evening primrose blended


    17. gently and lightly on the wind and laid her on the primrose duvet


    18. It is said that evening primrose also contains chemicals which help to


    19. The truth is that without dumb luck, a lot of dim-witted people would be up Shit Creek instead of sailing down life’s Primrose Path


    20. Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,

    21. Under the arch of the Opera House large faces and lean ones, the powdered and the hairy, all alike were red in the sunset; and, quickened by the great hanging lamps with their repressed primrose lights, by the tramp, and the scarlet, and the pompous ceremony, some ladies looked for a moment into steaming bedrooms near by, where women with loose hair leaned out of windows, where girls--where children--(the long mirrors held the ladies suspended) but one must follow; one must not block the way


    22. I was comfortably revelling in the spring fragrance around, and the beautiful soft blue overhead, when my young lady, who had run down near the gate to procure some primrose roots for a border, returned only half laden, and informed us that Mr


    23. I choose my mood, she told herself as she stood in the kitchen, tossing back evening primrose capsules like Valium


    24. A primrose doublet, fortune's knave, smiled on my fear


    25. Lawksamercy, doctor, cried the young blood in the primrose vest, feigning a womanish simper and with immodest squirmings of his body, how you do tease a body! Drat the man! Bless me, I'm all of a wibbly wobbly


    26. The chair of the resident indeed stood vacant before the hearth but on either flank of it the figure of Bannon in explorer's kit of tweed shorts and salted cowhide brogues contrasted sharply with the primrose elegance and townbred manners of Malachi Roland St John Mulligan


    27. The early sunshine glowed on the delicate primrose, pale pink, pale blue fronts of the big houses with all their gates shut yet, and no face behind the iron bars of the windows


    28. And there are Olivia and Sophia Primrose, and Corinne—they may be said to have fallen in love with new men


    29. And at the last race in Primrose Park, I'm betting my found money, everything I've got—on—Oscar Wilde!!"


    30. And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre

    31. The ninth was to be blue if she had given birth to a boy, primrose yellow if it had been a girl


    32. These include limes or basswoods, roses, hops, elder, primrose and camomile


    33. That night fell the seventh star, falling upon Primrose Hill


    34. Wondering still more at all that I had seen, I pushed on towards Primrose Hill


    35. I missed my way among the streets, and presently saw down a long avenue, in the half-light of the early dawn, the curve of Primrose Hill


    36. At the sound of a cawing overhead I looked up at the huge fighting-machine that would fight no more for ever, at the tattered red shreds of flesh that dripped down upon the overturned seats on the summit of Primrose Hill


    37. And strange, too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did but a day before writing this last chapter, to see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the sight-seers about the Martian machine that stands there still, to hear the tumult of playing children, and to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear-cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day


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    Synonyms for "primrose"

    primrose primula

    "primrose" definitions

    any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads