Buds
[bʌdz]
Examples
- The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The buds from which the plant men blossomed resembled large nuts about a foot in diameter, divided by double partition walls into four sections. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was almost crying, and scattered the buds about by dozens. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I am no oracle to give answers, she replied, carefully selecting some buds. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I complied, in a very uncomfortable state, and with a warm shooting all over me, as if my apprehensions were breaking out into buds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- With plants which are temporarily propagated by cuttings, buds, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And she remained for some moments looking only at the small buds out of which the red flickers of the stigma issued. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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