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  • They trimmed the house from top to bottom, even twining ground-pine on the stair rail.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • No, -- it is the running ground-pine; and clearing away, with both eager hands, leaves, sticks, moss, and all the fallen

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

  • She decked the pictures with ground-pine, and, in the act of preparing the dishes for supper that Gaston liked best, he found her.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • They cut masses of laurel, and ground-pine, and strung them on twine.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • And so saying, Mère Michaud turned, and swinging high up in the air one end of a long wreath of feathery ground-pine, led off the procession.

    Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

  • They trailed the ground-pine across the ceiling from corner to corner, and about the mantel, hanging from it innumerable tiny red bells fashioned from the red paper.

    This Way to Christmas 1916

  • "There's just one thing that's the matter," said David, as he and Mr. Peter started out with knives and bags to hunt for ground-pine and other Christmas greens.

    This Way to Christmas 1916

  • As though dreaming he were late to church and had forgotten his vestments, Flame's Father reached out nervously and draped a great string of ground-pine stole-like about his neck.

    Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • Just's offering of ground-pine, and Celia's scarlet carnations all about the room, a fire ready laid in the fireplace, and lamps and candles waiting to be lighted on every side, there seemed nothing to be desired.

    The Second Violin 1912

  • Then get some of the moss known as ground-pine, a small piece of glass (the Guide should see that the edges of the glass are well rubbed with a stone, to prevent cutting the fingers), a cigar box, and white paste or putty, as in the Monkey-hunt.

    Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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