whiteweed

The tall green grass is waving in the fields as the wind goes over, and there is a fragrance of whiteweed and ripe strawberries and clover blowing through the sunshiny barns, with their lean sides and their festoons of brown, dusty cobwebs; dull, comfortable creatures they appear to imaginative eyes, waiting hungrily for their yearly meal.

The White Rose Road 1995

It seemed as if that crop of figures, like the innumerable florets of the whiteweed, now overspreading your paternal farm, were exhausting the last vitality from a shallow soil.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

The whiteweed and clover sent forth an agreeable perfume.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

She turned off the main road, crept through uncle Josh Woodman's bars, waved away Mrs. Carter's cows, trod the short grass of the pasture, with its well-worn path running through gardens of buttercups and whiteweed, and groves of ivory leaves and sweet fern.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

Caleb the first had been the "cuss" of his fellow farmers, because in coming from Scarboro to join the Dalton Righters he had brought whiteweed with the bundle of hay for his cattle when he was clearing the land.

Ladies-In-Waiting Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Here the whiteweed is already budding, and there are pleasant pastures dotted with rocks and fringed with spruce and fir; stretches of woodland, too, where the road is lined with giant pines and you lift your face gratefully to catch the cool balsam breath of the forest.

Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

She turned off the main road, crept through Joshua Woodman's bars, waved away Mrs. Carter's cows, trod the short grass of the pasture, with its well-worn path running through gardens of buttercups and whiteweed, and groves of boxberry leaves and sweet fern.

The Flag-Raising Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven.

The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

If he had ever trod his ancestral acres either for pleasure or profit he might in time have "stomped out" the whiteweed, so the neighbors said, for he had the family foot, the size of an anvil; but he much preferred a sedentary life, and the whiteweed went on seeding itself from year to year.

Ladies-In-Waiting Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

He guessed she couldn't bear to have his everlastin 'whiteweed seedin' itself into her hayfield, an 'the only way she could stop it was to marry him an' weed it out.

Ladies-In-Waiting Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889