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单词 carnation
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Examples from literature
  • A curious kind of wild flower, a pink and fragrant carnation, blooms there profusely all summer long.
  • A lady laid a letter and two white carnations on your writing-table.
  • How fair carnation and wallflower the borders of the garden line!
  • She brought a pot of red carnations.
  • The carnations were quite fresh, and had evidently not been plucked more than an hour.

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carnation
But hostile journalists insisted that the greencarnation, like the sunflower and lily, was just the latest fashion.
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Using either keyboard or voice, users can say things like make the sky a deeper blue or make the backgroundcarnationpink, and the software makes the appropriate changes.
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It even described the redcarnationhe had in his buttonhole.
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They might have been talking aboutcarnationgrowing.
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Dutiable imports of carnations in 1958 amounted to 818,000 1b.
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The impact of these increases was reflected in the trend in the glasshouse acreage under carnations in this country which, after rising steadily since 1954.
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My advice is that imports are commanding a higher price than home-produced carnations.
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Carnationimports have been much higher over the past winter than last year, but they were generally of a quality commanding a premium price.
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Of course, that damaged the carnations and made them wholly unsaleable.
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Would not the appearance of the uniform in question be relieved by the wearing of acarnation?
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Similar figures can be given for imports of carnations, chrysanthemums, roses and other cut flowers.
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It ranged from a freecarnationto two packets for the price of one.
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Under that glass are grown tomatoes, cucumbers, roses and carnations.
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Twenty acres are devoted to tomatoes and cucumbers and the remainder is concentrated on cut flowers, particularly roses, carnations and chrysanthemums.
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They can easily be identified, because most special branch officers have large moustaches and wear carnations.
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