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Lad's love

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Aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe. Synonyms: absinthe, Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, old man.

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... One member alone of his family felt with him that complete and vivid sympathy which is so necessary to the full development of such a nature. When he was fourteen this sister married and left home, but the bond between them was not broken. In some ways it was strengthened by the lad's love for her children; by his grief, scarcely less than her own, at the death of her eldest little girl. Moreover they were brought into close companionship for a considerable time when, after his dismal period of apprenticeship at Rotherhithe—to ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

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... these years, I had fallen in and out of love assiduously. Since the Anabasis of lad's love traverses a monotonous country, where one hill is largely like another, and one meadow a duplicate of the next to the last daffodil, I may with profit dwell upon the green-sickness lightly. It suffices that in the course of these four ...

— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al

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