All 5 Uses of
sage
in
Main Street
- The thick grass beside the track, coarse and prickly with many burnings, hid canary-yellow buttercups and the mauve petals and woolly sage-green coats of the pasque flowers.†
Chpt 12
- The pale bark of the poplar sticks was mottled with lichens of sage-green and dusty gray; the newly sawed ends were fresh-colored, with the agreeable roughness of a woolen muffler.†
Chpt 16
- Sage?†
Chpt 24 *
- Got PLENTY other spices jus' good as sage for any purp'se whatever!†
Chpt 24
- Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(sage as in: sage advice) profound wisdom; or one known for being wise