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How to amuse yourself and others. The American girl's handy book (1887)

Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 395

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374 Winter. the sunflower (pure and lofty thoughts), freely translated, mightbe read : Aspirations after knowledge help to illumine the darkness of ignorancewith pure and loftythoughts. Aspirations(lily) after knowledge (gold)help (chevron) to illumine(the gold chevron and lilybrighten up the… … Fig. 282. an appropriate flower hadbest be used, which they may vary ad infinitum. A simpleyet pretty shield can be made by placing a four-leaved clover,symbolical of good-luck, on a shield of one color, silver, mean-ing purity, innocence, showing that innocence, combined withthe language of the…

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