plant (n.)

plant (v.)

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

John Milton (1608-1674): Lycidas. Line 78.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,

To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 63.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt, Earl Of Chatham (1708-1778): Speech, Jan. 14, 1766.

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,

That creepeth o'er ruins old!

Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,

In his cell so lone and cold.

Creeping where no life is seen,

A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Pickwick Papers. Chap. vi.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

John Milton (1608-1674): Lycidas. Line 78.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,

While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.

Robert Treat Paine (1772-1811): Adams and Liberty.