Bitter as spurge was that old story of hers now, and bitterer still the only moral lesson it now appeared to her to have.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
By-and-by, the path emerging from the wood shelved along a green hillside, where bracken and golden spurge clothed the little hollows, while wild wall-flower, Jacob's Ladder, and a large purple cranes-bill brightened the slopes where happy cattle, but lately released from their winter's imprisonment, were feeding greedily on the young green grass.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
The thrift, sea lavender, rocket, sea campion, and maritime spurge did not descend so low as this.
"Waiting for Daylight"
Henry Major Tomlinson