There was a bed of nothing but mignonette and another of nothing but pansies—borders of double and single daisies and all kinds of littletufty plants she had never seen before.
Witneſs, thou bestAnâna, thou the pride / Of vegetable life, beyond whate’er / The poets imaged in the golden age: / Quick let me strip thee of thytufty coat, / Spread thy ambroſial ſtores, and feaſt withJove!
In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of thistufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
TheSylvans that about the neighbouring vvoods did dvvell, / Both in thetufty Frith and in the moſſy Fell, / Forſook their gloomy Bovvres, and vvandred farre abroad, / Expeld their quiet fears, and place of their abode,[…]
1613,William Browne, “The Fifth Song”, inBritannia’s Pastorals.[The First Booke], London:[…] Geo[rge] Norton,[…],→OCLC,page122:
If you haue ſeene at foot of ſome braue hill, / Tvvo Springs ariſe, and delicately trill, / In gentle chidings through an humble dale, / (VVheretufty Daizies nod at euery gale)[…]
2005,Simon Barnes, “Tufted Duck”, inA Bad Birdwatcher’s Companion … Or A Personal Introduction to Britain’s 50 Most Obvious Birds, London:Short Books,→ISBN,page101:
Buoyant. That's atufty. Well, tufted duck, to be formal, but the name always sounds more like tufty duck, and there is something inspiringly matey about atufty: we are on nickname terms with the bird at first glance.
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