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Nursery rhyme

noun

A tale in rhymed verse for children.

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"Nursery rhyme" Quotes from Famous Books

... without reason that with the ancients a land flowing with milk and honey should mean a land abounding in all good things; and the queen in the nursery rhyme, who lingered in the kitchen to eat "bread and honey" while the "king was in the parlor counting out his money," was doing a very sensible thing. Epaminondas is said to have rarely eaten anything but bread and honey. The Emperor Augustus one day inquired of ...

— Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers • John Burroughs

... half a pint, and a larger size which would hold a pint; packets of flower-seeds with gay pictures on the outside, and only a penny each; the pitchers were only a penny and twopence; there were the dearest little watering-cans too, and fancy handkerchiefs with a nursery rhyme round the border, and funny little books, with roughly done pictures in the brightest of colours, and money-boxes, some like little houses, others representing ...

— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... told him, smiling, "between your cooking and Susan Jenks' is the difference between an epic—and a nursery rhyme. They're both good, but Susan's is ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... tragic signs of poverty and desperation; but it was the horror of her eyes, he told himself, that he should never forget. They were eyes that would haunt his sleep that night like the face of the drowned man in the nursery rhyme. ...

— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow

Words linked to "Nursery rhyme" : tale, narration, story, narrative