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Mrs. Adams gives me an account of a flower found in Connecticut, which vegetates when suspended in the air.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

He vegetates as completely as any one I have ever seen or dreamed of.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von

"One vegetates elsewhere, one lives only in Paris," added her husband, "and perhaps a little in London."

From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy

He sleeps, eats, drinks, goes to school, comes home, runs out into the garden, sleeps, eats, drinks again and so on, vegetates like the plants in the sunshine.

From The Son of His Mother by Viebig, Clara

Hereabout, or in near counties, where he has parochial duties, he vegetates slumberously, for twenty years or more.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.