The Herb of the FieldMacmillan, 1887 - 311 páginas |
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... grows to a capsule , like a bag , or rather a purse . You may have seen purses divided into compartments for gold ... grow wild , and very proud of them they are , for it is not often that they are so found ; indeed , some people ...
... grows to a capsule , like a bag , or rather a purse . You may have seen purses divided into compartments for gold ... grow wild , and very proud of them they are , for it is not often that they are so found ; indeed , some people ...
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... grow longer and more leafy , and the germs harden into outer shells , in which there grow at length the white sweet kernels . Each of these kernels is , as you remember , apt to break into two equal parts when the nut is cracked , and ...
... grow longer and more leafy , and the germs harden into outer shells , in which there grow at length the white sweet kernels . Each of these kernels is , as you remember , apt to break into two equal parts when the nut is cracked , and ...
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... grow into fresh hazel bushes , and perhaps it is for this reason that the bush throws up shoots from the root , which grow up into stems in time . And how many things the branches are useful for ! What would green peas and scarlet ...
... grow into fresh hazel bushes , and perhaps it is for this reason that the bush throws up shoots from the root , which grow up into stems in time . And how many things the branches are useful for ! What would green peas and scarlet ...
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... grow into fresh hazel bushes , and perhaps it is for this reason that the bush throws up shoots from the root , which grow up into stems in time . And how many things the branches are useful for ! What would green peas and scarlet ...
... grow into fresh hazel bushes , and perhaps it is for this reason that the bush throws up shoots from the root , which grow up into stems in time . And how many things the branches are useful for ! What would green peas and scarlet ...
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... grow so thick together that they seem like hair . He has an endless variety of beautiful dresses : sometimes he appears in rich scarlet , sometimes in crimson or purple , and sometimes in quite a ladylike robe of white , trimmed with ...
... grow so thick together that they seem like hair . He has an endless variety of beautiful dresses : sometimes he appears in rich scarlet , sometimes in crimson or purple , and sometimes in quite a ladylike robe of white , trimmed with ...
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Términos y frases comunes
anthers apple autumn bearing beautiful bells bend berries blue blue-bell bogs bracts branches bright brought brown buds bulrush Butterwort called calyx catkins CHAPTER cleft clusters colour corolla cotton cowslip creeping crimson curious cymes daresay dark deep deep purple delicate England English Figwort five petals five stamens fleshy fleur-de-lys four fruit gardens gathered germ grass grown grows wild Guelder rose handsome hanging hard head hedge herbs John's-wort juice kind leaf lilac lily look lovely nectaries never nightshade nosegay orange orchis pale perhaps petals pink pistil plant pollen potatoes pretty purple root rose round scarlet seed seed-vessel sepals shape sheath side silicle slender soft sometimes sort spikes spread spring spurge stalk stamens stem stigma sweet swelling tall teazel thick thing tree TRIBE tuft twisted viper's bugloss white blossoms white flowers whole wood yellow yellow rattle
Pasajes populares
Página 49 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Página 171 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Página 170 - A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous...
Página 45 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it. Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. 'Do the verses he sings...
Página 22 - Two from our birthday ever beards have worn, On other two none ever have appeared, While the fifth brother wears but half a beard.
Página 169 - We have ploughed, we have sowed, We have reaped, we have mowed We have brought home every load, Hip, hip, hip, Harvest home ! and thus, sir, the whole assembly shout
Página 155 - Indeed it has hardly been known in this country for more than a hundred years, and is still considered as one of the rarest of fruits.
Página 137 - A mushroom their table, and on it was laid A water-dock leaf, which a table-cloth made ; The viands were various, to each of their taste, And the Bee brought his honey to crown the repast. There, close on his haunches, so solemn and wise...
Página 85 - Peak of Teneriffe, which I should guess to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. The best oranges for eating that we get come from St. Michael's, a little island of the Azores, but there are many others imported from Spain and Portugal. The red-juiced blood oranges grow in Malta, and the delicious, fragrant little Mandarin orange is chiefly grown at Tangier. To all these places they were first brought in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries from China, their original birthplace.