| 单词 | bilberry |
| 例句 | I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Ahead of them lay the berry-hedges—raspberry, blackberry, bilberry—and the strawberry patch where every August sleepy baby creatures could be seen, their stomachs full after eating the pick of the crop. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When paired with steaming, chewy Icelandic bread and tart bilberry jam, it is the ideal combination. From Iceland to Italy, a Wisconsinite cheesehead's guide to European cheese 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z We ate pine bark bread, sipped on birch sap and ate a dessert with lingonberry, crowberry, bog bilberry and blueberry. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z He hunted moose and deer and picked lingonberries, mushrooms, and bilberries. The Art of Pondering Earth's Distant Future 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Scots pine shin up the very steepest slopes, bilberries blooming in their shadow. Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring. The end of farming? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Q: I developed early-stage macular degeneration some 20 years ago, and completely turned it around by taking bilberry. Vitamin E oil for toenail fungus 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z When Frances Stewart was charged with drunkenness in 1840, the Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser described her as “an old and multitudinous offender, with face as red as scarlet, and nose blue as bilberry”. 'Is that bum trap missing a flesh-bag?': a guide to Australia’s convict slang 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Glints of colour, purple saxifrage, sphagnum moss, the reddening leaves of the bilberry. The place where wolves could soon return - BBC News 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z "Blueberries, bilberries and especially black currants contain high amounts of anthocyanins and help to maintain the health of the cornea and blood vessels in every part of the eye," McDonnell said. Eat Right to Protect Your Sight 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The northern bilberry, for instance, is likely to gain tiny new areas on the coast of Greenland or on Russian Arctic islands this century as the climate warms. In Climate Puzzle for Crops, Anciend Tree Offers Clues 2012-10-19T17:15:07.050Z They were chatting away when a pack of other runners appeared among the distant bilberries, each with a number card on his chest, like Alistair's. Yorkshire, Leeds and the Brownlees are over the Olympic moon 2012-08-07T16:21:33Z There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The local name for the shrub is "bilberry." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z You are a dangerous beast of prey—you live on bilberries and fruit, and now and then you help yourself to a sheep to keep yourself from dying of starvation. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z One of them had but a few days before, met with two bears and their young, among the bilberry bushes, and shot two of them. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Apples, pears, plums and cherries are the principal kinds of fruit cultivated, while the wild red cranberries from the Harz and the black bilberries from the L�neburger Heide form an important article of export. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z I was fishing for trout when a mother moose came up-stream among the bilberry and alder bushes. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z A syrup made of the juice of bilberries, when not over ripe, is cooling and binding.” The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z Blae′berry, Scotch name for the bilberry or whortleberry. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z By a descent that becomes swiftly steeper, the burn falls upon fresh rocks, is led into fresh channels and broken to the right and left where mossy islets stand knee-deep in fern and bilberry. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z This tower, overgrown with brambles, hawthorn, and bilberries, is as old as the mountain; neither the French, Germans, nor Swedes have destroyed it. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z “Let us get up on top of these rocks then,” he suggested, as their walk had brought them to a pile of broken rocks overgrown with rhododendrons and bilberry bushes. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z And do we find in the case of bilberries any less precaution on the part of Nature? Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Three kinds of cakes, eggs, and small pies of preserved bilberries, were set before me at tea; but the bed, though the sheets were clean, had a musty smell of damp straw. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z It's God's own land for the nimble trout, And ferns and waving flowers, The bracken and the bilberry, And the ash the coral dowers. Two Fishers, and Other Poems 2011-04-08T02:00:09.700Z Forest and bilberries again to the hotel on the Greater Winterberg, where we dined on mountain florellen and strawberries and cranberries. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z These girls without baskets such as the bilberry and whortleberry pickers, and raspberry gatherers had to carry. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z Content, however, with the performance of the day, and feeling healthily tired by it, I lay down upon the bilberry bushes and fell asleep. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Here there are shrubs, rhododendrons, junipers, bilberries, and dwarf willows, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide "Faith," said Fin, "beautiful; an' how are you, Oonagh—and how did you sport your figure during my absence, my bilberry?" Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry The enormous piles of preserved mushrooms and bilberries is not to be told; great vats full, whereby much money was wasted. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. The thought of a village girl picking bilberries in a land so scarred by war and rapine produced an effect at once striking and fantastic. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 The juniper bushes were luxuriant, and there were plenty of bilberries and wild strawberries in bloom. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia I was picking bilberries on the mountains and strayed into their land by chance one day. Fairy Tales from the German Forests They stayed no longer to gather bilberries, but pushed on at a steady swinging stride, looking back from time to time at the storm, which seemed to pursue them. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts These were frequently dressed in eight different ways, also the mushrooms in three different ways, and the bilberries in two ways. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. Hint that it is merely the English bilberry or blaeberry, or whortleberry and—but no one dares hint that. Westward with the Prince of Wales "Is this," asked the Angel, whose mouth was already black with bilberries, "the dialect of rural England?" Another Sheaf The poor girl was hungry; for bilberries are not very satisfying and it was supper time; but she crept up the narrow stairs, too much frightened to say a word. Fairy Tales from the German Forests Four brawny labourers were also there; and, near by, each in leash, the three little terriers lay among the bilberries. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain This irritated the Duke still more; and as we had nothing but mushrooms and bilberries to eat, his Princely Grace desired me to think of some means of giving security. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. The hills that cradle these valleys are either covered with fern and bilberries, or oak woods, which are cut for charcoal. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 "Would bilberries serve?" asked his dragoman; "for I see a man gathering them." Another Sheaf A chocolate pudding with cream and sugar and a bilberry jelly stood on the table, also rolls which were thickly buttered and spread with various kinds of fairy sausage purely vegetarian in character. Fairy Tales from the German Forests The woods were soon left behind, and the pathway led ever upwards, first through a tangle of heather and bilberry and gorse; then, higher still, over short, fine, slippery tracts of grass. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life Nor will they recognise bilberries or whortleberries so called; "hurts" is the name. Highways and Byways in Surrey With a pine wood behind us, where bilberries, just ripening among the ferns, covered the ground, we six friends—four Finlanders and two English—made a very happy party. Through Finland in Carts Kunz bade the others ride on, and giving his squire his horse to hold he dismounted, lifted Albrecht down, and began looking for bilberries for him. The True Story Book It was covered with heather-bells and bilberries; they were so large and so sweet; one could mash them with one's foot, so that the heather should be dripping with the red juice. The Sand-Hills of Jutland In 1677 Thoroton writes that so many claims were granted that there would soon not be wood enough left to cover the bilberries! The Dukeries Araminta replied that this one was as black as a bilberry and took fish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 The best plants to search will be the mountain ash, bilberry, honeysuckle, and bramble, given in their order of merit. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Perhaps the roast deer and bilberries had transported my astral self to the deck of a P. and O. liner at Colombo, where the passengers were warmly congratulating me on a successful voyage across Asia. From Paris to New York by Land In summer the Chukches eat cloud-berries, red bilberries, and other berries, which are said to be found in great abundance in the interior of the country. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II My road wound up and up, the heather and bilberry on either hand.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts The report he gave me was “Horrid”; so I contented myself with the little bilberries and cranberries we came upon from time to time. To The West A sweet bilberry also abounds in some parts of the country. Three Boys in the Wild North Land And now, with feelings which are not to be told, must she give Sara to drink from the muddy water, in which, however, to make it more refreshing, she bruised some bilberries. The Home They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk. The Ten Books on Architecture A bilberry thicket straggled down to the opposite bank of the stream on both sides of the road. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North He told the Yellow Rose he had been gathering bilberries. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Is she disposed to excuse the wretched petrified condition of the bilberry preserve, in consideration of the intent of the donor? Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle In summer, gather basketfuls of strawberries, bilberries, and raspberries; carry them to the houses: they will yield money. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 They fed on roots and bilberries, and picked fish-bones out of the ospreys' nests. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 From the shadows of the bilberry bushes two stooping figures rushed at him. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North Down on the shore, fifty yards below, a slight swaying of the bilberry bushes catches your eye. Ways of Wood Folk The first season of bloom is in early June, when the chalices or the cloud-berry and the nodding plumes of the cottongrass spring from an emerald carpet of bilberry and ling. Tales of the Ridings They were at the top of a tableland, and before them spread the Common, a brown sea of last year's heather and bilberry, with gorse bushes flaming here and there like golden fires. The Luckiest Girl in the School He said the Canadians have no fruit but a very inferior raspberry, and that they actually sell bilberries in the shops. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life It was now the time of the yearly gathering of bilberries on the hills; and tribes of women and children ascended to the tableland from all the villages round. Fern's Hollow Yes, she will inherit the heather and the bilberries. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I don't care a bilberry for either her or her innocence. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Elizabeth, in delight, pointed to the beds of wild strawberries crimsoning the slopes, intermingled with stretches of bilberry, and streaks of blue and purple asters. Lady Merton, Colonist Then fell my heart, and the phantoms nodded; flinging upon me bilberries, like rose pearls, which bruised against my skin, left stains. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I It was the pleasantest work of the year; and Martha, who had never missed the bilberry season since she could remember, was not likely to miss it now. Fern's Hollow They had bought the buckle together over at the storekeeper's on the Saturday, and mother had sold bilberries, and capercailzies, and three pounds of wool. Weird Tales from Northern Seas Helena fell back on the bilberry stalk, to gain time. Helena It could not ultimately matter a bilberry whether his marriage was public or private. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories If the by-laws of this town were worth a bilberry," he was saying, "about a thousand so-called houses would have to come down to-morrow. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Martha was wonderfully successful this year, and gained more money by selling her bilberries than she thought necessary to show to Stephen; though, on his part, he always brought her every penny of his wages. Fern's Hollow The higher we ascend, so much the shorter and more dwarflike do the fir-trees become, shrinking up, as it were, within themselves, until finally only whortleberries, bilberries, and mountain herbs remain. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes She began to eat some unripe bilberries which she had gathered from the bank beside her, and they made little blue stains on her white teeth. Helena I lived on unthreshed wheat and rye, apples, blackberries, bilberries, carrots, turnips and even raw potatoes. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War Their food consists of the tender shoots of pines, the seeds of plants, the berries of the arbutus and bilberry, the buds of the birch and alder, the buds of the heather, leaves, and grain. The Illustrated London Reading Book In these woods there are small shrubs grow in great abundance, which produce black fruit, known by the name of bilberries, of which during some years the poor people make a plentiful harvest.— A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington And how pines like bilberry bushes at their feet and sometimes little oaks—all trees making a clear, deliberate choice, and holding firmly to it? The Man Whom the Trees Loved There creep the various species of heath-berries, cranberries, bilberries, &c., furnishing the poor with a source of profit, and the rich of luxury. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 At last in a green space of bilberry and mossy rock, with the pines behind him, and the chain of the Dolomites, sun-bathed, in front, he opened and read his "ward's" first letter to him. Delia Blanchflower Various berries, such as the cranberry, the bilberry, together with the tender shoots of heath, constitute the food of this species. The Illustrated London Reading Book She lived near Mrs. Gregson's cottage, and was one of the little troop whom I had seen pass the manse on their way to gather bilberries. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood The wild fig-tree grows here, and the huge boulders are tapestried with box and bilberry. The Roof of France The mountain-flanks are still bushy and tufty with broom, gorse, and furze; with myrtle, bilberry and whortleberry; with laurels; with heaths 20 feet high, and with the imported pine. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I The huckle-berries were ripening too, and soon afforded them a never-failing source of food; there were also an abundance of bilberries, the sweet rich berries of which proved a great treat, besides being very nourishing. Canadian Crusoes It was but a shallow New England brook, this river, meandering through cranberry bogs, with alders and bilberry bushes on either side. Together It was amongst their small stems that the coveted bilberries grew, in company with cranberries and crowberries, and dwarf junipers. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood Such browns and pinks among the withering ling; such gleaming greens among the bilberry leaf; such reds among the turning ferns; such fiery touches on the mountain ashes overhanging the Red Brook! The History of David Grieve Pungent, deep-sunken, lichen- covered springs of reddish water were hidden amidst undergrowth in little glades, couched in layers of turf bordered by red bilberries and huckleberries. Tales of the Wilderness Drops of blood, large like bilberries, splattered into the air, which had already quenched its thirst on the evening coolness, on the odour of the foliage and the aroma of artificial scents. The Created Legend Your father, the elderberry, Was not such a gooseberry As to send in his bilberry Before it was dewberry. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Adam went on— "And if wicked boys will break down the trees—" "I only pulled the bilberries," interposed Jamie, in a whine which went off in a howl. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood David instinctively caught hold of him, and led him to a corner close by in the ruined walls, where the heather and bilberry grew thick up to the stones. The History of David Grieve It should be blue, such a colour as might result from a diet of bilberries. Dogs and All about Them Their food consists of the tops of birch and heath, except when the mountain berries are ripe, at which period they eagerly and even voraciously pick the bilberries and cranberries from the bushes. The Book of Household Management The huckleberries were ripening too, and soon afforded them a never-failing source of food; there was also an abundance of bilberries, the sweet fruit of which proved a great treat, besides being very nourishing. Lost in the Backwoods In summer the hill was of course the haunt of children gathering its bilberries. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood After that, all trace of the road disappeared; they walked on the bare rock through shrubs and bilberry bushes. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales The blueberry or huckleberry, or, as we call it in Ireland, the bilberry, or frohen, grows wild in the northerly states, and is much sought after in the market. Three Acres and Liberty Can you—' she sniffed, and sniffed at the bottle—'can you smell bilberries? Women in Love There is also plenty of bilberries or blueberries, together with ground-nuts and artichokes, which grow under ground. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 Not very far, about a mile or so from our house, rose a certain hill famed in the country round for its store of bilberries. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood Gallants have been plenty as bilberries in August. The Golden Dog The visitors came upon Fomishka and Fimishka at the very minute when they had awakened from their afternoon nap and were drinking bilberry wine. Virgin Soil I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread. Jane Eyre The heath was full of bilberries and whimberries; but they were only in flower yet, for it was June. The Water-Babies I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries. Jane Eyre |
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