| 单词 | humble plant |
| 例句 | In her more than 350 references to flowers, the rose is most frequent, but Dickinson was also fond of humble plants like dandelions, clover and daisies. The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z They were the exquisite blooms of the jimson weed, that humble plant which grows undisturbed in every country barn lot in Kentucky. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The humble plants and flowers: grasses, mosses, ferns, and water plants. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Though it be but an humble plant scarce an inch in height, yet it maketh an ointment very precious for to cure dimness of sight. The Manor House School These hills, all unconscious of the past, form a scene of silent and mournful beauty, with fragments of temples protruding through their soil, and humble plants and lowly weeds covering their surface. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge It is greatly to be regretted that the uses of these humble plants, which seem to fall lower than the dignity of the title "vegetable," should be so little understood by intelligent American housewives. Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses Finally the first frosts came, and the waiting forest shook out its scarlet and crimson and golden banners, and many water-grasses and weeds took on quite bright colors, for such humble plants. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear It is a humble plant, but fragrant; where it grows abundantly the miasma of the bog is neutralized by its balsamic odors and antiseptic qualities, disease is displaced and health established. Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Behold the humble plants of our gardens, which in the first ages of the world were mighty trees. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth It astonishes you to see between politics and enology, between the great historical events and the lot of a humble plant, so close a bond. Characters and events of Roman History Yet these humble plants possess the power of rendering even unpalatable and insipid dishes piquant and appetizing, and this, too, at a surprisingly low cost. Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses Even that humble plant, the cabbage, has been invested with some mystery. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine I had always thought of the hawthorn as a pretty shrub, growing in hedges; as big as a currant bush or a barberry bush, or some humble plant of that character. Our Hundred Days in Europe Ferments are sometimes lifeless chemical products found in living bodies; but in other cases they are humble plants. An Introduction to Chemical Science But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant. The Golden Bough Compared with the long past of this humble plant, all the history of civilized men is but an episode. Evolution and Ethics Perhaps this economical pleasure was much enhanced by a picture in my memory, whose faded colors the odor of this humble plant never failed to restore. Urban Sketches Hence descend aerial roots, clasping and ultimately destroying the supporting tree, which is in time entirely replaced by the humble plant which was at first dependent upon it. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 |
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