| 单词 | ragwort |
| 例句 | We start to cut across the parking lot toward our ragwort stalks when a guy about our age touches my arm, warm fingers closing just above my wrist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And so we walk through the woods, ragwort steeds following. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Vivi picks stalks of ragwort that grow near the water troughs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She throws down two more stalks, and moments later three ragwort ponies snort the air and snuffle at the ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It’s not as if I have a boat to take her across the water; all I have are Vivi’s ragwort steeds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then Jeanne returned to the forest and the greyhound—no time to show the dog to her parents now—and knelt down in the thick foliage, pushing ragwort away from her bare arms. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings, through which nothing but the ragwort would grow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When I dismount from my ragwort steed, I head to the palace. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Woolly ragwort all around, Woolly ragwort on the ground, Woolly ragwort grows and grows, Woolly ragwort in your nose." Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z I climb onto my ragwort steed and wrap my hands around the creature’s neck. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A year after the deer were excluded, drifts of golden ragwort appeared in spring, followed by blue mistflower in late summer. In deer territory, good fences make good gardens 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Renoir picks a bunch of camomile, ragwort and wild parsley to evoke the hazy summer fields round Fontainebleau, stuffing them into a homely jug to make the rustic point. Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dal?, Magritte, Mir? and the Surrealists 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z In Europe, common ragwort, a pretty cluster of yellow daisies, is toxic to livestock. Sunflowers: The garden’s late-summer stars 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z An impenetrable tangle of tansy ragwort, a noxious weed toxic to people and livestock, crowds the fence line. 'Conservation grazing' uses cattle to preserve species and landscapes 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z By 2008, Knepp was suffused by weeds such as ragwort, whose vivid yellow flowers are great for pollinators but can kill livestock in the rare event that they are eaten in large amounts. The end of farming? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z They’ll prioritize toxic weeds like poison hemlock or tansy ragwort, a plant best known for poisoning horses, for removal. Noxious weeds? Now there’s an App for that in King County 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z “It was a very ragged and worn individual found feeding on ragwort in the grassy edge of an arable field.” Rare butterfly spotted in Scotland for the first time since 1884 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Wild pigs and red deer run rampant through ragwort, thistles and other weeds. 'It is strange to see the British struggling with the beaver': why is rewilding so controversial? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Along with members of the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, which owns some adjacent land, Hamman and her colleagues plan to burn some of Noyes’ pastures later this year to help control tansy ragwort. 'Conservation grazing' uses cattle to preserve species and landscapes 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?” The end of farming? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Some wild plants, such as wood calamint and fen ragwort, are now found naturally only on road verges. Road verges 'last refuge' for plants - conservation charity - BBC News 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z He added that the plight of the critically endangered fen ragwort was “particularly striking”. UK's rarest plants are at risk of extinction, charity warns 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z His stance on ragwort – a plant often sprayed with herbicides by local authorities because of its reputation for killing horses and grazing animals – may also annoy environmentalists. ‘Make young unemployed pull up ragwort for benefits,’ says Lord Tebbit 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z We were clearing ragwort from an area of grazing marsh when I noticed, looking as its underside, what I thought was just a large spider. Wasp spider discovered on reserve 2013-09-17T13:43:29Z The San Francisco Peaks groundsel, an ankle-high plant with tiny, yellow flowers that is also known as ragwort, grows only on the San Francisco Peaks. Green Blog: Snow, Sewage and a Fragile Alpine Plant 2012-11-19T16:55:15Z Senecio Jacobaea, ragwort, is a showy plant with heads of bright yellow flowers, common in pastures and by roadsides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z In the wheat-field millions of green blades are shooting up; on the roadside grasses and thistles, dandelions and ragwort, and a hundred little weeds, are pushing and jostling each other for their summer places. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z The 83-year-old Tory grandee made the proposal in a letter to Matt Shardlow, chief executive of a charity called Buglife, which is concerned about the effect of declining ragwort on bees and rare insects. ‘Make young unemployed pull up ragwort for benefits,’ says Lord Tebbit 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The flowers which by their profusion and brilliancy most attract attention are, among myriads, the lupine, yucca, goldenrod, shooting star, ragwort, Queen Ann's lace, bears clover, false hellebore, many gilias, pentstemons, and monkey flowers. Sequoia [California] National Park 2011-09-21T02:00:31.497Z The red admiral was there, resting on the bark of the trees, asleep in the sun with wings expanded, or drifting about the clumps of yellow ragwort, doubtful whether to perch or not. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z How bright and cheerful the ragworts and buttercups looked, and what sweet and homelike music the robin made, singing from one of the apple-trees! A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z There were a few wild flowers, even in December—a belated foxglove, a clump of ragwort, a blue harebell, or a stray specimen of buttercup, campion, herb robert, yarrow, thistle, and actually a strawberry blossom. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z And the stream ran singing and bubbling between the orchard and the farther fields, where, amid the sprinkled gold of the ragwort, scuttled countless rabbits. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z “Follow me,” said the king of the fairies, and away they went across the Irish Ocean, every mother’s son of them astride his ragwort. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The girls made their way gingerly over a freshly-prepared bed of young cabbages to the borderland where rhubarb and horse-radish merged into wormwood and ragwort. The School by the Sea One of our best known species, Colletes fodiens, can often be found in abundance on the heads of ragwort along the sea-coast in July. Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects There were large rocks and tangled masses of brambles, and faded clumps of ragwort and teasel, and yellow bracken stumps. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z Even the flowers were unobtrusive, the ragwort, thyme, and yellow gorse claimed no deliberate notice, and the thistle-down flew past like air made visible. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The sheaf of golden ragwort will be like a wand, and you'll still have the spell of fairyland in your face. The Head Girl at the Gables As she spoke, she led the way through a little narrow path, that crossed a heath where heather grew, and great masses of yellow starred ragwort. Fairy Tales from the German Forests There was an abundance of yellow—cinquefoil, crowfoot, ragwort, bellwort, and shy patches of gold-colored violets. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The banks were covered with trees, and tall reeds, and masses of purple willow herb, and agrimony, and yellow ragwort, which were reflected in the dark waters of quiet pools. The Madcap of the School They are neighbors, but not friends, and they live in the same sphere, held together only by the law of gravity which holds to one spot of earth the rose and the ragwort. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills But no horsie answered to the appeal, and the ragwort remained the simple herb it was before. Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale Max looked up at the mouldering walls, with their crevices dotted with patches of polypody and ruta muraria, velvety moss, and flaunting golden sun ragwort, and wondered whether the place was ever attacked. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai Burns tells the story of a company of witches pulling ragwort by the roadside, getting each astride her ragwort with the summons "Up horsie!" and flying away. The Book of Hallowe'en Yellow weed, or ragwort, covers some fields almost as thickly as buttercups in summer, but it lacks the rich colour of the buttercup. Nature Near London And touching this lost lad, ye all ken his mother was a hawk of an uncanny nest, a second cousin of Kate Kimmer, of Barfloshan, as rank a witch as ever rode on ragwort. Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland In summer it was gay with bracken, and golden ragwort, and wild geranium, but in winter it looked only fit for adventurous witches to gambol in. The Romance of the Coast Cloud shadow, gleaming sunshine, purple heather, yellow ragwort like dusts of gold upon the mountain side, and at his feet the ever-changing sea. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai All the willows and poplars have also winged seeds: so have the whole vast tribe of hawkweeds, groundsels, ragworts, thistles, fleabanes, cat's-ears, dandelions, and lettuces. Science in Arcady But as they turned to tramp through the ragwort and bracken towards the house, intent on cups of tea, the sight of the western sky gave them sudden start. Pearl of Pearl Island In a clearing before her spread a lake of willow-herb, of a pure bright pink, hemmed in by a golden shore of ragwort. The Marriage of William Ashe The remains of a turf wall surrounded the cottage, but the low garden that this wall enclosed was overrun with ragwort and nettles and hemlock. The Romance of the Coast The demesne of Mount Music lay along its banks; in woods often, more often in pastures; with boggy places ringed with willows, lovely, in their seasons, with yellow flags, and meadowsweet, kingcups, ragwort and loosestrife. Mount Music But in Ireland fields of thistles and acres of ragwort, with tall purple spikes of loose strife everywhere, seem to be held as valid crops, fit for food and good at rent-paying. About Ireland He plunged on through the masses of dripping ragwort towards the eastern cliff, and stood absorbed by the grim fury of the Gouliot Race. Pearl of Pearl Island The foolish boy likewise pulled his ragwort and cried with the rest, 'Up, horsie', and, strange to tell, away he flew with the company. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) The ragworts and the wild geraniums made a yellow and purple fretwork all around him, and the colour gave him a sense of keen gladness. The Romance of the Coast She was seated in a hollow of the hill, and the tall star-grass and blossoming ragwort grew so freely at this spot that only her head was visible. North, South and over the Sea Lovely blue bell-flowers grow in patches; golden ragwort, two sorts of field scabious, yellow toad-flax, and occasionally some white campion remain almost into winter. A Cotswold Village Golden patches of ragwort blazed here and there among a tangled mass of no doubt worthier herbage,—such even in nature is the power of gold,—and there were the usual birds. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance He observed that as each person pulled a ragwort, he or she got astride of it, and called out, 'Up, horsie', on which the ragwort flew off, like Pegasus, through the air, with its rider. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) As he passed the kirk, in the adjoining field he fell in with a crew of men and women, who were busy pulling stems of the plant ragwort. The Letters of Robert Burns No golden head was to be seen amid the star-grass and ragwort this time; no graceful girl's figure was outlined against the evening sky. North, South and over the Sea She dwelled, as she passed, on all tiny, pretty things—on the barbaric yellow ragwort, and pink convolvuli; on all the twinkling of flowers, and dew, and snail-tracks drying in the sun. The Trespasser In the hollow among the sand-hills where the cradle of the boat was, fine rushes grew, and tufts of ragwort, and stalks of last year's thistles, and sea-osiers where the spring oozed down. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War As he passed the kirk, in the adjoining field, he fell in with a crew of men and women, who were busy pulling stems of the plant ragwort. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) He observed that as each person pulled a ragwort, he or she got astride of it, and called out, "Up, horsie!" on which the ragwort flew off, like Pegasus, through the air with its rider. The Letters of Robert Burns Yes, I am convinced of it; it was that bunch of yellow ragwort on the mantelpiece in my bedroom. Christie, the King's Servant As they descended through the rockery, yellow with ragwort, they felt themselves dip into the inert, hot air of the bay. The Trespasser In Ireland they were supposed to ride to their scenes of merrymaking on the ragwort, hence known as the "fairies' horse." The Folk-lore of Plants All about grew tall, fruiting grasses, and many a bright flower; clusters of pink willow-weed, patches of yellow ragwort, the perfumed meadowsweet, and, amid bracken and bramble, the purple shining of a great campanula. The Crown of Life The foolish boy likewise pulled his ragwort, and cried with the rest, "Up, horsie!" and, strange to tell, away he flew with the company. The Letters of Robert Burns But the yellow ragwort was all over; great patches of it grew even on the margin of the sand, and its bright flowers gave the whole place a golden colouring. Christie, the King's Servant For depression, thyme was recommended, and a Manx preservative against all kinds of infectious diseases is ragwort. The Folk-lore of Plants The large ragwort—known in Ireland as the "fairies' horse"—has long been sought for by witches when taking their midnight journeys. The Folk-lore of Plants |
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