| 单词 | sloe |
| 例句 | “That sloe gin’s gone to my innards. Give it a minute for my stomach to settle...” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Dadi, meanwhile, looked like she may as well have been sipping a sloe gin fizz in the Bahamas. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They drank sloe gin secretly and told dirty jokes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Soon they were passing through a hilly rocky land, and on both shores there were steep slopes buried in deep brakes of thorn and sloe, tangled with brambles and creepers. Tolkien Day: how well do you know the lands of Lord of the Rings? 2013-03-25T14:53:46Z It’s a wonderfully economic performance, all slouch and sloe eyes, offering a moral thermometer of the fallen world through which Raylan moves via Olyphant’s sly repertoire of expressions: grin, smirk, smile, hard stare, blank bemusement. ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Sloe, a plumlike fruit used to make gin Candy is dandy And liquor is quicker, But is that still so If the liquor is sloe? Style Invitational Week 1449: Let’s have a get-together 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z And action: handpicked wild sloe, juniper, copper pan, vigorous stirring, swirling steam. Tea Together Jams: Successful Spread Trading 2010-10-14T14:30:00Z However, he said there had also been "massive highs", such as drinking sloe gin together on New Year's Eve and "all the sunrises and sunsets". Devon brothers complete Atlantic rowing challenge 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z Clinton bled support to minor candidates and sloe Nevada’s unique “none of the above” option. Presenting your presidential Power Rankings 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z “A few handfuls of raspberries or blackberries will transform the cheapest vodka,” but the same goes for oranges and rum or sloes and gin. The power of pickles: a guide to preserving almost everything – from jam-making to chutneys 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z I loved Hello, Marjorie even before I learned it was named after one of the owner’s grandmothers, who drank sloe gin by the glass and smoked cigarettes by the pack. You’re going where? Des Moines 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z He sneaked sips of sloe gin from a bottle in his pocket. The Golden State Killer suspect became part of their family — and slowly revealed his violent side 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Right now, I’m in a park, surrounded by new white sloe blossom, listening to Eden and trying not to let anyone see the faces I’m pulling. Musicians on Mark Hollis: 'He found hooks in places I'm still trying to fathom' 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It is believed that Suffolk Pink dates back to the 14th Century and other natural ingredients such as elderberries, blackthorn or sloe juice were also added to create the colour. Your questions about England answered 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Then there are gins flavoured with cucumber, pink grapefruit and sloe berries. Why is gin and tonic getting pricier? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Horgan is tall and pretty, with sloe eyes, pronounced cheekbones, and a strong jaw. The Brutal Romantic Behind “Catastrophe” 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The dinner party: sloe gin, name tags and napkins Clearly, there is no point hosting a party yourself unless it is a social media sensation. Hessian napkins, popcorn tinsel and wholesome #squadgoals: have yourself an Instagrammable Christmas 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s made of sloe gin, apricot liqueur and lime juice. Rachel Maddow jokes with Jimmy Fallon about Donald Trump 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z While at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Ms Yap and her mother enjoyed four glasses of champagne, two bottles of wine costing £69 each, six cocktails totalling £86 and a sloe gin. 'Free meal' garage customer's £700 bill at top London restaurant - BBC News 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Our recipe is similar to a sloe gin, but less on the sugar and more on the fruit. Is boutique gin the tonic? 2012-10-12T22:58:05Z Booze is banned by the olympian killjoys, but blackcurrant cordial looks much like sloe gin. Taking a picnic to the Olympic park 2012-07-27T11:04:47Z The name signifies in Gaelic the church of the sloe or wild plum-tree. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z In our markets the chief adulteration is operated by the mixture of sloe and ash leaves, and colouring with terra Japonica and other drugs. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z I sleep among the hills, The heather is my bed; I dip the termon-well for drink, And pull the sloe for bread. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z The crab has been transformed into the apple, and the sloe into the plum. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z They attack, indeed, the buds of the sloe and hawthorn as well; but of these, being valueless, no one takes note. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The Garton artificial fertilization experiments have shown endless deviations from the ordinary type, ranging from minute seeds with a closely adhering husk to big berries almost as large as sloes and about as worthless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Paul, the elder, was a tall, handsome man, with dark hair, and eyes like sloes. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z The rainbow spanning a planet shower, The sloe in berry, the flax in flower. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z But hold your tongue for a while, and cast your eye along the valley, and watch the mist gathering on the furze and sloe trees. The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables 2011-09-05T02:00:18.250Z The women are white as milk, with eyes like sloes, and lips like red rowans. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z She was quaintly dressed, after the manner of ancient dames of the sixteenth century, and on her head she wore a cap as white as sloe blossom. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Give me wild things of moss and peat— The gipsy flower that bravely goes, The heather's little hard, brown feet, And the black eyes of sloes. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z I will sing to the striding sowers With the finch on the greening sloe, And my father will sing the seed-song That only the wise men know. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Blue-black sloes adhere to—they do not hang on—the blackthorn bushes: in places the boughs are loaded with them. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z No wonder ye can tie knots in yoursel' at the parallel bars that were siccan a trouble to set up for ye to caper on, and your e'en like sloes after the first frosts. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Irrelevantly—why should the thing strike him then?—he likened her paleness to the creamy tint of the hawthorn blossom, warm, and smoother than the wintry white of the sloe. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Never, not for any white one; You are beautiful as any sloe. Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts 2011-07-06T02:00:44.873Z While he hung them to drain on a nail outside, the parson poured him out a wineglass of his wife's renowned sloe gin. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z On the bank stand two beautiful youths, nearly black, with eyes like sloes, and with crisped hair standing erect like a flame above their foreheads. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z The archaeologists also found remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash, the second the shape of a croquet mallet and made of sloe wood. Bronze Age battle site unearthed 2011-05-22T06:38:15Z That black sloe my eyes will paint thee: Hast thou wandered near the ocean? An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z This little quarry, and the sloe blossom, and the primroses, and the view over the water, are ours. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z De wild sloes, de red haws an' de crab apples is ripe. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z Only into my carrier-companion the souls of thistles and sloes seemed to have entered. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z His lips are a trifle thick, his eyes like sloes. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z And then she crouches behind the sloe hedge, treated in as step-motherly a manner as that unhappy fruit which would gladly be a plum, but which tarries for ever in sour immaturity. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z A preternaturally tall young lady, with eyes like sloes and a very superior figure, attracts him most. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Unkind men, unfascinated, called Jimmie's black eyes boiled sloes, and swore that he rouged his cheeks; but women raved about him. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z One of them, a lovely girl, with eyes like sloes, who was standing outside, spoke to me, and invited me in. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z November Eve it is not right to gather or eat blackberries or sloes, nor after that time as long as they last. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Country people make them into wine, and it used to be said that much that is sold as port had its origin in the skins of British sloes instead of Portuguese grapes. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Some use sloe gin, others use vinegar to soak the raisins. Gin-soaked raisins relieve to back pain? 2010-09-14T04:16:00Z It's as cool and refreshing as a sloe gin fizz. 'Handbook for Hosts' vignettes inspired by film noir at Fringe Festival 2010-07-18T17:18:00Z Although the food ration was not much people stretched the rations by eating a lot of wild food, especially fruit, blackberries and sloe being top favourites. 2010-01-07T12:47:00Z She had such an adorable air, standing with her little head on one side, and her eyes black as sloes, full of mysterious thought, that Caroline was obliged to hug her. Capricious Caroline To wander all day long amongst bushes, hazels, oaks, thorns, of every hue and fruit—the haw, crab, and sloe—is most delightful. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 The whole valley was my own orchard; and I selected at pleasure, without check or restraint, the nut, the sloe, and the hind-berry. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 The hawthorn and the sloe are its chief food plants in this country, but it is here too rare an insect to do much damage. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species I have come across an English proverb: “When the sloe tree is as white as a sheet, you p. 236must sow your barley be it dry or wet.” Springtime and Other Essays Birds, when they pluck cherries, sloes, and haws, fly away with them to some convenient place; and when they have devoured the fruit, drop the stone into the ground. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Wearied as I was by the last of many days' hard riding from the Ohio, I was the lighter for carrying with me a scarlet-lipped vision with eyes like sloes. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois By cultivation, the acrid and bitter sloe has grown into the beautiful plum. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul It has been found feeding on the elm, willow, sloe, currant, nettle, and hop. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species Her skin was red as roses and white as milk, her eyes were black as sloe berries, and her hair, dark as the raven’s wing, fell about her shoulders in long waving tresses. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales A bush of rowan, black sloes, Dusky blackthorns, Plenty of food, acorns, pure berries, Bare flags. Ancient Irish Poetry “He must come oftener,” said a plump Sister of thirty, with a little nose turned up at the end, eyes black as sloes and lips round as a plum. Devil Stories An Anthology When they had got their load, they would pick berries or—in the autumn—crab-apples and sloes, which were afterwards cooked in the oven. Ditte: Girl Alive! The caterpillar is green, marked obliquely with white; it feeds on the birch and also on the sloe. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species Holly, sloe, and climbing ivy Grew around the rocks luxuriant, While near by a clear spring rippled. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. Plentiful in the West the fruit of the apple-tree, Many kings and princes; Plentiful are luxurious sloes, Plentiful oak-woods of noble mast. Ancient Irish Poetry Prunus, a plum tree, is derived directly from the Greek; prunus silvestris, in Columella and Pliny, is supposed to mean the black thorn or sloe tree. The Book of Pears and Plums And she had eyes, Bob, little and wide apart, and black as sloes, with a snaky look. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement They proved to have been as black as sloes, very little and very near together. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) She had to entice him, as she had enticed the child in bygone days, the sweet little child with the eyes like sloes that was to run from the chair to the next halting-place. The Son of His Mother Greyhounds are in it and beagles, Blackberries and sloes of the dark blackthorn, Her dwellings close against the woods, Deer scattered about her oak-woods. Ancient Irish Poetry The humps are stunted growths of juniper, sloe, bramble, hawthorn, or a trifoliate plant, with grass growing in the shadow. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. Shirley Babies!" said another, scornfully, "they come thick as blackberries, and bitter as sloes. The Broom-Squire When the boy's eyes, which were as bright as sloes, implored her to let him go out, she dared not keep him back. The Son of His Mother Men that like the touch of the sloe in me shall never be drawn away by your sweet lips.' The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court The pistol bullet which had struck me, was sticking in the fleshy part of my left shoulder, just below the skin, and made a small protuberance resembling a sloe in form and colour. Hair Breadth Escapes Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. The olives were not yet in flower, but the plums and sloes were powdered with white; all was in order. The Spanish Jade At noon, flies came forth to bask on the stones; the furze, decked with yellow flowers, was visited by countless bees; and bronze-winged beetles crept among the thorny branches of the hawthorn and the sloe. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain And such wonderfully pretty girls, my dear Augusta, with eyes like sloes and skins like the petals of their own magnolia-blossoms. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 They console themselves for the taste of the sloe by an imaginary liqueur like maraschino. Somehow Good He went to Italy with the idea that it never rained there, and that oranges grew on the hedges, as sloes do with us. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 These and sloes were the only two we recognised, and we took especial care to go in for none of the others; wisely deciding that it was better to confine ourselves to the known. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The last red roseleaf had fluttered silently down; the last purple sloe had fallen from its sapless stem. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Absorption from the mucous membrane is increased by applying to its surface the austere acids, as of vitriol, lemon-juice, crab-juice, sloes. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life And naturally sloes made you think of them. Somehow Good Her eyes, black as sloes, were fringed with long dark eyelashes which gave their glances an espiègle expression. The Toilers of the Field There were Northmen, from Norway, who steered westward through mist and storm to an unknown land, where, behind ice and snow, they found plants and green meadows, and bushes with blue-black grapes—sloe bushes. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The sloe, wild fruit of the black thorn. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The wild sloe grew across the way, so that they had to ride round the bushes. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales That is what every one says if you ask him if he ever tasted a sloe. Somehow Good My heart in my bosom is black as a sloe! Modern British Poetry A Hun's Grave lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriantly among the stones. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen You shall have another glass of sloe gin when you have grasped the situation. Simon Two eyes had little kitty Black as a sloe; And they spied the little mousie, Long time ago. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Een as black as sloes, and her hair was like the sheen of a raven's wing. The Day of Judgment Two black eyes had little Kitty, Black as a sloe; And they spied the little mousie, Long time ago. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk Bushes of the wild sloe here and there blocked up the path, so that they had to ride over them. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen "You deserve a third sloe gin!" said he. Simon The banks of rivers were shaded by thickets of laurel and by the sloe, the original form of the wild plum tree. The Tree-Dwellers I want any information I can get on varieties of English and black walnuts, hazelnuts, hickories and persimmons, "sloes" and any other varieties of currants. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 They have been seen as eager as country children after the ripe blackberries in the hedges, or, later in the year, after sloes and haws. Mamma's Stories about Birds The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the trees, the sloe-thorn alone still bore fruit, but the sloes were sour, and set the teeth on edge. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen He loves the fat meadow—his taste is low; He loves the fat worms, and he dines in a row With fifty fine cousins all black as a sloe. The Book of Humorous Verse Straight as a poplar; eyes like a sloe. Under the Rose The entire plant is used for much the same purposes as the sloe. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 Blackberries were abundant on the edge of every thicket; on the heights of the Scalp, over which we poached without restraint, haws and sloes grew plentifully. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer He not only bestowed upon her sloes, and dew-berries, and hazel-nuts "brown as the squirrel whose teeth crack 'em," but caught for her the squirrel itself. Jesse Cliffe But her eyes—black as sloes—were as sharp as a bird's. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace The boughs yield a miserable sustenance, berries and stony sloes, and plants torn up by the root feed me. The Aeneid of Virgil It is sometimes black, but oftener yellowish and waxy, beautifully tinted with red, and makes better pies and puddings than the sloe, for which purposes it is often sold in the markets. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 You put the torch to the widow's thatch, you have driven the cattle from Elrigmore, and what of a girl with dark eyes like the sloe? John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn For hours we wound round p. 255and round within this cool and refreshing labyrinth of arbutus, bellota or evergreen oak, aspen, clematis, broom, and what looked like the sloe, besides other and unknown vegetation. Byeways in Palestine Altogether she was a charming little old lady, with a pair of bead-like eyes as black as sloes. The Iron Horse They rambled along by the stream, finding before long a blackthorn laden with sloes, of which Pan ate two, and Sydney contented himself with half of one. Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea Lastly, she came with a small glass of sloe gin. Clayhanger Ivy hath berries As black as any sloe; There come the owl And eat him as she go. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV In Roscommon, in central Ireland, a coin, a sloe, and a bit of wood were baked in a cake. The Book of Hallowe'en I am as brown as brown can be, And my eyes as black as sloe; I am as brisk as brisk can be, And wild as forest doe. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The third sort was a black berry, not in such plenty as the others, and resembled a bullace, or large kind of sloe, both in size and taste. A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat I have swallowed burgundy with the French, hollands with the Dutch, sherbet with a Turk, sloe juice with an Englishman, and water with a simple Gentoo. John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts O, do, no, so, to, right, tow, dough, Bowes, beau, sloe, slow. Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) The one getting the sloe would live longest, the one getting the wood was destined to die within the year. The Book of Hallowe'en By the Germans it was called the 'wishing rod,' or 'wishing thorn,' which points to the fact that it was often cut from the blackthorn or sloe. Chatterbox, 1905. Ivy hath berries, as black as any sloe, There comes the owl and eats them as she go. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide The boy moaned and opened his eyes, the big helpless eyes of childhood, black as a sloe, and with long black lashes. The Eternal City It kept under lock and key the insurgent impulses that moved him when he looked into the sloe eyes charged with reserve. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North In Cornwall sloes and blackberries were considered unfit to eat after the fairies had passed by, because all the goodness was extracted. The Book of Hallowe'en If dried, they make a very fair substitute for tea, and when high duties were placed on imported tea, it was usual to find the sloe trees stripped of their marketable foliage. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Now, one could be as dark as a sloe and yet have a cousin as yellow as a marigold, but Ramsey did not see it so. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi They can squeeze Bourdeaux out of the sloe, and draw Champagne from an apple. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Better acquainted than they with the forest paths, I would gather mulberries and sloes, and lay them on leaves at the threshold of their grotto, and make them little presents of plovers' eggs. The Well of Saint Clare Her abundant black tresses had been ruthlessly shorn away, and tiny curls clustered around forehead and neck; her eyes, dark as sloes, were large and thoughtful. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 There are nuts, too, here, and large sloes or wild bullace. Nature Near London Dark were her eyes as the sloe and they called me, Called me with voice independent of breath. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar The second count in the information charged the said Rhodes with having in his possession the above quantity of sloe, ash, elder, and other leaves, under the like penalty of 2,000l. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Among the black are blackberries, the fruit of the bramble; and sloes, which are like a very small hard plum. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. One spring!—they've cleared the bog and sloe, And down the ebb tide buoyant go— That stately tide. Tales of the Chesapeake We returned the evening of the third day as black as sloes, and with only a few shreds of singed clothes on our backs, thoroughly worn out with hard walking and insufficient sustenance. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Tea is mixed with the leaves of the sloe and with other refuse, or dry tea-leaves are roasted on hot copper plates, so returning to the proper colour and being sold as fresh. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Like sloes are her eyes, or blue as the skies? Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses This has somewhat of the taste of a sloe, but is unlike it in every other respect. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 I could see nothing but thicket of briar and sloe climbing the steep side of the mound. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut His eyes were large and black as sloes, his teeth small, regular, and white as ivory, and his whole countenance, when in repose, wore an expression which won confidence rather than excited distrust. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy The eye that's sparkling black I love, Ay, more than that which blue is; And thine are like two stars above, And sloe black—Nancy Lewis. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827 His hair was longer than ever and his eyes shone so black as sloes; and to Jenny's mind there was a touch of stark madness in 'em without doubt. The Torch and Other Tales Here, the cedar, palmy-branchèd; Here, the hazel low; Here, the aspen, quivering ever; Here, the powdered sloe. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 The third sort was a blackberry; this was not in such plenty as the others and resembled a bullace, or large kind of sloe, both in size and taste. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship "Come, Mister independent grocer! go faster if you can," cries Sir Wincent, "though I think you have bought your horse where you buy your tea, for he's werry sloe." Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities "An' bring the white bob full of beer—an' whisky, an' water—an' some o' the sloe gin; an' devel knows how many glasses." The Devil's Garden So Borlase went to her aid and he found a basket half full of amazing sloes and a maiden the like of which he never had found afore. The Torch and Other Tales Yet unto the poor is given Power the earth to bless; And the sloe's small fruit of down, And the hazel's clusters brown, Are the tribute they can offer—are their mite of usefulness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 He caught the gleam of a white throat and of dark sloe eyes. Simon Called Peter Tribulation’s what he needs to sweeten him, same as winter sweetens sloes; an’ ’t is tribulation I mean him to have. Children of the Mist She had black, streaming hair, sloe eyes, and an arch expression. White Shadows in the South Seas We poured some sloe gin into her and calmed her down, and then my eldest son took her home; and when he came back, he said that Bob Battle had gone to bed. The Torch and Other Tales They was struck like as stone, and their lips was gone the colour of sloe berries. At a Winter's Fire She was dark, straight, and lissom of figure, with ripe lips and eyes as black as sloes, and she hoped that the hair in the minister's ring was his mother's. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts The blackberry harvest lasts for several weeks, as the berries do not all ripen at once, but successively, and is supplemented by elderberries and sloes. The Amateur Poacher Where are the father’s mouth and nose, The mother’s eyes as black as sloes? A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago BRAMBLE.—Produces a black insipid fruit, but which is used by the poor people for tarts and to form a made wine: when mixt with the juice of sloes it is rendered very palatable. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II In County Roscommon, which borders on County Leitrim, a cake is made in nearly every house on Hallowe'en, and a ring, a coin, a sloe, and a chip of wood are put into it. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul Richard Yorke, as the keeper had hinted, was a very handsome lad—brown-cheeked, blue eyed, and with rich clustering hair as black as a sloe; but at this moment he did not look prepossessing. Bred in the Bone There was a round black sloe on the blackthorn beside me, the beautiful gloss, or bloom, on it made it look like a tiny plum. The Amateur Poacher Or cautiously chaumbering an acrid sloe, imagine it to be the parent of a green gage? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 Along an alleyway he went and slipping in at the back door of the saloon began drinking a drink made of a combination of sloe gin and soda water. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Ecod, she has two eyes as black as sloes, and cheeks as broad and red as a pulpit cushion. She Stoops to Conquer The trees, when he looked closely, were thick with a dark little berry that seemed more like a sour sloe than the succulent, delicious spicy fruit associated with its name. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Look then from trivial up to greater woes; From the poor bird-boy with his roasted sloes, To where the dungeon'd mourner heaves the sigh; Where not one cheering sun-beam meets his eye. The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem I had climbed to the ruined Castle of Gurçons, where sloes and blackberries were waiting for the birds in the feudal court strewn with stones. Two Summers in Guyenne Or had I overdone it with the sloes, Snared by their home-picked brand of ardent gin Designed to warm a shivering sportsman's toes And light a fire his reckless head within? The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch "Well," said Richard, impatiently, "then the boy has eyes like sloes, and a brown skin, like an Italian, and black hair almost; it will be quite." A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day The sloe was lost in flower, The April elm was dim; That was the lover's hour, The hour for lies and him. Last Poems by A. E. Housman Waiters passed bearing trays of steaming food, pitchers of foaming beer, colorless drinks with bobbing sliced limes, purplish sloe gin and sirupy cordials. The Happy End This girl has the clear Southern pallor; she's of the olive hue; and her eyes are black as sloes,—not that I know what sloes are. The Lady of the Aroostook Large black sloes; a variety of the wild plum. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire And the forefront of the head, when gained, is stiff with brambles, and stubbed with sloes, and mitred with a choice band of stanch sting-nettles. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War The Squire said these latter words on account of the fixed stare of a pair of bright black eyes like sloes in the head of the little chap who had brought the trap for Nora. Light O' the Morning The stuff they have put on the market is neither better nor worse than the average sloe gin. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel The sloe in blossom, the hawthorns green, the larches in the park changed from black to green in two or three days. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Her eyes were black as sloes, and flashed like smoldering fires. The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise The leaves of the ash and the sloe are used to adulterate tea. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 No dash of Jamaica ginger or Pain-killer or sloe gin or sarsaparilla to give it piquancy. Mother Carey's Chickens Since I made the firm issue a weekly paper called Skeffington's Poultry Farmer, free to all country customers, the consumption of sloe gin has been enormous among agriculturists. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel Another witness with the movements of a snake, and eyes as black as sloes, was called; and he gave evidence which tallied exactly with that sworn to by Luc Lestang. The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief They would find our summer acceptable, even after a Southern summer heavy-sweet with magnolia and jasmine, honeysuckle and mimosa; with spirea and bridal-wreath and white-blossomed sloe trees. The Boss of Little Arcady PLUMS.—The wild sloe is the parent of the plum, but the acclimated kinds come from the East. The Book of Household Management Thus it is said— "When the sloe tree is as white as a sheet, Sow your barley whether it be dry or wet." The Folk-lore of Plants Another witness with the movements of a snake, and eyes as black as sloes, was called. Annette, the Metis Spy It was a harsh and cheerless place, all thorn and sloe, with here and there a gnarled, leafless tree. Highland Ballad As the waning light showed me her, I thought of a blossomed young sloe tree in her own far valley of the Old Dominion. The Boss of Little Arcady Some of these are harmless, others are to a certain degree poisonous; as, for example, are the leaves of all the varieties of the plum and cherry tribe, to which the sloe belongs. The Book of Household Management At midday, soup with goose, roast goose with pickled sloes, or a turkey, roast chicken, milk pudding, and sour milk. Letters of Anton Chekhov This was not improbable; for she had her best hat on, which made her eyes seem very dark—"like sloes," Chinky said, though neither of them had any clear idea what a sloe was. The Getting of Wisdom On a Thursday at midnight bundles are made up of resinous splinters, black and red spotted hemlock, caperspurge, rosemary, and twigs of the sloe. The Golden Bough "The weevil knows nothing but its peas and beans, the golden Rhynchites only the sloe, and the Balaninus only the nut or acorn." Fabre, Poet of Science Three brisk minutes accounted for many silkworms, pet larvae, French exercises, school caps, half-prepared bones and skulls, and a dozen pots of home-made sloe jam. Stalky & Co. Her eyes, black as sloes in her white face, never moved from his; she made no sound. The Country House A large lady, in black satin, with eyes and hair as black as sloes, with gold chains, scent-bottles, sable tippet, worked pocket-handkerchief, and four twinkling rings on each of her plump white fingers. The Paris Sketch Book And with its tiny smile, adorable The mouth that never knew life's bitter sloes; And like the incurved petal of a rose The little ear, now deaf in Death's strong spell. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 What, blow up a decent young man like you, and a well-favored, and hair like jet, and eyes in your head like sloes! Put Yourself in His Place She affected plum colour and had eyes like sloes—the fashionable hue in the neat-foot-and-pretty-ankle period. The Prophet of Berkeley Square In other respects there were no signs of winter: the olives were now ripe, and appeared on each side of the road as black as sloes; and the corn was already half a foot high. Travels through France and Italy Her brooding eyes, looking out straight from under the level, dark brows, seemed sloe black and wonderful with their steady, passionate light. To the Last Man Witness the wild kale, parsnip, carrot, crab-apple, sloe, etc., all utterly worthless, but nevertheless the first parents of their now choice descendants. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Katusha, with her eyes black as sloes, her face radiant with joy, was flying towards him, and they caught hold of each other's hands. Resurrection There were oaks and alders, yews and sloes, just as there are in our woods now. Madam How and Lady Why The sloe, which is the blackthorn, comes still earlier and has fewer leaves. Penelope's Irish Experiences From the white-blossom'd sloe my dear Chloris requested A sprig, her fair breast to adorn: No, by Heavens! Poems and Songs of Robert Burns When loitering beyond the castle, on the way to school, with a brother somewhat older than myself, who was uniformly my champion and protector, we espied a round sloe high up in the hedge-row. Life of John Sterling Perhaps you might be a doubter, with no eyes for the 'dim kingdom'; perhaps you might gaze for ever, and never be able to see a red-capped fiddler, fiddling under a blossoming sloe bush. Penelope's Irish Experiences That is the tree of the old English song:— 'From the white-blossomed sloe My dear Chloe requested A sprig her fair breast to adorn. Penelope's Irish Experiences |
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