| 单词 | southernwood |
| 例句 | For little trees in tubs we had southernwood stuck in cotton reels—these make enchanting tubs, and there are a good many different shapes, so that your flower tubs are pleasantly varied. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Lad′die, a little lad: a boy.—Lad's love, a provincial name of the southernwood. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Boy′ishness.—Boy's love, a popular name for southernwood; Boy's play, trifling. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z In the little room below, the lamp was lit; for the glow fell warmly upon the gravel path, shell-bordered, and upon the tufted mignonette, sea-pinks, and feathery southernwood. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Here, too, are sweet marjoram, rosemary, and rue; so also bay and thyme, and some pot-herbs whose use is forgotten, besides southernwood and wormwood. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z For the city of a day sprigs of southernwood, lavender, thyme, or marjoram make charming little trees. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Even to-day we find people taking from their old homes a root of sweetbriar, or a pot of shamrock or heather, a cutting of southernwood or of lilac. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z If fresh southernwood is added each time it passes through the linen, the composition will be improved. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z The summer flowers were disappearing; but the more hardy roots, the spearmint, the gillyflower, the thyme, and the southernwood, sent forth to the autumnal air "a faint decaying smell." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 In odd corners there are sure to be a few specimens of southernwood, mugwort, and other herbs; not for use, but from adherence to the old customs. The Toilers of the Field You see that yew and larch and elder can be made to look like palm trees, and that shrubs in tubs are really like sprigs of southernwood in cotton reels. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Pitt opened a small gate, and came up to the house, through an army of balsams, hollyhocks, roses, and honeysuckles, and balm and southernwood. A Red Wallflower A scent of rosemary, southernwood, and verbena was wafted to him from the little garden,—clean, old-fashioned scents, English in their very essence. Antony Gray,—Gardener Indeed, the captain was so bitter against the South, that he had asked his aunt Madge if it was right to let southernwood grow in the garden. Captain Horace Southernwood!" she said,—"I smell southernwood somewhere, Rose. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Then one after another he took up the herbs, southernwood and all, and bruised them to get their separate fragrance. Country Neighbors A favorite shrub in our garden, as in every country dooryard, was southernwood, or lad's-love. Home Life in Colonial Days They went into a parlour with its window open, upon the window-sill a pigeon mourning among pots of wallflowers and southernwood that filled the entering air with sweetness. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure She was just tucking a bit of southernwood into her bodice, when a voice on the other side of the hedge said softly,— “Jenny.” The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender Philip felt that it was best to stop the car among the suburban groves of southernwood. The Magic City "You take some southernwood," counseled Sabrina, and he laid her hand gently down, to select his posy. Country Neighbors The southernwood had strong medicinal qualities, and was used to cure "vanityes of the head." Home Life in Colonial Days They walked down the glen in groups, elderly women with snow-white piped caps, younger ones with sober hoods, and all with Bibles carried in their napkins and southernwood or tansy between the leaves. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure On May-day, then, I entered Mr. Tucker's Bun Shop with a beating heart, a scrubbed face and a sprig of southernwood in my button-hole, and Miss Plinlimmon fell on my neck and kissed me. The Adventures of Harry Revel He got bits of southernwood out of the garden and stuck them in cotton-reels, which made beautiful pots, and they looked like bay trees in tubs. The Magic City Mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood are still to be found in old gardens: they stand here side by side. Nature Near London And pickled sucking-pig And flesh of whelps floating in liver-sauce With salad of minced radishes in brine; All served with that hot spice of southernwood The land of Wu supplies. More Translations from the Chinese The odour of the southernwood on the window-sill changed at once to laurel, rain-drenched, dark, and waving over tombs for the boy spellbound on the floor. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure And she gathered up the aromatic greenery, the southernwood, the mint, the verbenas, the balm, and the fennel. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The garden border where I stood Was sweet with pinks and southernwood. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. It should be adorned on this side with roses, lilies, and the marigold; on that side with parsley, cost, fennel, southernwood, coriander, sage, savery, hyssop, mint, vine, dettany, pellitory, lettuce, cresses, and the peony. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The southernwood wakes him, and the green seeds of the caraway get him well along through the sermon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 Take a handful each of balm of southernwood, origanum, wormwood, calamint, bay berries and marjoram, and four drachms of juniper berries; make a decoction of these in water, and use this for fomentations and infusions. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy She filled her skirt with a harvest of aromatic plants, southernwood, mint, verbenas. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The window and door were open, and the morning air brought with it a mingled scent of southernwood, thyme, and sweet-briar from the patch of garden by the side of the cottage. Adam Bede The pair had hobbled into the garden to gather rosemary, southernwood, rue, and other plants proper to be strewed upon the body, and burned by way of fumigation in the chimney of the cottage. The Bride of Lammermoor The benches, the books, the smiles, the curtsies, the very nosegays, redolent of southernwood, were unchanged, but all the great good girls of her day, the prime first class, where was it? The Two Guardians or, Home in This World She gathers the white southernwood, Along the streams in the valleys. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 Phoebe turned away with a little toss of her head, and he turned, too, breaking a sprig of southernwood. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life And balmier breath than was ever borne by blossom is the pure fragrance of green growing things,--southernwood, mint, sweet fern, bayberry, sweetbrier. Sabbath in Puritan New England Not a breath Swayed the sick vineyard underneath, Or moved the dusty southernwood. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson And I will here give a picture of such a boy—the child associated in my mind with a spray of southernwood. A Traveller in Little Things She gathers the white southernwood, By the ponds, on the islets. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 "Yes, that was right," he said absently, and pinched a spray of southernwood that grew beside the door. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life These traditions are softened by the influence of years into simply idealizing, in the mind of every country-bred New Englander, the peculiar refreshing scent of the southernwood as a typical Sabbath-day fragrance. Sabbath in Puritan New England There was a little garden in front of it, filled with sweet flowers, large cabbage-roses, southernwood, rosemary, sweetbriar, and lavender. A Peep Behind the Scenes Thus he prattled, while I, to pay him for the southernwood, drew figures of the birds he knew best on the leaves I tore from my note- book and gave them to him. A Traveller in Little Things In one hand she carried a small bible, round which was folded her pocket handkerchief, and in the other a bunch of southernwood and rosemary. Malcolm She stepped forth among the flower-beds, stooping, in a passionate fervor, to the blossoms she could reach; but, coming back to the southernwood, she took it in her arms. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Prudy held a handful of southernwood to her nose, and smiled behind it. Dotty Dimple at Play Beverley says that is what they call it in Scotland, and I think it sounds so much more poetical than southernwood. The Story Girl There was the dry, stimulating dust and spice of heated pines from below; the languorous odors of syringa; the faint, feminine smell of southernwood, and the infinite mystery of silence. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's What the journalist intended to say here was that at least one of the aromatic herbs resembled sage, hyssop, wormwood, and southernwood, and that there were junipers and dwarf cedars. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 The "hyssop, or southernwood," the reader now knows to be the wild sage, or sage-brush. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 |
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