90 Words to use with sage

Behind the San Bernardino Range lies the wild "sage-brush country," bounded on the east by the Colorado River, and extending in a general northerly direction to Nevada and along the eastern base of the Sierra beyond Mono Lake.

A Sussex cure for ague is to eat sage leaves, fasting, nine mornings in succession; while Flemish folk-lore enjoins any one who has the ague to go early in the morning to an old willow, make three knots in one of its branches, and say "Good morrow, old one; I give thee the cold; good morrow, old one."

None of Mr. Roscoe's sage remarks, all so apposite, and coming in so clever, lest the reader should have had the trouble of drawing an inference.

Occasionally I scared up a flock of sage-hens or a jack-rabbit.

These are to be found in the so-called sage-knife, and the modern (French) pattern of drawing-knife.

Ah, gentle dames, it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!

Nor let any of my female readers suppose that the sage reflections which have just escaped me have the obliquest tendency of application to the young lady, who, it will be seen, is about to venture upon a change in her condition, at a mature and competent age, and not without the fullest approbation of all parties.

Lady Mary presently must have wished that she had followed this sage counsel.

Indeed, viewed comprehensively the entire Basin seems to be pretty evenly divided into level plains dotted with sage-bushes and mountain-chains covered with Nut Pines.

You must be covered up at once and have sage tea.

For what seemed a long time, I threaded the maze of cedar, galloped the open sage flats, always on Emett's track.

His arm commenced aching, and he came to the sage conclusion, before he was relieved from his task, that those who eat the custards are much better off than those who prepare them.

Henceforth its path lies through ancient moraines and reaches of ashy sage-plain, which nowhere afford rocks suitable for the development of cascades or sheer falls.

Section XXXVIII: "That the Great Charter ... and the Points which are doubtful in it be explained by the advice of the Baronage and of the Justices, and of other sage Persons of the Law."

"But wil our sage writers on law forever think by tradition?"Ib., p. 318.

130 He paused, and with a solemn tone, Thus made his sage opinion known: 'On carcases of every kind This maw hath elegantly dined; Provoked by luxury or need, On beast, on fowl, on man, I feed; Such small distinctions in the savour, By turns I choose the fancied flavour, Yet I must own (that human beast)

For her part, she believed, and she would not give the snap of her fingers for him if it were otherwise, that he was in reality, as sage historians have reported, the son of Julius.

"That hop-pole is really an ornament now, Nan; this sage-bed needs weeding,that's good work for you girls; and, now I think of it, you'd better water the lettuce in the cool of the evening, after I'm gone.

I pulled sage grass to cure for brooms.

But not in vain had he grown old: more than the white hairs on his head were the sage thoughts in his mind; his wrinkles and furrows were inscriptions that Time had graved, and in which he had written legends of wisdom that had been tested by the tenor of a life.

The principal speaker, as was meet on such an occasion was Mrs de Lacey, whose voice was often raised in sage admonitions and professional opinions blended in a manner that all would admire, though none of her sex, but they who had enjoyed the singular good fortune of sharing in the intimate confidence of a flag-officer, might ever hope to imitate.

I've pacèd much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: 'If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.' Is there, in human form, that bears a heart, A wretch!

The men uttered sage grunts of comprehension, but Koogah suddenly tossed back his hoary head.

Did we notify them of this sage view of ours when we borrowed their money?

"On my way to Jerusalem," said one sage adviser, "I passed through Rome, and asking questions of my host, I learned that a pope had once been slain for his intolerable pride!"

90 Words to use with  sage