43 examples of burdock in sentences

Before the ugly machine and between it and the road which ran past the pond to the village was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, plantain and such unsightly vegetation, which seemed to find something congenial in the soil that bore an instrument for the torture of the gentler sex; but on one side of the post and leaning against it was a wild rosebush covered with fragrant flowers.

Some masters offer a shoulder as a support for a pupil's left hand, and some face toward the horse's head and some toward his tail, so it is best for you to wait a little for directions, Esmeralda, and not to suppose that, because you know all about Lucy Fountain's way of mounting a horse, or about James Burdock's tuition of Mabel Vane, there is no other method of putting a lady in the saddle.

Other seeds are disseminated by animals; of these some attach themselves to their hair or feathers by a gluten, as misleto; others by hooks, as cleavers, burdock, hounds-tongue; and others are swallowed whole for the sake of the fruit, and voided uninjured, as the hawthorn, juniper, and some grasses.

There is a photographer established in every considerable village,nay, one may not unfrequently see a photographic ambulance standing at the wayside upon some vacant lot where it can squat unchallenged in the midst of burdock and plantain and apple-Peru, or making a long halt in the middle of a common by special permission of the "Selectmen.

The dandelion, the buttercup, duckweed, celandine, mullein, burdock, yarrow, whiteweed, nightshade, and most of the thistles,these are importations.

and she sat down beside a burdock plant.

Now Buddy Pigg was always a little afraid when he heard noises, especially in the woods, where he couldn't see what made them, so he crouched down under a burdock leaf in case there might be any danger.

if he didn't spy poor Buddy Pigg hiding under the burdock leaf, and trembling as hard as he could tremble.

" "Why certainly, take it right along, children!" exclaimed a voice from under a burdock leaf, and then out flew the kind, old June bug.

And be sure and put down rue for the heart; and burdock, 'tis splendid for the liver.

We had a brave ramble through Fulham meadows, father discoursing of the virtues of plants, and how many a poor knave's pottage would be improved if he were skilled in the properties of burdock and old man's pepper.

" "But if I am a sensitive-plant, as you say, I can't help it; if I were a burdock, I might.

BURDOCK, EUGENE I. The Gallic War of Julius Caesar.

Translated into English by Eugene I. Burdock.

BURDOCK, EUGENE I. The Gallic War of Julius Caesar.

Translated into English by Eugene I. Burdock.

I cans cure scrofula wid burdock root and one half spoon of citrate of potash.

Jes make a tea of burdock root en add the citrate of potash to hit.

A bushy burdock growing under the window close to the wall was also trampled.

A few twigs of the burdock were cut off, and carefully wrapped in paper by the investigators.

The trousers reminded him of the dark blue threads found on the burdock.

After you had smothered him, and saw that he had ceased breathing, you and Nicholas pulled him out through the window and laid him down near the burdock.

Burdock - - - Arctium Lappa.

Even the humble burdock weeds and sunflowers lining the path that led to the gate seemed to be exalted by the breath of the morning air, and not out of harmony with the fine, high chord of ecstasy that was stirring the soul of things.

At the close of twilight, Jimmy Sears came up the hard-beaten path that led to his home, through burdock weeds and sunflowers.

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