144 examples of cowslip in sentences

To make COWSLIP WINE.

To make COWSLIP WINE.

To make COWSLIP SYRRUP.

Take two quarts of cowslip peeps, a slip of balm, two sprigs of rosemary, a stick of cinnamon, half an orange peel, half a lemon peel, a pint of brandy, and a pint of ale; lay all these to steep twelve hours, then distil them on a cold still.

COWSLIP WINE another Way.

Cockles, to pickle Cordial Water of Cowslips, to make Cowslip Syrup, do.

Cockayne would derive cowslip from cu, cow, and slyppe, lip, and cow-wheat is so nicknamed from its seed resembling wheat, but being worthless as food for man.

The garden Jerusalem cowslip (Pulmonaria offinalis) owes its English name, lungwort, to the spotting of the leaves, which were said to indicate that they would be efficacious in healing diseases of the lungs.

For improving the complexion, an ointment made of cowslip-flowers was once recommended, because, as an old writer observes, it "taketh away the spots and wrinkles of the skin, and adds beauty exceedingly."

Mr. Burgess, in his handy little volume on "English Wild Flowers" (1868, 47), referring to the cowslip, says, "the village damsels use it as a cosmetic, and we know it adds to the beauty of the complexion of the town-immured lassie when she searches for and gathers it herself in the early spring morning."

Then there is "Our Lady's comb," with its long, fragile seed-vessels resembling the teeth of a comb, while the cowslip is "Our Lady's bunch of keys."

As an antidote for fevers the carnation was prescribed, and the cowslip, and the hop, have the reputation of inducing sleep.

492) says that in East Sussex, on the borders of Kent, "the cowslip is quite unknown, but nightingales are as common as blackberries there.

In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favors, In those freckles live their savors: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

In the charming seclusion of Cowslip Green she wrote her treatise on the "Manners of the Great;" the first of that series in which she rebuked the fashions and follies of the day.

Compare Midsummer Nights Dream, ii. 1, 15: "And hang a pearl on every cowslip's ear.

It is good overnight to anoint the face with hare's blood, and in the morning to wash it with strawberry and cowslip water, the juice of distilled lemons, juice of cucumbers, or to use the seeds of melons, or kernels of peaches beaten small, or the roots of Aron, and mixed with wheat bran to bake it in an oven, and to crumble it in strawberry water, or to put fresh cheese curds to a red face.

" Our cowslip is the English marsh-marigold.

Cowslip and Polyanthus, 361.

"Only children!" repeated the old witch who was pouring out cowslip wine.

One day I cooked a delicious mess of cowslip greens with a ham-bone.

Now the bright Morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose Hail bounteous-May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale do boast thy blessing.

The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose[060] The poet in the manuscript of his Lycidas had at first made the primrose "die unwedded," which was a pretty close copy of Shakespeare.

It shall be Amongst thy raven tresses, Cytheris, Like one star on the bosom of the night The cowslip and the yellow primrose,they Are gone, my sad Leontia, to their graves, And April hath wept o'er them, and the voice Of March hath sung, even before their deaths The dirge of those young children of the year

The Witch-hazel indicates a spell,the Cape Jasmine says I'm too happythe Laurestine, I die if I am neglectedthe American Cowslip, You are a divinitythe Volkamenica Japonica, May you be happythe Rose-colored Chrysanthemum, I love,and the Venus' Car, Fly with me.

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