354 examples of saffron in sentences

If the colour be yellow, then there are substances of all shades of this hue, from saffron and pickled salmon to brimstone and straw.

Let fry a few minutes; then add 2 quarts of soup-stock seasoned with salt, white pepper and a little saffron to taste.

The company was mainly of young men, but three ladiesthe mistresses of Arlington and Cobwell Manors, and Elspeth in a new saffron gownvaried with their laces the rich coats of the men.

The active ingredient of a no less celebrated preparation for the same complaint, the Eau médicinale de Husson, a medicine brought into fashion by M. de Husson, a military officer in the service of Louis XVI has been discovered to be the meadow saffron.

On an inquiry being immediately set on foot for the discovery of this unknown plant, a specimen of it was procured at Constantinople, and it actually did turn out to be a species of meadow saffron, the colchicum autumnale of Linnaeus.

Autumnal Meadow-saffron.

The products of the Philippine Islands consist of sugar, coffee, hemp, indigo, rice, tortoise-shell, hides, ebony, saffron-wood, sulphur, cotton, cordage, silk, pepper, cocoa, wax, and many other articles.

He was a dumpy, good-natured-looking Hanoverian with patchy saffron whiskers sprouting out on him.

The western sky was all a deep saffron pinkthe color of a salmon's bellyand we could hear the constant blaspheming of the big siege guns, taking up the evening cannonade along the center.

A fertile soil, good air, &c. Tin, Lead, Wool, Saffron, &c. 539.

H. vulgare hyssopifolium bears reddish flowers, but the colouring varies considerably, and saffron is not uncommon.

When we read that the bracelet was made of steel wire, with the points specially sharpened, and the whole so clamped on to the arm that it could never come off, but had to be cut away after death, we might suppose that we had reached the world where Yogi and Sanyasi wander in the saffron robe, or sit besmeared with ashes, contemplating the eternal verities, unmoved by outward things.

"It is composed of conserve of roses, gillyflowers, borage, candied citron, powder of laetificans Galeni, Roman zedoary, doronicum, and saffron.

MORRIS (W.), in his Atalanta's Race, renders the Greek word Saophron "safron," and says: She the saffron gown will never wear, And in no flower-strewn couch shall she be laid; i.e. she will never be a bride.

=Song of the Bees= We watch for the light of the morn to break, And color the eastern sky With its blended hues of saffron and lake; Then say to each other, "Awake! awake!

Ivy reaches up and climbs About its lip, gilt here and there with sprays Of woodbine, that enwreathed about it flaunts Her saffron fruitage.

The saffron heavens had changed to purple, and in the spire of the village campanile a bell tolled solemnly the strokes of Philidor's doom.

The more conscientious he is, the more he becomes like Lucian's amateur, who was so much occupied in rubbing the bindings of his books with sandal-wood and saffron, that he had no time left to study the contents.

Away on either side of us the fields were streaked with long rays of brilliant yellow where saffron grew as though the sun had split bars of molten metal there, and below the hillside the pear-blossom and cherry- blossom which bloomed in deserted orchards lay white and gleaming like snow on the Swiss peaks in summer.

And Toni's hairy countenance would break into a greedy smile, seeing in anticipation the famous restaurant of the port, its twilight shadows smelling of shell-fish and spicy sauces, and upon the table the deep dish of fish with its succulent broth tinged with saffron.

Joseph, as the earthly sposo, wears the saffron-coloured mantle over a gray tunic.

"And this wicked saffron glow is precisely the color to throw on it.

The young merchant already lay in bed, enveloped in his chalk-white night-cap and saffron yellow night-shirt of sanitary flannel.

His favourite companion, a saffron cat, was playing with the wire.

Shall you be frightened, I wonder?" "No, I believe not," she answered as she took possession of her violets, and stroked the saffron cat.

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