Say that he stands four feet and a nail high by his own yard-measure, which, like the sceptre of Agamemnon, shall never sprout again, still, you have no adequate idea; nor when I tell you that his dear hump, which I have favored in the picture, seems to me of the buffalo,indicative and repository of mild qualities, a budget of kindnesses,still, you have not the man.

What must strike every observer with surprise is, how nuts and shells, which we can hardly crack with our teeth, or even with a hammer, will divide of themselves, and make way for the little tender sprout which proceeds from the kernel.

Have ready 1/2 pint of white sauce, made by recipe No. 538; dish the artichokes, pour over them the sauce, and place between each a fine Brussels sprout: these should be boiled separately, and not with the artichokes.

To keep potatoes for a considerable time, the best way is to place them in thin layers on a platform suspended in an ice-cellar: there, the temperature being always below that of active vegetation, they will not sprout; while, not being above one or two degrees below the freezing-point, the tubers will not be frostbitten.

My visual ray with thy dark face of ill! Let earth give back the footprints that I wore, That the bare grass I spoiled may sprout again; And Echo, now grown deaf, my cries return!

It was a long while since he had passed that way, and he had never thought that the seed would sprout so thickly, for he had repeated a hundred times that nothing would germinate, so rotten was all the land.

Germ (Lat. germen, a sprout, bud).

As a Consequence of this Original, all Passions are in all Men, but all appear not in all; Constitution, Education, Custom of the Country, Reason, and the like Causes, may improve or abate the Strength of them, but still the Seeds remain, which are ever ready to sprout forth upon the least Encouragement.

If I get pulled up violently by the roots, if I have my earthly possessions pruned away, I always hurry as fast as I can, take root in a new place, and proceed to sprout a new crop of possessions which fix me there.

The spirit that essays in master flights To sip the honey from Parnassus' heights, That daily doth his Pegasus bestride And keeps the War from spoiling on the side, Fails to be fostered by the sensuous sprout Or with horse carrots blow its waistcoat out.

"Mr. Gibbs"he said as he wrote"I have the sprout of a notion that you and Mr. Lafontaine would be an ornament to a field-battery I'm about to take command of.

The renowned investigator Moggridge repeatedly observed that when the ants were prevented from reaching their magazines of grain, the seeds begun to sprout.

Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie. SPROUT, HAROLD.

Toward a new order of sea power; American naval policy and the world scene, 1918-1922, by Harold & Margaret Sprout.

Harold Sprout & Margaret Sprout (A); 30Jan68; R431507.

Harold Sprout & Margaret Sprout (A); 30Jan68; R431507.

SPROUT, MARGARET.

SEE Sprout, Harold.

Allow one sprout to each tuber or set, rubbing off the rest.

If sown too early on cold, wet ground, the seed is apt to rot; when sown too shallow in a dry time, there may not be sufficient moisture to cause it to sprout.

I sit comfortably in it, and travel slowlytime being non-existentso slowly that I can watch the wheat sprout, and gaze at the birds and the view and the clouds.

The grain is beginning to sprout in tender green about the graves, which have been put in even better order than when I first saw them.

On warm days flowers began to sprout and the buds on the fruit-trees to swell.

Then said his son to him, "Here be branches which were cut from a green tree, and are not yet wholly dried up: soon they will sprout forth again.

This society of the future was not slow to sprout and grow in the midst of that feudal system so turbulent, so oppressive, so detested.