It is not an unusual thing to find a sunflower stalk in the prairies rising from a height of eight to ten feet; here they grow like dandelions in the grass, yet retaining all their characteristics of form and color.

When he had nearly passed the bush he thought he heard a movement and a thick stalk of the cactus shook.

Occasionally a caravan of laden camels stalk gravely through the alleys, scattering the yelling crowd right and left, only to reassemble the moment it has passed, like water in the wake of a ship.

With a sharp knife take off a small slice from the stalk end.

When it must be kept for some time, see that it is in a shady, cool place, and an hour or two before using; remove any tough or withered leaves, split up the stalk well into the heart, if to be used whole, and lay in a large basin of cold water.

Cut the stalk off quite bare, and trim the leaves with scissors where necessary.

With a rifle in his hand, a general knowledge of the surrounding forest, and a couple of gillies, give him the wind of a royal stag feeding amongst his hinds, and despite the feminine jealousy and instinctive vigilance of the latter, an hour's stalk would put the lord of the hills at the mercy of Dick Stanmore.

She wanted intensely to escape from this phantom whom she herself had called up from the void to stalk at her side.

Incidentally, such an arrangement would have enabled her to stalk a husband, a moneyed husband, which did not occur to her at all.

It is a hardy biennial, with a thick stalk, from eighteen inches to four feet high, and with very peculiar large woolly and mucilaginous leaves, and a long flower spike with ugly yellow and nearly sessile flowers.

In our absence the tide had been slowly creeping up on reeds and rushes, had reached its height, and (leaving a brown, bubbly line upon each slender stalk to show that the law had been fulfilled) had started slowly down again.

* * BLOODROOT "Hast thou loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?" Beech-trees, stretching their arms, rugged, yet beautiful, Here shade meadow and brook; here the gay bobolink, High poised over his mate, pours out his melody.

His stalk the dark delphinium.

Jack and the bean stalk.

Stalk the hunter.

Hi celery: Let's stalk!

And then I powerfully blew the Panchajanya obtained from the waters and graceful as the lotus-stalk and white as milk or the Kunda flower or the moon or silver.

Resembling the full moon, of unchanging youth, of well-rounded breasts, illumining all sides by her splendour, possessed of large eyes like beautiful lotuses, like unto Kama's Rati herself the delight of all the worlds like the rays of the full moon, O, she looketh like a lotus-stalk transplanted by adverse fortune from the Vidarbha lake and covered with mire in the process.

Indeed, this girl, of a delicate frame and of lovely limbs, and deserving to dwell in a mansion decked with gems, is (now) like an uprooted lotus-stalk scorched by the sun.

But where is now the snowy white, And where the tender red? How heavy over each dry stalk Droops every languid head!

A tiny bird flitted past and perched on the dry, dead stalk of a yucca.

When she talked to you in return, she talked all over; with quiet, refined radiations of life and pleasure in each involuntary turn and gesture; the blossom of her face lifted and swayed like that of a flower delicately poised upon its stalk.

For years he tried to stalk it and kill it, and so did other hunters.

When our plans were settled we felt in pretty good spirits again, and one of the boys got up a sort of corn-stalk fiddle which made a squeaking noise and in a little while there was a sort of mixed American and Indian dance going on in which the squaws joined in and we had a pretty jolly time till quite late at night.

Such a brush is also most serviceable for washing celery, as the corrugated surface of the stalk makes a thorough cleaning with the hands a difficult operation.