9 Verbs to Use for the Word nettles

I saw her gather the stinging nettles that grow there.

Other utterances by public men, such as Mr. Roosevelt and our own Prime Minister, might be cited in the same sense; but Professor Murray's has been chosen because he has had the courage to grasp the nettle.

But Tilda, with the book in her pocket, decided that here was the very spot for hera real house in which to practise the manners and deportment of a real lady, and she resolved to borrow or steal a hook after dinner and clear the nettles away.

The tarantass entered the court-yard, crushing the nettles under its wheels, and stopped before the portico.

There, on the river-side, you may admire the gigantic pepper-trees, or the silvery leaves of the Calathea, the lofty bamboo, or the fragrant Pothos, the curious Cyclanthus, or frowning nettles, some of the latter from ten to twelve feet high.

Georgia was to press down the nettle stems with a stick, while I cut them off and hoed up the roots.

Violets were very scarce; we used to search very carefully for them every morning, round by the orchard hedge, and Sarah used to carry a stick in her hand to beat away the nettles; for very frequently the hens left their eggs among the nettles.

" A curious phrase current in Devonshire for a young lady who jilts a man is, "She has given him turnips;" and an expressive one for those persons who in spite of every kindness are the very reverse themselves is this: "Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you;" With which may be compared a similar proverb equally suggestive: "He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

I saw her break up the nettles.

9 Verbs to Use for the Word  nettles