When the jackal saw the man, he cut the onion stem and escaped the first of all.

cried Mr. Raleigh, removing the stem from his lips; "how came you here?" "Lors, Massa, it's only me," said Capua.

The thought brought him to his feet, though he had to throw his arm round the stem of the palm tree to steady his swimming head.

The violence of the surf had completely beaten her sides out, leaving stem and stern hanging together as by a thread, while her ribs and broken cordage and sails, completed the picture, had any thing been wanting to perfect it.

I have so many nettles to root up in the vineyard, because those whose duty it was to do it only pulled off the stems, and I was obliged to draw the roots with much difficulty out of a stony soil.'

The sun-flower follows the course of the sun by nutation, not by twisting its stem.

She picked a stem which had a cluster of red berries on it, and below the berries one tiny pink blossom.

The tree shoots up a column-like stem to the height of a hundred feet, and is crowned with a tuft of broad leaves about twelve feet long.

" Gordon had been turning the stem of a wineglass slowly between his thumb and his finger while the others were talking, and looking down at it smiling.

Now there stood near them a slender, beautiful rose bush; but a wicked hand had broken the stem, so that all the branches, covered with half-opened buds, were hanging drooping around, quite withered.

God bless her! (He drains the glass, then breaks it against the pole of the tent, and throws away the stem.)

Monsieur Power chewed a grass stem and smiled in a fashion a little narquois.

We are also informed by Villars that the children in Dauphiné universally eat the stems and leaves of the young plant before the flowers appear, with great avidity.

BLUE FLOWER Blue flower waving in the wind, Say whose blue eyes Lift up your swaying fragile stem To the blue skies.

In the tulip the caudex lies below the bulb; from whence proceed the fibrous roots and the new bulbs; and I suspect the tulip-root, after it has flowered, dies like the orchis-root; for the stem of the last year's tulip lies on the outside, and not in the center of the new bulb; which I am informed does not happen in the three or four first years when raised from seed, when it only produces a stem, and slender leaves without flowering.

The gentlemen snapped the stems of their glasses to honour the sacredness of the toast, and there was such a shouting and pledging as might well have turned a girl's head.

I am going to jerk the stems off of berries, chop the pits out of cherries, and skin peaches.

This can be shown by marking the stem and roots of a young seedling with ink.

Nearer again, long lines of flat tide-rock, glittering and quivering in the heat, sloped gradually under the waves, till they ended in half-sunken beds of olive oar-weed, which bent their tangled stems into a hundred graceful curves, and swayed to and fro slowly and sleepily.

They were talking and laughing, the man I had sent the message to lightly fingering the stem of his wine-glass, and blowing thin spirals of cigarette smoke into the air.

Not even the most experienced woodman or botanist can tell you the names of plants of which he only sees the stems.

When the apparatus is in motion, the twine unwinds from the spool, and winds around the rod that carries the flowers, and twists about and holds every stem.

Compare again the corm of Crocus and the bulb of Onion to find the stem in each.

It is distinguished from the American elm by its bark, which is darker and much more broken; by having one principal stem, which soars upward to a great height; and by its branches, which are thrown out more boldly and abruptly and at a larger angle.

A dull but crafty old eye squinting down the stem assured itself that the tobacco was well alight before the match was thrown away.