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Example sentences for "buckthorn"

Lexicographically close words:
buckram; bucks; buckshot; buckskin; buckskins; buckwheat; bucolic; bud; budded; budders
  1. Brussels Brown rather than Buckthorn Brown color of upper parts, in absence rather than presence of white frontal spot continuous with color of underparts, in basilar length of less than 44 in males and 39.

  2. Argus Brown rather than Buckthorn Brown color of upper parts and distance from anterior margin of tympanic bulla to foramen ovale more, rather than less, than four-fifths of height of tympanic bulla.

  3. Buckthorn Brown or tone 3 to 4 of Snuff Brown of Oberthuer and Dauthenay, pl.

  4. Raw Umber rather than Buckthorn Brown) and less intensely colored underparts that are Sulphur Yellow, Colonial Buff or Primrose Yellow rather than Buff Yellow; from M.

  5. Buckthorn Brown rather than Argus Brown color of upper parts, distance from anterior margin of tympanic bulla to foramen ovale less, rather than more, than four-fifths height of tympanic bulla; from M.

  6. Brussels Brown rather than Buckthorn Brown color of upper parts; from M.

  7. Sudan Brown to near (l) Antique Brown rather than Buckthorn Brown colors of upper parts and greater size, and in adult male basilar length more than 45 and hind foot more than 47; from M.

  8. Sea-buckthorn is Hippophae rhamnoides, a willow-like shrub, 1 to 8 ft.

  9. It is distinguished from buckthorn by the absence of spiny branchlets, its non-serrated leaves, and bisexual flowers with parts in fives.

  10. Buckthorn juice (succus rhamni), "the juice of the fruit of Rhamnus catharticus (Linn.

  11. Syrup of buckthorn is a brisk but unpleasant cathartic.

  12. The syrup of buckthorn was tried, but the fourth dose of that it was impossible to give.

  13. If the under sides of the leaves of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus) or of the berry-bearing alder (R.

  14. Early winter and early spring one may have sight or track of deer and bear and bighorn, cougar and bobcat, about the thickets of buckthorn on open slopes between the black pines.

  15. The roar of the stream fills up the morning and evening intervals, and at night the deer feed in the buckthorn thickets.

  16. It was more beautiful than the others; it was a buckthorn tree, but the old man did not know it.

  17. The buckthorn branches whipped and scraped against his skin, but he did not seem to mind.

  18. The sagebrush began to fail from the slopes, and buckthorn to grow up tall and thicker; the wind brought them a long sigh from the lowest pines.

  19. The common Buckthorn grows in our woods and thickets, and used to be popularly known because of the purgative syrup made from its juice and berries.

  20. This Spice was formerly added to our syrup of buckthorn to prevent it from griping.

  21. This black Buckthorn is a slender shrub, which occurs in our woods and thickets.

  22. The old-fashioned Cathartic Buckthorn of our hedges and woods has spinous thorny branchlets, from which its name, Rhamnus, is thought to be derived, because the shrub is set with thorns like as the ram.

  23. Dodoeus taught about Buckthorn berries: "They be not meet to be administered but to young and lusty people of the country, which do set more store of their money than their lives.

  24. The name Buckthorn is from the German buxdorn, boxthorn, hartshorn.

  25. Chemically the active principle of the Buckthorn is "rhamno-cathartine.

  26. Lozenges also of the Alder Buckthorn are dispensed under the name of "Aperient Fruit Lozenges;" one, or perhaps two, being taken for a dose as required.

  27. This abuse may be discovered by opening the berries: those of buckthorn have almost always four seeds; of the alder, two; and of the dogberry, only one.

  28. Buckthorn berries, bruised on white paper, stain it of a green colour, which the others do not.

  29. A mixture of the berries of the buckthorn and blackberry bearing alder, and of the dogberry tree, may be seen publicly exposed for sale by some of the venders of medicinal herbs.

  30. On the south side of the garden, against a low buckthorn hedge is a narrower border of sky-blue belladonna, delphinium, buttercups and achillea, with an edging of Chinese pinks.

  31. From the filtered expressed juice of buckthorn berries.

  32. Mr Clark says syrup of buckthorn for dogs should be made with treacle, and the spices omitted.

  33. A very fugitive pigment, prepared from the juice of buckthorn berries.

  34. Two of the boys held her, and the third carried a torch of buckthorn or hawthorn in front of her,(637) probably for the purpose of averting the powers of evil; for buckthorn or hawthorn was credited with this magical virtue.

  35. Crab } by reason of a thick-growth { Buckthorn } and repellant thorns and spines.

  36. Color: Upper parts Buckthorn Brown grading over the sides and flanks to Light Buff on the underparts; chin white; nose and postauricular patches grayish black.

  37. Sap green is the inspissated juice of buckthorn berries.

  38. Mrs. Grady, the restaurant cook said, "I became alarmed when Mrs. Buckthorn did not appear as usual at the restaurant this morning and went to her home to find her.

  39. Inquiry showed that Mrs. Buckthorn had drawn $250 from the First National Bank yesterday and her daughter, Mrs. J.

  40. Samuel Benson, cashier of the First Na- tional, is sure that the two 100-dollar bills which were found on Johnson are the same bills that he gave to Mrs. Buckthorn yesterday afternoon.

  41. Mrs. Buckthorn was sixty years old and the widow of one of the oldest settlers in the city.

  42. Mrs. Buckthorn was found dead in her bed, in a pool of blood, with two bullet holes in her head this morning.

  43. Abundant is the growth of the buckthorn and shrubby trees, Supplying firewood; yea, stores of it[1].

  44. God surveyed the hills, Where the oaks and the buckthorn were thinned, And paths made through the firs and cypresses.

  45. One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.

  46. The Purging Buckthorn is distinguished by its stiff habit, and by some of the leaves being gathered into bundles at the ends of the shoots.

  47. The name Buckthorn appears to be due to an ancient misunderstanding of the German name Buxdorn, which should have been translated Box-thorn.

  48. Our two native species of Buckthorn are shrubs of from five to ten feet in height.

  49. Until the autumn the Spindle, we fear, is rarely recognized as such, but gets confused with Buckthorn and Dogwood.

  50. Formerly they were much used as a purging medicine, but of so violent a character that their use has come to be discouraged, and the safer syrup of Buckthorn is prescribed instead.

  51. We were very glad when General Buckthorn was appointed to the command of the Nineteenth Army Corps, so that Jenny could get permission for herself and me to come and visit you.

  52. It is in that letter that General Buckthorn gave you.

  53. Buckthorn | 8-16 | White |Indifferent|This and No.


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