She was a Duck of determination, and made a start by finding a cosy spot under some burdock plants and laying an egg before she went in swimming.
When the rain came, the burdock leaves kept off most of it, and the few drops which fell between the leaves rolled off the Duck's back without wetting her at all.
The burdock is one of the most striking and decorative of plants, and a good piece of it against a building or on a rough bank is just as useful as many plants that cost money and are difficult to grow.
I had a good clump of burdock under my study window, and it was a great comfort; but the man would persist in wanting to cut it down when he mowed the lawn.
Burdock root has quite a reputation among home practitioners among the white men as a diaphoretic, diuretic, alterative, aperient and depurative.
The Flambeau Ojibwe use the root of burdock as one of the ingredients of a medicine for pain in the stomach.
Friends he has none; and in point of hospitality and good breeding, our cousin Burdock is a prince in comparison of this ungracious miscreant, whose house is the lively representation of a gaol.
I knew I didn't need them burdock bitters all the time I was takin' 'em.
He emerged into the road in time to see the girl scramble out of a clump of brakes and burdock plants by the roadside, the tears standing in her eyes as she picked the burs from the latter out of the new dress.
No, I would let it go, and ask him for burdock or beet, as the case might be.
An ant had mounted the burdock leaf, and, careless of the drama that had just been enacted, sought eagerly among the crevices for provender.
He was laid in state on a large burdock leaf, where he stretched himself warily enough in the fervent heat of the sun.
Do you not think that there are some of our species at a great distance in the interior of the burdock forest?
We are provided with a house from our birth, and the burdock forest is planted for our sakes!
The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.
Jes make a tea of burdock root en add the citrate of potash to hit.
I cans cure scrofula wid burdock root and one half spoon of citrate of potash.
Hats and shawls were made of them—but best of all were the burdockleaf wigwams.
The warmest of fur overcoats was made of the ripenedburdock burs, while the furry fringed cup of the acorn made a cap that would have delighted the heart of any Eskimo.
The little Wests made whole villages of burdock wigwams with clothes-pin braves standing guard at the doors.
These were of the leaves of the burdock and much smaller than any he had ever seen—fit only for the homes of a pigmy tribe—and such it proved to be.
This was the story Tom told Grandpa, the lone traveler, when asked about his clothes-pin Indian village with its burdock wigwams.
To make these twigs or tent poles were stuck in the ground and burdock leaves folded round them in tent fashion.
A bushy burdock growing under the window close to the wall was also trampled.
A few twigs of the burdock were cut off, and carefully wrapped in paper by the investigators.
Some plants, as the burdock and clotbur, have fruits provided with tiny hooks which stick to the hair of animals, thus proving a means of transportation.
The ivy climbing up the wall, the morning-glory, the dandelion, and the burdock all show different arrangements of leaves, each presenting a large surface to the light.
Hearing what was up at school, an enterprising business man offered to give ten dollars to the squad of pupils who brought in the largest number of burdock plants.
The lecturer had a burdock plant brought in, a tremendous one, root and all, from the school yard.
The only time when burdock is weak is when it comes up as a seedling.
Has the burdock any vulnerable spot they wondered?
They had wandered off a little way, and, just as they were resting under some burdock leaves, in the shade, they heard voices talking.
So they stepped softly from under the burdock leaves, those three duck children did, and ran to grandpa's house as fast as they could, leaving the bad foxes in the woods.
So she took it off and laid it under a big burdock plant leaf near the pond, to keep the flowers and ribbons dry.
So Mrs. Wibblewobble put the hot tea in a tin pan, and covered it over with a burdock leaf, to keep the rain out, and then she put some cold potatoes in a dish, for she thought the old gentleman duck might like them as well.
Mooleyooly walked up to the burdock leaf, under which was the new bonnet, and Mooleyooly saw the pretty yellow flowers on it, and she saw the blue flowers on it and she saw the red flowers on it.
Buddy Pigg hiding under the burdock leaf, and trembling as hard as he could tremble.
Now Buddy Pigg was always a little afraid when he heard noises, especially in the woods, where he couldn't see what made them, so he crouched down under a burdock leaf in case there might be any danger.
Mr. Burdock gave Mr. Bobbsey directions how to find the cabin, and, as soon as the first streak of daylight showed, the lumber merchant and Sam set off in the big sled.
Henry Burdockproved a true weather prophet, for when the Bobbseys and the other got up the next morning the ground was covered with a mantle of newly-fallen snow, and more was sifting down from the clouds.
Mr. Bobbsey and Sam had searched as well as they could, and they were just going off to arouse some nearby farmers and make a more thorough hunt when Mr. Burdock came in.
Mr. Burdock had showed them where he kept his food, and the boys and girls enjoyed a midnight lunch, for it was now after twelve o'clock.
Occasionally the two older boys went on long tramps with Henry Burdock as he visited his traps.
Indeed, it seems too much to ask," spoke Dorothy, for Nan had whispered to her and Harry the details of the story of the missing money which Henry Burdock was suspected of taking.
My poor sister did not live very long, and when she died I took Henry Burdock to live with me.
Leaving the game he had shot, Henry Burdock started off again through the storm-swept woods, while Bert and the others made themselves at home in the cabin.
Nan thought what a pity it was that Snow Lodge could not be used, while Bert wondered what had happened between Henry Burdock and his uncle, Mr. Carford, that caused Henry to go away.
I don't believe Henry Burdock would entice our dog away," said Mr. Bobbsey, with a shake of his head.
The following day was so nice that Flossie and Freddie were allowed to go with Bert, Nan, Harry and Dorothy to the cabin of Henry Burdock to look for Snap.
So he went about all day looking very sober, and would not chase grasshoppers, play hide-and-seek under the big burdock leaves, or hunt the cricket with his sisters.
I'll step under that burdockleaf and wait till you are done," said Cocky; and Peck was too busy gobbling up the food to remember anything else.
There is a piece of mechanism in the end of each burdock seed that seems to make travel possible, and dissemination sure.
There are a certain number of plants which we always looked upon as weeds, such as burdock and wild carrot, for example.
Housekeepers should always dry leaves of the burdock and horseradish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burdock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
