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Example sentences for "chickweed"

Lexicographically close words:
chicken; chickenpox; chickens; chickie; chicks; chicle; chicory; chid; chidden; chide
  1. Mother told me it grew as a matter of course in married life, like chickweed in a garden.

  2. Love grows among married folk, like chickweed in a garden.

  3. Prizes are given for the [226] biggest and heaviest berries, which are produced with immense pains as to manuring, and the growth of cool chickweed around the roots of the bushes.

  4. Chickweed himself keeps on shouting, all the time, like mad.

  5. He was smoking his pipe here, late at night, when all of a sudden Chickweed roars out, "Here he is!

  6. Chickweed and Duckweed have been so called from being favourite food for poultry.

  7. Chickweed must be sowne in February or March, in the full of the Moone.

  8. In the liquid are placed some stalks of the common chickweed or purslane (Cerastium vulgatum) which, from the appearance of its red fleshy stalks, is supposed to have some connection with worms.

  9. It was a castle of turrets grey, All nettles and chickweed inside; Where the wind did howl the livelong day, And the livelong night beside.

  10. Nor the wind day and night could her astound, Nor the nettles and chickweed that grew on the ground.

  11. An old maid stood at the window; she had hung chickweed over the cage, and the little linnet which it contained hopped from perch to perch and sang and twittered merrily.

  12. The caterpillar may be observed on sunny banks, generally feeding on chickweed (Stellaria media) but sometimes on various other low-growing weeds, including the dock and the dandelion.

  13. Except during the most cruel frosts, there is scarcely a day in the year when we may not find the little star-like chickweed flowers.

  14. Then on the Chickweed and the Bird's-eye Speedwell there are lines of rather long, flexible hairs which at first sight appear to be of no use at all.

  15. Now one chickweed can produce 3000 seeds.

  16. The Chickweed and some other of our annual weeds show a hardy disregard of climate.

  17. Defn: A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.

  18. Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and C.

  19. There never was such a gentleman for objecting to being dusted, and the way those big books of his that he presses his bits of chickweed and groundsel in do hold the dust is awful.

  20. He's collecting chickweed and `grundsel,' as Mrs Brade calls it, somewhere.

  21. Lettuce, chickweed and other green food, always agree with it, and even the berries of the juniper tree.

  22. The Mouse-eared Chickweed is not such a feeble, straggling plant as the Common Chickweed.

  23. The Chickweed leaves are oval, with smooth edges, and they grow in pairs up the stem.

  24. The Chickweed is a feeble, straggling plant, and it grows in an untidy mass near the ground.

  25. The other is the Field Mouse-ear Chickweed (C.

  26. The branched fibrous root, as that of the Chickweed and Grasses.

  27. One of these is the Broad-leaved or Clustered Mouse-ear Chickweed (Cerastium glomeratum), which flowers from April to the end of the summer.

  28. He was smoking his pipe here late at night, when all of a sudden Chickweed roars out—‘Here he is!

  29. Chickweed himself keeps on shouting all the time, like mad.

  30. Jem Spyers dashes out; and there he sees Chickweed tearing down the street full-cry.

  31. In mentioning the name of an animal or plant, the name of the genus is always used with that of the species; thus, the name of Chickweed is Stellaria media.

  32. The slight prominence of the foramen can also often be distinguished, as in the seed of chickweed (Pl.

  33. The embryonal structures are very difficult of detection; but it happens that in our little chickweed they are more easily dissected out than in most other plants.

  34. Found chickweed and knawel in bloom, and an old garden was full of fresh-looking pansies.

  35. Chickweed Dick was gone; but he only gave place to one Chucky, who drew a donkey-cart to the door, and brought in a basket of red sand.

  36. I'm blest if there'll be a bit of country soon, or a blessed scrap of chickweed or grunsel, or a tuff to cut anywheres.


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