All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.
Plutarch did not share the opinion of the Persians, but scornfully ranked cresses amongst the lowest aliments of the people.
When the cresses are nicely picked and well washed, put them into a stewpan with a little butter under them.
The cream may be omitted, and the cresses may be boiled in salt and water before they are rubbed through the sieve, and afterwards stewed, but it takes the strength out, therefore it is best not to boil them first.
The attitudes into which these efforts threw her body were as graceful as those into which the water threw the cresses by its ceaseless flow, or the wind bent the tree tops by its fitful gusts.
In her hand she carried a bunch of cressesstill dripping with the water of the brook.
The intelligent cultivator of this water-cress garden frequently has boarders from a distance, who reside with him that they may receive the full benefit of a diet of tender cresses fresh from the running water.
These bunches of cresses sell for fifteen cents apiece on the ground where they are grown.
Cresses can be grown with little trouble in pure water of the proper temperature; and as each bed is replanted but once a year, in the month of October, the yield is large and profitable.
Serve dry and hot with cresses or parsley laid around them.
Cut lettuces and cresseswith a sharp knife, and mix with the other vegetables in a bowl.
A nice dish of cold lamb, trimmed and garnished with cresses and cool, white lettuce, is goodly to the eyes—and taste—on a sultry June day.
Roast Fowls, garnished with Water-cresses and rolled Bacon.
If at hand, a few water-cresses may be placed round the turkey as a garnish, or it may be larded.
In the next meadow, only one fence between, a little spring of purest water ran through from the woodland; water-cresses used to grow there.
To make my hermit-home complete, I brought clear water from the spring Praised in its own low murmuring, And cresses glossy wet.
The cresses on the water and the sorrels are at hand, And the cuckoo 's calling daily his note of music bland, And the bold thrush sings so bravely his song i' the forests grand, On the fair hills of holy Ireland.
Rocket and Garden Cresses must be sowne in February, in a new Moone.
In the next meadow, only one fence between, a little spring of purest water ran through from the woodland; water cresses used to grow there.
Let's get some water-cresses and take home," said Phil.
Brook-lime and Water-Cresses are generally used together in diet-drink, with other things serving to purge the blood and body from all ill humours that would destroy health, and are helpful to the scurvy.
OUR ordinary Water Cresses spread forth with many weak, hollow, sappy stalks, shooting out fibres at the joints and upwards long winged leaves made of sundry broad sappy almost round leaves, of a brownish colour.
Oh yes; the same that winds along near the foot of Bare Hill, where the water-cresses grow.
She found a spot around the base of one of the supports of the trestle where the cresses grew thickest, and plucked a couple of handfuls, washing them in the creek and pinning them up in her handkerchief.
She imagined herself a belated traveller, a poor girl, an outcast, quenching her thirst at the wayside brook, her little packet ofcresses doing duty for a bundle of clothes.
As Hilma descended into the gravel flats and thickets of willows underneath the trestle, she decided that she would gather some cresses for her supper that night.
She remembered her long walks toward the Mission late in the afternoons, her excursions for cresses underneath the Long Trestle, the crowing of the cocks, the distant whistle of the passing trains, the faint sounding of the Angelus.
Her hands trembled as she pressed the bundle ofcresses into a hard ball between her palms.
The dish may be garnished with cresses or young lettuce leaves; or lettuce leaves and boiled beets cut into fancy shapes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
