Near Peronne, in the French department of Somme, people used to go out fasting before sunrise on St. John's Day to cull the plant; put among the wheat in the barn it protected the corn against mice.
Among the simples which the Czechs and Moravians of Silesia cull at this season are dandelions, ribwort, and the bloom of the lime-tree.
In the Vosges Mountains they say that wizards have but one day in the year, and but one hour in that day, to find and cull the baleful herbs which they use in their black art.
To him who was lucky enough to cull it the flower revealed all the treasures of the earth, and it made him rich, oh so rich and so happy!
But in order to attain these results two conditions had to be observed; first, you must be fasting when you gathered the herbs, and second, you must cull them before the sun rose.
When selling my own, I always priced a choice of my cattle at a reasonable figure, or offered to cull out the same number at half the price.
To-morrow We must with all our main of power stand fast; And here's a lord-come knights from east to west And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best.
Like a shepherd Approach the fold and cull th' infected forth, But kill not all together.
Our cannon shall be bent Against the brows of this resisting town; Call for our chiefest men of discipline, To cull the plots of best advantages.
For thou hadst not the true odour of a philosopher so long as thou didst not cull beauty of conduct from thy philosophic knowledge.
Cull thy flowers, darling girl, and cull the flower of thy youth, the flower that grows but once for all like thee, the flower whose glory puts high heaven to shame, and whose odour makes mad the most wise.
What wild words are these, O wisest of women, and what this rending and scattering abroad, and showers of blood and croaking of Byves because I cull a flower in the forest?
But that thou mayst yet clearlier understand, Give ear unto my words, and thou shalt cull Some fruit may please thee well, from this delay.
What am I, and what is he Who can cull and tear a heart, As one might a rose for sport In its royalty?
She sate herself beside his writhen limbs, And held a cup to cull the venomed dew Which flamed the scowling blackness as it fell.
Apple, cherry, and other fruit breeders would not dream of crossing common scrub cull fruit trees and expect any degree of success.
I think all of you who have more than one type of chestnut in your plantings shouldcull them all down to the pure Castanea mollissima.
Mr. Chase: "It required over 2 weeks with 4 to 6 persons to crack and cull out the ones we knew were not worth further consideration.
Now that these seedlings are beginning to bear we are able to cull out any that prove to be very inferior.
So cull the blossoms from the bough Where birds so gayly sing; We'll wreathe them for our queen's pure brow, We'll wreathe them for our king.
I will cull from the entertaining narrative of Mrs. Davis certain occurrences of his army life which are characteristic.
Suppose a diligent worker to cull from newspaper files, law reports, and what he hears in talk, the cases in which one party to a marriage has cruelly mistreated the other.
Cull received £50 for capturing the woman, and a further sum of £15 for her maintenance.
Cull heard that such an opinion was entertained, and expressed a strong desire to "get hold of the fellow who said he had murdered the Indian woman.
His visits to Florence offered fresh inspirations, and taught him to ingraft upon the conventionalities of Christian art, whatever his keen sense of beauty could cull from the creations of beneficent Nature.
I stooped upon the pebbly strand, To cull the toys that ’round me lay, But as I took them in my hand, I threw them one by one away.
I saw a fair child bend her beautiful head, And cull the lone flowers that bloom o’er the dead, To form a pure simple wreath.
The roses crept around the slab and hid The graven name -- and still we sometimes cull Her sweet, white roses, and we place them on Our Chapel-Altar.
