Close to the hedge are some gooseberry and currant bushes, and into these the Bindweed has climbed.
See how tightly the Bindweed stems are twisted round the boughs of this currant bush.
Dropping the paper box and the hand-bag, he toiled from the sand to a first narrow ledge, from there to the currant bushes, and thence higher, by relying for a foothold upon snake holes and crevices.
Low down were scattered clumps of wild black currantand clusters of coral-berry.
Thank you ever so much for taking me to see the currant picking.
You shall be punished by staying home tomorrow while I take Zoe to thecurrant picking.
Zoe helped her aunt with the picking, for Uncle Andreas owned a currant plot, and everybody was needed to help get the fruit in after it was ripe.
The currant bushes are planted in rows three feet apart, like the Italian grape-vines, and grow on a single stalk which is trimmed down each year so that the roots may be strengthened.
The fruit is called "Corenth," named from the city of Corinth, and the currant trade is among the best in Greece, over a hundred and seventy tons being gathered each year.
The girls went to a currant bush and silently began to eat the cool, moist berries.
For if any suspect the goodness of the Plate, it is the Custom to burn the Money in the fire red hot, and so put it in water: and if it be not then purely white, it is not Currant Money.
She insisted on his having a small currant tart, because he liked sweets.
She had wandered to the side garden, where she was walking up and down the path beside the currant bushes under the long wall.
To each egg allow 2 tablespoonfuls of cream, or new milk, 1 teaspoonful of strawberry or raspberry and currant jam, 1 thin slice of buttered toast, sugar and vanilla to taste.
The first illustration on the opposite page is that of the currant tomato; an annual found growing wild in great profusion in the low lands of our valleys.
Ever since I was a child Bar-le-Duc has meant just the one thing to me,—those little glasses of delectable currant preserve which bear its label.
We went through the garden, a charming place with little box hedges and rose bushes and currant bushes and gooseberries all growing together in the true French style.
On the swept flags behind the currant row Charlotta stood to greet him.
Charlotta, crouched among the currant bushes, Watched the moon slowly dip from twig to twig.
The carnation cherries must have red currant jelly; if you have not white currant jelly for the morella, codling jelly will do.
This kind of sweetmeat is eaten in Geneva with roast meat, and is much better than currant jelly or apple sauce.
This makes a very elegant, clear currant jelly, and may be kept and used as such.
In a little port wine and water melt some currant jelly, or send in the jelly only; or simmer port wine and sugar for twenty or thirty minutes.
Boil a pint of currant juice with half a pint of clarified sugar; skim it; add a little lemon to taste, and mix with a quart of seed.
Fill them to the neck with the currant juice; then scald them in a copper or pot with hay between.
Proceed as directed for white currant wine, but use loaf-sugar.
Where the currant worm is troublesome the foliage should be dusted with arsenate of lead or Paris green as soon as it is well developed and before the fruit is started.
About thirty currant or gooseberry plants will be needed for a 100-foot row, and they can be planted along a fence or other boundary line.
But he had never found currant picking anything but dull.
When thecurrant struck Twinkleheels he laid back his ears, dropped his head, and let fly with both hind feet.
The first currant generally brought him out of a doze, with a start.
And one day when Johnnie stripped off a few stems of the red fruit and stood in the back door of the barn, eating it, he happened to snap a currant at Twinkleheels.
It was a temptation, too, to flick a currant into the face of another picker and see him jump.
He and his friends were always amazingly quiet when they were engaged in currant throwing behind the barn.
Now, however, currant picking didn't seem such a bore to Johnnie.
Of course he didn't object to strolling up to a currant bush and taking a few currants for his own use, on the spot.
Behind the store was an old-fashioned garden, set about by a neat stone wall, hidden here and there by the masses of lilac and currant bushes, and at the south of it was a great rose-covered boulder of granite.
By taking more careful notice he perceived that leaves as well as flowers were sometimes scented, as in the musk plant, the geranium, and even those of black-currant bushes.
I saw the swarm myself hanging on to a red-currant bush, and I asked the gardener if he could hive the swarm.
He flew on to the nearest currant bush and tilted his head and sang a little song right at him.
They'll be crying out for plum-duff and currant buns for the afternoon; and bullying the life out of me, if I haven't a few trifles like.
As the sun tinges the far skyline, the shearers are taking a slight refection of coffee and currant buns to enable them to withstand the exhausting interval between six and eight o'clock, when the serious breakfast occurs.
This method of growing the Currant I claim as entirely my own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "currant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: berry; fruit; orange; shrub
