Why is it, if the stone do congeal and wax hard through heat, we use not contrary things to dissolve it by coldness, but light things, as parsley, fennel and the like?
Let her diet and air be warm, her meat of easy concoction, seasoned with ant-seed, fennel and thyme; and let her avoid raw fruits and milk diets.
In this case likewise, observe to let her have coriander orfennel seeds boiled in barley broth; but by all means, for the time specified, let her abstain from meat.
Grown as fennel which it greatly resembles, both being well known herbs used for flavoring pickles, and both being of unsurpassed hardiness.
Fennel must be taken up and kept in a Warm Cellar all the Winter.
It was a hot afternoon in August, and a rank, almost overpowering odour of dog-fennel rose from the dusty weeds trampled down around the tent.
With the strident boom of the bass viol came the rank smell of the dog-fennel that hurrying feet had left bruised and wilting in the sun.
It gave men strength and fearless mood, And gladiators fierce and rude Mingled it with their daily food: And he who battled and subdued A wreath of Fennel wore.
In the second quotation the allusion is to the reputation of Fennel as an inflammatory herb with much the same virtues as are attributed to Eringoes.
The early poets looked on the Fennel as an emblem of the early summer-- "Hyt befell yn the month of June When the Fenell hangeth yn toun.
Tansy and rue teas are useful in cases of colic, as are fennel seeds steeped in brandy.
Pick out the finest, handling as little as may be, and pile upon a salver or flat dish, with bits of ice between them, and ornament with peach leaves or fennel sprigs.
Florence fennel is generally boiled and served with either a butter or a cream dressing.
Fennel is considered indispensable in French and Italian cookery.
In usual garden practice fennel is propagated by seeds, and is grown as an annual instead of as a biennial or a perennial.
Like many other plants, fennel has had a highly interesting career from a medical point of view.
There was an old belief that thefennel in flower predicted an early summer.
It is said to have been composed chiefly of senna and fennel leaves.
In perfumery fennel oil is but little used; sometimes in connection with other volatile oils for perfuming soaps.
Good fennel oil should dissolve clear in 1 to 2 parts of 90 per cent.
Fennel oil (oleum fœniculi) is derived by distillation from the fruits of Fœniculum vulgare, Gaertner.
Dancing was instantaneous, Mrs. Fennel privately enjoining the players on no account to let the dance exceed the length of a quarter of an hour.
Shepherdess Fennel fell back upon the intermediate plan of mingling short dances with short periods of talk and singing, so as to hinder any ungovernable rage in either.
God, yet still I recall my childish picture of her angel sweeping with wide wings the blue eternal spaces, with never-withering sprays of fennelin her hand.
Opening her roomy black silk workbag she gives herself a saving nibble of fennel and passes a delicious spray of this spicy herb to each of her three grandchildren.
Modbury, however, in replying to an epistle in which Fennel had given him free consent to marry his daughter, expressed a thorough conviction of the firmness of the girl's purpose, and that at present it was impossible to shake it.
Fennel is one of the numerous plants dedicated to St. John, and was formerly hung over doors and windows on his vigil.
The ancients believed that the use of Fennel gave strength to the constitution, and made fat people grow lean.
Fenckle, or Fennel (Foeniculum), was employed by the ancients in the composition of wreaths, to be worn by victors after the games in the arena.
Fennel and Annisseed must be sowne in February or March, in a full Moone.
The Greek name for fennel was [Greek: ho Marathon] (Marathon).
I mean fennel seed tea, of which a sufficient quantity should be prepared every morning to last twenty-four hours; this should be strained and sweetened, then set aside for further use.
The old German household remedy for this is fennel seed tea; there is nothing as useful; it expels the gas and it quenches the thirst from which colicky children suffer, at least while they have the colic.
The latter, bottle-fed babies, are all more or less colicky, and for these the fennel seed tea, between bottle time is indeed a balm.
Fennel sauce and plain melted butter are the usual accompaniments to boiled mackerel; but caper or anchovy sauce is sometimes served with it.
Shepherd Fennel had married well, his wife being a dairyman's daughter from the valley below, who brought fifty guineas in her pocket--and kept them there till they should be required for ministering to the needs of a coming family.
The seeds of fennel may be sown in April about three-quarters of an inch deep, and the plants thinned to fifteen inches apart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fennel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
