The fourth was a little child not seven; he was an orphan, and the people who kept him sent him out to get herbs in the outlying villages to sell in the streets, and beat him if he let other children be beforehand with him.
The cool moist herbs soaked on her bruises; and the draught of milk had slaked the thirst of her throat.
In one little brown room a betrothal party made merry; in another, that was bright with Dutch tiles, and hung round with dried herbs and fruits, an old matron had her arm round the curly head of a sailor lad, home for a short glad hour.
She had passed through the market with a load of herbs and flowers for one of the chief hostelries in the square, and was returning with the flat broad basket balanced empty on her head.
Omphalodes, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or white flowers.
Cacalia, tallherbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods.
Chop the parsley and sweet herbs very finely and stir them in, then the grated rind of half a lemon, and the pepper and salt; drop in the egg and bind into a paste, and it is ready to use.
And as far as salad herbsare concerned, they are literally unknown.
Now, these salad herbs are readily grown, and do not require any care in their cultivation, so that there is no opportunity for excuse on that score.
The lettuce leaves, on being taken out of the towel, are then placed within the bowl, and over them is daintily spread whatever is required from each of the little heaps of herbs already referred to.
Put the stock into a stewpan; slice in the leek and add the fagot of herbs and the peppercorns.
Lay them in a deep dish, put in the herbs and peppercorns, pour over the vinegar and water.
Barbara herself would never wear gloves about Second Westings in summer, save at meeting, or when riding, or in pulling herbs or cutting flowers.
Now Mistress Mehitable was a cunning distiller of the waters of bergamot, rosemary, mint, thyme, and egrimony; but Barbara developed a subtlety in the combining of herbs and simples which resulted in perfumes hitherto unknown.
She said Thome gave her herbs with his own hand, with which she cured John Jack's bairn and Wilson's of the Townhead.
Herbs are plants or vegetables with soft stalks or stems.
And into this pot we put rice and a multitude of herbs from the garden, which by the taste we thought might serve to make a savoury mess.
To garnish and beautify this formidable defence, nature had cast over all a network of creeping herbs with most extraordinary flowers, delightful both to see and smell, but why so prickly, no man can say.
In the churchyard stand two rows of village maids with baskets to strew rosemary and sweet herbs in our path, and within the church a brave show of gentlefolks, friends and neighbours, to honour the wedding.
The children choose one of themselves, who is from eight to ten years old, usually a poor orphan, whom they strip naked and deck from head to foot with field herbs and flowers: this child is called pyrperuna.
His eyes became the stars, his skin and hair the herbs and the trees, and the insects which touched him became people.
What sins they had committed in their other life, to be compelled to work like beasts, grinding the herbs that would bring health and life to others, while they lived on in darkness.
She put Gwion Bach the son of Gwreang of Llanfair to stir the cauldron, and a blind man named Morda to keep the fire going, and she made incantations over it and put in magical herbs from time to time as Feryllt's book directed.
And from Ulster came certain of the friends of Cuchulain, and they bore him away into Murthemney, where they washed him and bathed his wounds in the streams, and his kin among the Danaan folk cast magical herbs into the rivers for his healing.
Their horses were in the same paddock, their drivers warmed themselves over the same fire, and the heroes sent each other food and drink and healing herbs for their wounds.
This tortoise went out and gathered a supply of such herbs and fed them to the man; and he ate them without noticing who was finding his food for him, so nearly unconscious was he in his delirium.
Thus the hunter lay for a week or more, struggling between life and death and kept alive only by the herbs the tortoise brought him.
I also went often to the convent, and learned much from the celebrated Father Glückner about herbs and flowers.
Sir Gawaine him seemed he came into a meadow full ofherbs and flowers.
And so Sir Launcelot made fair Elaine to gather herbs for him, to make him a bath.
For then all herbs and trees renew a man and woman, and in likewise lovers call again to their mind old gentleness and old service, and many kind deeds that were forgotten by negligence.
A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly- bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass.
This small goatlike antelope feeds on wild mountain herbs not available to lumbering cows, less agile sheep or domesticated mountain goats, so it gives, in small quantity but high quality, the richest, most flavorsome of milk.
A scent as fresh as that of the daisies and herbs the mother milk cow munched "will hang round it still.
Semihard, sheep milk, mixed with brandy, white wine, strong herbs and seasonings and well marinated.
Albula Switzerland Rich with the flavor of cuds of green herbs chewed into creamy milk that makes tasty curds.
It comes from Switzerland in a hard, truncated cone wrapped in a piece of paper that says: To be used grated only Genuine Swiss Green Cheese Made of skimmed milk and herbs To the housewives!
Alpine blooms and herbs haunt the Gruyère, Parmesan wafts the scent of Parma violets, the Flower Cheese of England is perfumed with the petals of rose, violet, marigold and jasmine.
Montavoner Austria Sour and sometimes sweet milk, made tasty with dried herbs of the Achittea family.
Montavoner Austria A sour-milker made fragrant with herbs added to the curd.
He halted in a small hollow in which was a pool left by the receding waters of the Nile, and around its edge a few patches of the herbs and grasses which grow on the borders of the desert.
There are spirits in the water, in fire, in all the trees and berries, in herbs and in tobacco, in the grass.
She took some more herbs from her box and threw them in the fire, crying with a loud voice, "At-o-sis!
Till now approaching nigh the magic bower, Where dwelt the enchantress skill'd in herbs of power, A form divine forth issued from the wood (Immortal Hermes with the golden rod) In human semblance.
