When 'tis said that Elias lay and slept under a Juniper Tree, some may wonder how that Tree, which in our parts groweth but low and shrubby, should afford him shade and covering.
And the rather, if that quality be half true, which Pliny affirmeth, that the Coals of Juniperraked up will keep a glowing Fire for the space of a year.
Wherein we might at first doubt the Translation, not onely from the Greek Text but the assertion of Dioscorides, who affirmeth that the roots of Juniper are of a venomous quality.
But Scaliger hath disproved the same from the practice of the African Physicians, who use the decoction of Juniper roots against the Venereal Disease.
And the like particulars, although they seem uncircumstantial, are oft set down in holy Scripture; so is it specified that Elias sat under a juniper tree, Absalom hanged by an Oak, and Zacheus got up into a Sycomore.
Let the distance from one circle to another be half a braccia; and the juniper [sprigs] must lie top downwards, beginning from below.
The way in which the poles ought to be placed for tying bunches of juniper on to them.
Round this column tie four poles to which willows about as thick as a finger must be nailed and then begin from the bottom and work upwards with bunches of juniper sprigs, the tops downwards, that is upside down.
She had gone to buy a key to lock her door while she ate her juniper pies.
I’m making the crust for my batch of juniper pies.
I’m washing the pot in which I cooked some juniper berries to make a batch of pies.
I’m cleaning my floor before I sit down all by myself to eat my juniper berry pie.
Above the water line, dark green moss and lichens grew in patches, farther up were juniper and creeping plants, and beyond them bushes and forest.
Luckily the strong stem of the juniper and its tough roots, that had penetrated deep into the cracks and crannies, held fast, and the boy was able at last to pull himself clear of the water.
There the wall was not quite perpendicular, there were a few crannies and holes, and from the top another trailing juniper sprawled part way over and hung down a few feet.
Instinctively he threw up his right arm and grasped that rock, his fingers gripping the tough stem of the stunted, trailing juniper that grew upon it.
He is not more certain, but only more apprehensive, when the crushed juniper twigs are taken in hand, examined, and let go again.
But thejuniper bush is no longer there; it is gone, root and branch!
They see, moreover, some branches of a juniper bush near the cliff's base, broken, but still clinging.
It will be seen from the above that the superior flavour of Hollands spirit depends more on the peculiar mode of its manufacture than on the quantity of juniper berries employed; 2 lbs.
Ginger, juniper berries, and mustard, of each bruised, 1/2 oz.
In practice, it is found that the true flavour of foreign geneva cannot be imparted to spirit by juniper alone, and that the English gin of the present day depends for its flavour on no such a substance.
The Dutch distillers, most noted for this liquor, add a little pure Strasburg turpentine and a handful or two of hops to the spirit, along with the juniper berries, before rectification.
At Rotterdam sweet fennel seed is commonly added as a flavouring; and at Weesoppe Strasburg turpentine and fennel seeds, or the essential oil of fennel, are frequently substituted for a large portion of the juniper berries.
From juniper berries (at least a year old, and crushed in the hands), 3 lbs.
Corn spirit flavoured with either oil of juniper or oil of turpentine.
The grave was lined with flowers and juniper, and juniper and flowers lay thick-strewn on the ground for a great space about.
As I left the house I stepped on juniper twigs at the very next door; the sidewalk and the street were strewn thick with them, the symbol of death either in that home or among its friends.
No matter how far away the friend may have lived, when they hear of his death they strew the juniper around their house to show that a death has given them sorrow.
On our way back to Bergen we passed several little rowboats, creeping slowly along, loaded high with juniper boughs.
I believe I have told you of the beautiful custom the Norwegians have of strewing green juniper twigs in the street in front of their houses whenever they have lost a friend.
At the wharf they were met by nearly all Bergen; and the body was borne in grand procession through the streets, which were strewn thick with juniper from the wharf to the cemetery, at least two or three miles.
The woods stood close to the road on the right; on the left were narrow fields and pastures where there were as many acres of spruces and pines as there were acres of bay and juniper and huckleberry, with a little turf between.
They burn rosemary andjuniper and bay leaves in their homes.
Full-sized representations of the Juniper Green skull, and others of the same type, are given in Crania Britannica.
In the early summer of 1851, I learned of the accidental exposure of a stone cist, in trenching a garden at Juniper Green, a few miles distant from Edinburgh, and immediately proceeded to the spot.
And we won't put up with any old bouquet of juniper bushes and rocks, either.
Only a delicate fringe of goldenrod and low juniper bushes veiled the treacherous cliff edge.
Behind a juniper bush, On a night in July warm and red, Was my poor mother of me brought to bed [Speaking].
Behind a juniper bush, When all the vermin have had their bite, I'll stretch myself out and give up the fight [Speaking].
Yet one thing I know: anywhere hereabouts, a mile-stone or a cross-roads will do very well some day; I do not need a juniper bush.
Just as I was dropping off I was awakened again by a smell of bitter smoke in my nostrils--the smell of burning juniper leaves.
It comes," he said, "from the smoke ofjuniper leaves.
He told me to what Power the smell of burning juniper was supposed to be agreeable.
Any kind of timber growing in the vicinity is used; but as groves of piñon and juniper are most abundant in the Navaho country, these are the kinds usually employed.
The structure is finished like the hogáns; the frame is covered by heavy layers of cedar or juniper bark over the sides and roof, and finally with a deep covering of earth packed firmly over the whole exterior.
Juniper thickets gave way more and more to the beautiful manzanita; and soon on the south slopes appeared cactus and a scrubby live oak.
They pressed her breast and flew out to caress the white aspens and to tear at the maple leaves, and gather the lavender juniper berries, and came back again to her heart.
He could see the dark patches of cedar and juniper trees.
As Jean rose to his knee and carefully lifted his rifle round to avoid the twigs of a juniper he suddenly experienced another emotion besides the one of grim, hard wrath at the Jorths.
At last her aching limbs absolutely refused to carry her any farther, and she crouched under the shelter of a big juniper bush that overhung a piece of rock.
She did not recognize the boulder on her right, and the juniper bush on her left was surely strange.
Fired with the savage hope that some chance might bring a beaver within reach of their mighty spring, they had crept down, on their great, furred, stealthy pads, to the patch of juniper scrub.
Quicker than it takes to tell it, they were fleeing like gray shadows, one over the bank and through the juniper bushes, the other up along the snowy shore of the pond, their discomfiture apparently driving them to part company.
From Norre-Vosborg, where the juniper blossomed, the journey became more pleasant, for they met some other people who were also going to the funeral and were riding in waggons.
In a north-west corner of the garden stood a great bush full of blossom, like winter snow amid the summer's green; it was a juniper bush, the first that Jurgen had ever seen in bloom.
So Juniper just kept still and watched with eyes almost popping from his head with fear and excitement.
This was because Juniper had been fortunate enough to see Whitey alight on that stump.
All about them the lonely wood rustled softly with its young oak leaves and juniper bushes.
Then cut a stick from the juniper three spans long, turn the point three times toward the grass where you have offered the blood, and walk nine times round the juniper bush from west to east.
The woman comforted the children, and while the childless woman went with one of the devils, the mother put the children to bed on the stove, laid juniper twigs in front, and made the sign of the cross over them.
He wore out his strength plunging through the deep snowdrifts, until, by good luck, he found some protection from the wind under a thick juniper bush.
Then appeared from the juniper a huge head, half man, half beast, with golden horns nine feet long, and with golden tusks two ells long.
When the bear had disappeared, there was a rushing and roaring under the juniper as if fifty smiths were blowing the bellows at once.
Thickets of tall fern and salmon-berry hung over the brink, and for a score of yards or so a slope of soil and gravel sprinkled with tufts of juniper and dwarf firs ran down steeper than a roof.
Then I must have left it where I fell into that juniperthis afternoon.
We felt about in the small enclosure round the house, and gathered juniper and birch-twigs, and kindled a fire upon the open stove built in the corner of the room.
Jean at once knelt, and drawing a phial from his breast, poured into Ogier's mouth a spirit distilled from thejuniper berries that grow on the Causse.
This juniper grew at the summit of the rock, and at its junction with the masonry of the castle.
Again the juniper bush brushed his face, it was as an elfin hand which was thrust forth out of the rock to lay hold of him, or at least to warn him against further progress.
On her left hand was the smooth face of the rock, without even a blade of grass, a harebell, a tuft of junipergrowing out of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "juniper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; oak; shrub; tree; wood
