On leek and onion seed, he said, the duty was 20s.
The Scotch leek is more hardy and pungent than that [222] grown in England.
The Leek (Allium porrium) bears an Anglo-Saxon name corrupted from Porleac, and it is also called the Porret, having been the Prason of the Greeks.
History relates that a botanist tried hard for eighteen months to dry a plant of the House Leek for his herbarium, but failed in this object.
Hence the House Leek is known as Thunderbeard, and in Germany Donnersbart or Donderbloem, from "Jupiter the thunderer.
The following condensed notes on the prisoners on parole at Leek are given as an example of what took place in one of the towns where facts have been put on record in a local history.
From this register it will be seen it was not only the French prisoners at Leek and elsewhere who fought duels.
Salvert, commander in the navy, married Helen Govstry of Leek Moor.
Green grows the house-leek on the roof forever, and let the moss flourish on the thatch.
Put into a stewpan two glasses of Chablis, two tablespoonsful of mushroom trimmings, a leek cut up, a bunch of herbs, five peppercorns, and boil till it is reduced to half.
Leek marble; a rare variety of that colour, of which there is a table in the Mint at Paris.
Each drew from a little sack, containing his provision for two or three weeks, a dry cake; those whose parents were comfortably off had also, perhaps, a leek or a raw onion.
In my opinion, speaking in all modesty, I served you as well after Leek as before it.
Leek was as full of Highlanders as a wasp-cake is of maggots, and still they were swarming in.
At Macclesfield, the traveller to London had choice of two high roads, one through Leekand Derby, and the other through Congleton and Stafford.
The Highlanders being astonishing foot-folk, and the Colonel being full of analogies and digressions, the tower of Leek church came in sight before we had got the Prince out of Edinburgh.
Suddenly she lifted her eyes up to mine and said, almost sharply, "Then what did happen to you between the Hanyards and Leek to change you?
The Wild Leek is somewhat bitter, while the smaller wild onion is sweet.
Both Pillager and Flambeau Ojibwe like the Wild Onion and Wild Leek in the spring as an article of food.
Tell him I'll knock his Leek about his pate upon Saint Davy's Day.
There is no need to say much of the Onion in addition to what I have already said on the Garlick and Leek, except to note that Onions seem always to have been considered more refined food than Leek and Garlick.
Fluellen and Pistol, when he makes the bully eat the Leek; this causes such frequent mention of the Leek that it would be necessary to extract the whole scene, which, therefore, I will simply refer to in this way.
One of the earliest was Mr. Timothy Rose, the gentleman-farmer fromLeek Malton.
Mr. Timothy Rose, a "gentleman farmer" fromLeek Malton, against whose independent position nature had provided the safeguard of a spontaneous servility.
The leek does not form a true bulb like the onion, but the stem is uniformly thick throughout.
He was like a garden leek that had been boiled without soda--yellowish looking I suppose she meant.
To this piece of leek add Four branches of thyme, Two branches of parsley, One piece of carrot, cut in a strip three inches long, Two branches of celery, One small pepper pod.
He found the leek and the camphor and Flossie tied them up for him in a bit of linen and bade him be quite easy in his mind, as with these disinfectants he was impervious to the plague itself.
Won't he smell, though, when the leekgets warmed through and begins to fume!
Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I have another leek in my pocket which you shall eat.
Tell him I'll knock his leekabout his pate Upon Saint Davy's day.
Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek to-day?
Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
Defn: A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony.
After waiting a few minutes, John Drench started to meet Leek and help him on; and we cooled our heels in the church-porch, unable to get inside.
Leek and his truck had stuck fast in the valley: a low, narrow neck of land connecting a byeway to the farm with the lane.
As it was supposed Leek would be there sooner than any one else, the key of the church had been given to him that he might get the holly in.
No one volunteered to fetch them: a walk through the snow did not look lively in prospective to any one of us, and Leek had gone off somewhere.
Leek with his large truck of holly was somewhere on the road.
John Drench lifted her and they all went off: leaving me and Leek to finish up in the church, and put out the candles.
She said nothing about it then, and we all went out of the church together; except John Drench, who stayed behind with Leek to help clear up the litter for the man to carry away.
Yas, bot if you no lak I leek heem, ust you yoomp in und I lat heem run goot for two, t'ree mile.
I leek heem goot ven ve coom to place nobody see me.
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