His opponent would grow angry at this, and exclaim: "Why, I cultivate monkshood in my own garden.
Then," he would pursue his questions, "you would probably call monkshood a weed, seeing that it has been the cause not merely of pain but even of death itself to many children.
Illustration: Vase of Monkshood September thirtieth] About Thanksgiving time of the first year, cover with a layer of straw, and uncover about the twenty-fifth of March.
I have found that Bordeaux mixture prevents the leaves of Monkshood from turning black and falling off, if the plants are well sprayed with it about the middle of June and the first of July.
Stevenson had minutely examined the vomit to endeavour to trace some of the fibre of monkshood from which aconite was extracted, and which, as was known, had sometimes been mistaken for horse radish, but not a particle could he find.
The prisoner was convicted, and confessed before his execution that the powdered root of Monkshood (aconite) had been mixed with pepper and sprinkled over the greens.
Mr Monkshood has written what all the young men at home and abroad who treasure Mr Kipling's writings think, but have not expressed.
The book should give its subject pleasure, for Mr Monkshood is very keen and cordial.
Of Mr Kipling's heroes Mr Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting.
Of Kipling's heroes Mr Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting" (extract follows).
The Monkshood is frequently cultivated in gardens and some of the species furnish a powerful drug, aconite, used in medicine.
The flowers of the Monkshood are usually deep purple-blue, but yellowish white ones are often found.
Like the Monkshood and Larkspur, the columbines also belong to the group of irregular buttercups.
The stem of the common Monkshood is thickened at the base, or collar, where it joins the root, so as to give it somewhat the appearance of celery; and hence ignorant persons have been poisoned by eating it.
We are so accustomed to see in our gardens the tall showy perennial called monkshood or wolfsbane (Aconitum Napellus), that few persons think of examining the flowers in detail.
Canada--and the darlingest hat, with one long feather beginning as green and graduating through every impossible shade of green and blue till it ended in a monkshood tip.
She put on also the hat with the feather which shaded itself from green into monkshood blue.
When he had got far on upon his way to Monkshood he lay down deep in the fern to rest, and watched the sky between the delicate lace of the leaves.
He glided away towards Monkshood swiftly and silently, a brown thing stealing through the undergrowth upon his malign errand.
Monkshood Glade was a long narrow drive, carpeted with fine turf and surrounded with a thick wall of trees.
Monkshood and George Gamble arranged a compilation from Saltus's work which they entitled "Wit and Wisdom from Edgar Saltus" (Greening and Co.
Added to his other accomplishments, Mr. Monkshood was a poet.
Monkshood it was who had brought out a small volume called "Wit and Wisdom of Edgar Saltus.
The flowers of Larkspur, and of Monkshood or Aconite, which are nearly related, are both strikingly irregular in calyx and corolla, and considerably unsymmetrical.
The stamens are indefinitely numerous in Larkspur and in Monkshood (Fig.
Outside, the spikes of monkshood and delphinium stood erect and motionless against the shadow of the hillside.
The house door was standing open, and he went out beyond the porch, and stood where the monkshood rose at the corner of the garden bed.
Of Mr Kipling’s heroes Mr Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting.
Mr Monkshood has written what all the young men at home and abroad who treasure Mr Kipling’s writings think, but have not expressed.
Of Kipling’s heroes Mr Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting” (extract follows).
Sergeant Rankin's voice echoed something of Judge Mann's perplexity; a true echo probably, for Callista sensed that Sergeant Rankin had never until this moment entertained the notion that the Monkshood Girl might be of unsound mind.
She said it was aconitine, and said she had prepared it a week before, by steeping monkshood roots in alcohol--brandy.
The Monkshood Girl will now look at the Foreman of the Jury.
The State will prove Callista's opportunity to secure monkshood roots ten days earlier, from her mother's flower garden in Shanesville.
What's the matter, you nice people--isn't the Monkshood Girl putting on a good show?
In earlier testimony, the plant monkshood was mentioned in connection with that wild garden.
Rankin would flatly deny it, the word of a respectable policeman against that of the Monkshood Girl.
Catering to the perennial hunger for a scapegoat, most of the papers were writing of Callista Blake on a note of hate just inside libel--Crippled Teen-Age Intellectual, Prodigy Girl in the Monkshood Case.
It wasn't till I noticed the monkshood plants that I started telling myself how that way wouldn't hurt.
A little lower down we came to large blue scabius, 3 to 4 feet high, a dark blue monkshood and quantities of the tall yellow poppy.
Deep purple-coloured primulas and monkshood, as well as a curious hairy mauve-red monkshood with a very graceful growth, were also to be seen.
Monkshood grew there, also black and yellow clematis, rhubarb, ranunculus and primulas of different kinds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monkshood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: belladonna; flower; hemlock; herb
