For the cure of piles, sit for five minutes on a chamber vessel containing live coals, with crisp dry Mulleinleaves over them, and some finely powdered resin.
Flowers of Mullein in olive oil, when kept near the fire for several days in a corked bottle, form a remedy popular in Germany for frost-bites, bruises, and piles.
According to Dodoeus the Mullein was called "Candela.
Some of the most brilliant results have been obtained in suppurative inflammation of the inner ear by a single application of Mullein oil.
They afterwards cured these sores by applying fresh mullein leaves to heal them.
The great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) grows freely in England on dry banks and waste places, but somewhat sparingly in Scotland.
The old Irish method of administering Mullein is to put an ounce of the dried leaves, or a corresponding quantity of the fresh ones, in a pint of milk, which is boiled for ten minutes, and then strained.
An infusion of the flowers was used by the Roman ladies to tinge their tresses of the golden colour once so much admired in Italy; and now in Germany, a hair wash made from the Mullein is valued as highly restorative.
Mullein oil is a most valuable destroyer of disease germs.
Mullein leaves have a weak, sleepy sort of smell, and rather a bitter taste.
No; the mullein leaf is the best because it holds the water so nicely.
I was looking to see if I could find a mullein leaf," said Fleda.
He seemed to have swallowed his seriousness, or thrown it away with the mullein leaf.
Here about Mullein Hill, this is sure to be a gray-birch home.
I used to hear them here on Mullein Hill; a covey used to roost down the wooded hillside in front of the house; but even they are gone--hunted out of life; shot and eaten off of my small world.
Ain't no surer sign o' poor soil than a passel o' mullein stalks.
Mullein pink, or Rose Campion as it is often called, is another of our grandmothers' pets, and if started very early, will flower the first season.
Mullein leaves are very soft, with fine white downy hairs; they have given to the plant a name very often applied--"Flannel Plant.
Some species of Mullein (Verbascum) are particularly partial to chalk and limestone districts.
The mullein weed shall have a new name,” declared the king.
He leaped across the ditch, and soon filled his hands with the tall mullein spikes.
They are made from spikes of the mullein weed,” explained the king’s page.
So the king’s page carried the sack of mullein spikes to the old woman’s cottage and she gave him a large lump of tallow.
Every year since that far-off time when the reigning king holds an autumn festival, the banquet table is lighted with mullein spikes dipped in tallow, and they are called the “King’s Candles.
But I should like a few of those tall mullein spikes.
On his way back he leaped across the ditch again and filled his arms with tall mullein spikes.
PAGE 9 Mullein Hill: the name of the author's country home in Hingham, Massachusetts.
Years before the house was built the ridge was known as Mullein Hill because of the number and size of the mulleins (Verbascum Thapsus) that grew upon its sides and top.
I go into a great city for my work; and when the day's work is done, I turn homeward here to Mullein Hill--far out in the country.
Indeed, I think the muskrat will be the warmer; for my big house here on Mullein Hill is sometimes cold.
Christmas fern: Gathered all through the winter here in the ledges aboutMullein Hill by the florists for floral pieces.
They'd go to drugging themselves with boneset tea, and mullein tea, and bitter-root powders and wahoo bark, said Gray.
Oh, stony pasture, Where the tall mullein Stands up so sturdy On its little seed!
That the mothmullein is of no use except that it will attract moths wherever it is laid.
Our familiar primrose is the evening primrose,--a rank, tall weed that blooms with the mullein in late summer.
A favorite of mine is the little moth mullein that blooms along the highway, and about the fields, and maybe upon the edge of the lawn, from midsummer till frost comes.
It is commonly believed that the mullein is indigenous to this country, for have we not heard that it is cultivated in European gardens, and christened the American velvet plant?
As full as a dry mullein stalk of seeds" is almost equivalent to saying, "as numerous as the sands upon the seashore.
The evening sunbeams slanted over the blackberry bushes and mullein stalks of the graveyard, when the lonely voyager was lowered to the rest from which she should not rise till the heavens be no more.
Shepherdesses and children passed sprigs of mullein (verbascum) and nuts across the flames; the nuts were supposed to cure toothache, and the mullein to protect the cattle from sickness and sorcery.
The Mullein (Verbascum) was formerly employed by wizards and witches in their incantations.
Dorothy, "close beside that mullein is an evening primrose, and their blossoms are the same color.
And still the farmer grumbles That nothing good will grow In this old mullein meadow We played in long ago!
Examination of the surface of a mullein leaf shows us that the lower surface of the leaf is provided with stomata.
Such are themullein and the gooseberry caterpillars, the larvae of the spurge hawk-moth, of the buff-tip, and many others.
In like manner, dissimilarly coloured varieties of Verbascum or mullein have been found by two distinct observers to be comparatively infertile.
It was a city of the dead, deserted save for the lizards fleeing from our footsteps, and a few white butterflies dancing above the mullein stalks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mullein" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
