Traced back to its earliest state, the nettle arises as the man does, in a particle of nucleated protoplasm.
You are doubtless aware that the common nettle owes its stinging property to the innumerable stiff and needle-like, though exquisitely delicate, hairs which cover its surface.
When viewed with a sufficiently high magnifying power, the protoplasmic layer of the nettlehair is seen to be in a condition of unceasing activity.
Imbedded in the protoplasm at the broad, or attached, end of the nettle hair, there lies a spheroidal nucleus.
These would Jean gather, and the nettle too, and turn them to thin broth; but that same was no fare for a Crarae stomach.
The moss is soft on the little roads, so narrow and so without end, winding round the land; the nettle cocks him right braggardly over the old home of bush and flower, poisoning the air.
Hector, who had got his hand wet, was crying out that he had been bitten by a scorpion, forgetting how he had been stung by a nettle the previous morning.
The sting of the nettle is a very curious and interesting object under the microscope.
And tough skins they must have had, for the poison of the Roman nettle is much more severe than that of the two common species.
Then there is the nettle of Timor, or devils-leaf, the sting of which sometimes produces fatal effects.
Now, you should first tell me how to cure these nettle stings, and I would then be more inclined to learn how it is that nettles sting.
Well, they meant to nettle themselves, and so chafe their skins so as to enable them to bear the cold better.
There is some general resemblance, however, between the real nettles and the so-called dead nettles; the leaves for instance of the white dead nettle are very like those of the stinger.
But we can, at least when we are alone, and away from the people who nettle and antagonize us, forget injuries, quit harboring unpleasant thoughts and hard feelings toward others.
Book friends are always at our service, never annoy us, rasp or nettle us.
It is a colossus of the forest, and belongs to the nettle family.
And perhaps that is the reason why the plant the nettlehas had the same name given to it.
And in his treatise on Suffocation, he writes--"And people who are suffocated are recovered by an infusion of vinegar and pepper, or else by the fruit of the nettle when crushed.
If she should not heed thy teaching, Should not hear thy kindly counsel, After three long years of effort, Cut a reed upon the lowlands, Cut a nettle from the border, Teach thy wife with harder measures.
They sting, as their trivial name indicates, like a nettle when incautiously touched.
It possesses an urticaceous apparatus, which produces an effect similar to the stinging-nettle when applied to the skin.
The body of this sea-nettle must have filled the centre; the head being in the middle, surrounded by many feet or claws, like those of the cuttle-fish.
She was deft, too, was Polly Ann, and spun from nettle bark many a cut of linen that could scarce be told from flax.
Agnes, “but no doubt I may some day, as I suppose if ever I find a caterpillar upon a nettle that this will be it.
She crushed every nettle with her bare feet, and twisted it into green flax.
She had, however, almost reached the end of her labors, only one shirt of mail was wanting; but again she had no more flax, and not a single nettle was left.
Do you see this stinging nettle I hold in my hand?
It was bright daylight, and close to where she slept lay a nettlelike those in her dream.
The flowers of some of the plants belonging to this order are disposed in a whorl round the stem; as, for example, those of the Dead Nettle (Lamium).
The botanical construction of the flowers is, however, strikingly alike in all, from the nettle and the humble pellitory of the wall, to the fig and bread-fruit tree.
The stamens are five in number, and they are spread out like those of the Nettle tribe; there are two styles with hairy stigmas, and the capsule resembles the Echinus, or Sea Urchin.
The fibres of the stem when separated by soaking in water, are found to possess the same kind of tenacity as those of the Nettle and the Hemp, and may be made into cloth.
The common Nettle (Urtica dioica) is the type of this division; and we are so accustomed to consider it a noxious weed, that few persons are aware of the elegance of its flowers, which are disposed in drooping panicles.
O ilka nettlethat they came to, 'O well mote you grow!
The nettle nods, the wind blows over, The man, he does not move, The lover of the grave, the lover That hanged himself for love.
XVI It nods and curtseys and recovers When the wind blows above, The nettleon the graves of lovers That hanged themselves for love.
Do you see the stinging nettle which I hold in my hand?
It was broad daylight, and close by where she had been sleeping lay a nettlelike the one she had seen in her dream.
What has often been suggested as a sound commercial proposition is that yarn made from the nettle plant should be more extensively utilized.
Here the nettle no sooner makes its appearance, than the watchful eye of Prudence espies it; and, though it may not be possible totally to eradicate it, it is never suffered to reach to any height of perfection.
As the nettle and the rose thrive together on the same soil, so was the bosom of Kalan not without a weed.
