There werenettles growing thick and rank in the foss; they looked different from the common nettles in the lanes, and Lucian, letting his hand touch a leaf by accident, felt the sting burn like fire.
As he plunged through the hedges the bristling thorns tore his face and hands; he fell amongst stinging-nettles and was pricked as he beat out his way amidst the gorse.
What we have above related concerning the nettles is of the same character.
I have so many nettles to root up in the vineyard, because those whose duty it was to do it only pulled off the stems, and I was obliged to draw the roots with much difficulty out of a stony soil.
There was a row in the dressing-room between Short-stop Nettles and Bully Mason; and it always makes old Johnstone limp on that wounded leg to scent a duel.
He saw Bob Nettles was not to be bullied out of little Sue, and they must give up that point.
Of course," blundered Mason, shy as an awkward girl to her first lover, and obstinately turning that eye away from her on which Bob Nettles had left his mark.
Mason had been charged by the angry woman with the disagreeable duty of ordering Bob Nettlesto leave the house.
These offences, however, were mere preliminaries to that which the unlucky Nettles was destined to give, and which was the true origin of that duel and its results.
Silly Bob Nettles was romping by with Sudie--promenade all, around the porches, through the hall, and back to their places.
If it was absurd to think of that merry little prig Nettles in such a business, Captain Mason's old companions-in-arms at the mere suggestion of his being brought to face a loaded pistol burst into great guffaws of laughter.
IV Renelde did try, and to her great surprise the nettles when crushed and prepared gave a good thread, soft and light and firm.
When the thread of the nettles was spun she wove it with her shuttle, and then cut the shroud and began to sew it.
Do you see those tall nettles that grow on the tombs in the churchyard?
Look for thy reward Among the Nettlesat the Elder tree, This is the pit and this the Elder tree.
Nettles are much used in the neighbourhood of London to pack plums and other fruit with bloom on them, so that in some market gardens they are not only not destroyed, but encouraged, and even cultivated.
We will plantNettles or sow Lettuce, set Hyssop and weed up Thyme.
Look for thy reward Among theNettles at the Elder Tree.
Nettles are occasionally eaten as vegetables on the Continent.
And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.
For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.
It feeds on the roots of deadnettles (Lamium album and L.
The hybernated perfect insects come out early in the spring, and lay their eggs in close irregular clusters on nettles (Urtica dioica and U.
It is a kind of universal feeder, partaking readily of almost every low-growing plant, with perhaps a special partiality for dead nettles (Lamium album and L.
It feeds throughout the winter by night on dead nettles (Lamium purpureum and L.
And when the seed had sprung up the villagers, said: "Look, do you see where the devil has been sowing thistles and nettles amongst old bailiff Hawermann's corn!
They left the shore awhile, and went into the quarry, and winding in and out the beds of nettles and thistles climbed up a slope, where they sank at every step ankle deep in sand.
There's a lot of nettles down there," said Crassus.
Yes," said another, and struck at the nettles by Bevis, cutting down three or four with his sword.
She fainted away from fright and the Blackamoor thinking her dead tossed her into a field of nettlesin the outskirts of the town.
I found her one morning lying in the nettles where some ruffians had left her for dead.
She meantime had found refuge in the hut of an old woman who had heard her groan in the early dawn when she lay among the nettles and had taken compassion on her.
And what use, papa," asked Willy, "would nettles be to them during the cold weather in England?
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.
Hooker saw gigantic nettles in Nepal, one was a shrubby species growing fifteen feet high, called by the natives mealum-ma.
There are three species of stinging nettles in this country, the great nettle, the small nettle, and the Roman nettle; the first two are very common, the last very rare indeed.
I have eaten the young shoots of the common nettles in the spring of the year; they do not make a bad substitute for spinach.
A French botanist was once stung by one of these nettles in the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta; he says the pain so affected the lower part of his face that he feared lock-jaw.
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.
Tree-nettles in Australia are occasionally found as much as twenty-five feet in circumference.
When this had gone on for some time, his disciple who cooked the nettles for him saw that he was falling away in flesh, so he took a hollow elder-stick, put butter into the tube, and by this means enriched the dish.
He went back to the monastery and said to the cook, "I will eat nettlesonly now.
Columba said, "The nettles do not taste as before.
The garden was large, but it was uncultivated; nettles and weeds were growing in the paths, where evidently no foot had trodden them for a long while.
It lay at the back of the château, beyond the shadednettles and the ancient quinces.
He guided his companion's stumbling footsteps over the broken masonry until they reached the path, the nettles stinging their hands, and Harris feeling his way like a man in a dream.
He stood, then, among the ruins of a burnt and shattered building, the weeds and nettles proving conclusively that it had lain thus for many years.
Now pass three turns of twine like a timber-hitch tightly around the part where the nettles separate and fasten the twine, and while passing this "warp" lay the nettles backward and forward with each turn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nettles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
