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Example sentences for "pokeberry"

Lexicographically close words:
poissardes; poisson; poitrine; poivrade; poke; poked; poker; pokers; pokes; pokeweed
  1. Early in the spring, the young stalks of the pokeberry plant will be found excellent with stewed bacon.

  2. Other plants that figure most importantly in the diet include bittersweet, fox grape, pokeberry and horse nettle (Solanum carolinense).

  3. August 30: Three large clusters of the fruits of pokeberry (Phytolacca americana).

  4. Then they go down town, fix up a bag of pokeberry juice, and have it inside Marse Joe's westcoat, on his breast.

  5. Three miles further on, sunk in elder and pokeberry and shaded by a ragged willow, there appeared a wayside forge.

  6. The locusts shrilled, the pines gave no shade, in the angle of the snake fences pokeberry and sumach drooped their dusty leaves.

  7. Try going seven days on pokeberry ink and boiled coffee yourself and note the reaction.

  8. The brackish red wine they served with the army ration tasted like diluted vinegar and looked like pokeberry ink.

  9. An aide in blue, galloping madly from the front, encountered beside the pokeberry clump an officer, directing, with his sword.

  10. The aster and goldenrod, the dried ironweed and sumach, the red rose hips and magenta pokeberry stalks looked dead enough now, dead and dreary upon the weary, weary road.

  11. A heavy body had been dragged over succulent pokeberry plants: moist pithy leaves swung crushed, oozing their thick sap; dark berries lay mashed upon a soil purple with their blood.

  12. I spent the day in buying from a farmer a full Quaker dress, and stained my face that night a fine brownish tint with stale pokeberry juice.

  13. In washing next morning I was off my guard, and got rid of the most of my pokeberry juice.

  14. Why, you've got about two acres of pokeberry and not a blessed bit of cabbage or turnips among them.

  15. This is the California kind--the deadliest pokeberry that was ever invented.

  16. They are merely a mixture of California and Mexican pokeberry with the ordinary kind, and a little Osage orange sprinkled through.

  17. You've got enough pokeberry in that bed to last a million years.

  18. You said you could worship at the shrine of the pokeberry bed, you feel holier before the arrowhead lilies, your face takes on an appearance of reverence when you see pink mallow blooms.

  19. It was difficult to keep from protesting when the work carried them around the lake shore and to the pokeberry beds, for the colour of these she loved.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pokeberry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.