How did the samphireknow that it was safe to grow where it did, and how did the glow-worm know that the samphire was safe?
The sea sleeps, and in the moist autumn air we break tall branches of the seeded yellowing samphire from hollows of the rocks, and bear them homeward in a wayward bouquet mixed with cobs of Indian-corn.
Samphire sprouts between the blocks of marble, and in sheltered nooks the caper hangs her beautiful purpureal snowy bloom.
Exceptionally we have seen a nest built a foot high in the branches of a samphire bush with a clear space beneath, and overhanging shallow water.
There were eight eggs laid on bare mud, with hardly any nest, beneath a samphire bush.
Riding through stretches of shrivelled samphire we frequently spring deer, driven out here, miles from their forest-haunts, by the eager search for water.
A good shoot may sometimes be engineered by cutting a broad "ride" through thesamphire along some flight-line, thereby forming an open channel between two lucios.
Should no land be near, the branches of a submerged samphire will serve for a dining-table.
They resemble those of mallards, consisting of twigs with a few feathers placed on the mud, and easily seen through the open clump of samphire which shelters them.
Lay it in a pot, let the pickle settle, and cover the samphire with the clear portion of the pickle.
Or leave out carrots and fruit, and put samphire and capers, and thicken it with French barley tender boil'd.
Samphire bushes also grew in patches upon it, and some patches of our arch-enemy, triodia.
To the West of this lake he found samphire swamps and clay-pans, which are so often seen at the end of creeks that seldom join the lakes in a definite channel.
The ooze, impregnated with sea salt, produces, on this side of the harbour, an incredible quantity of the finest samphire I ever saw.
But I will not detain you one minute longer; though I must observe, that there is plenty of fine samphire growing along all these rocks, neglected and unknown.
The samphire is there still--the crithmum maritimum, or cranagh.
Hartshorne andSamphire must be sowne in February, March, or April, when the Moone is old.
Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) grows on the rocky cliffs of our Southern shores, the name being a corruption of St. Pierre.
Moreover, as the smoke climbs up the precipice, it brings with it a savory smell from a pan of fried fish and a black kettle of chowder, and reminds me that my dinner was nothing but bread and water and a tuft of samphire and an apple.
A few biscuits made savory by soaking them in sea-water, a tuft of samphire gathered from the beach, and an apple for the dessert.
It were good the gentry would pickle it up as they pickle up Samphire for their use all the Winter.
Hazel and samphire consecrate The magic blaze that burns like Hate, While the deep witch-drums roll--and roll.
The samphire by the ocean's brim,'" he said lightly.
Pliny says Samphire is the very herb that the good country wife Hecate prepared for Theseus when going against the Bull of Marathon.
This genuine Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) is a small plant, bearing yellow flowers in circular umbels on the tops of the stalks, which flowers are followed by seeds like those of the Fennel, but larger.
Also a Salicornia, or jointed Glasswort, or Saltwort, or Crabgrass, is sold as Samphire for a pickle, in the Italian oil shops.
The title Samphireis derived from the French Herbe de St. Pierre, because the roots strike deep in the crevices of rocks.
The Sea Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) grows on the rocks close to the sea, and thrives well where there is hardly a vestige of soil.
The Golden Samphire (Inula crithmoides) is a very local sea-side plant, being found principally on the south-west coast.
The plain was otherwise covered with low salsolae, excepting on the higher ground, on which samphire alone was growing.
The white patch we had seen from a distance was the dry bed of a shallow salt lagoon also fringed round with samphire bushes, and being in our course we crossed it.
To the north and north-east a dark green plain covered with samphire bushes (amidst which the dry beds of small salt lagoons, as white as snow, formed a singular and striking contrast) was to be seen extending for about eight miles.
These detached sheets were fringed round with samphire bushes with which the basin was also speckled over.
From it we descended a small valley, the sides of which were covered with samphire bushes, and the bottom by the dry white and shallow bed of a salt lagoon.
The next thirteen miles down the river was fair average cattle pasture, extending for several miles to the right and left; open flats of atriplex and samphire occurring at intervals.
There is a story connected with the Samphire which shows how botanical knowledge, like all other knowledge, may be of great service, even where least expected.
Mark Samphire listened to his brother with ears lacerated by envy; and because devils tore him he was the more determined to exorcise them, in the hope that what he did and said might hide what he felt.
In the library below sat Archibald Samphire and David Ross.
No, no, he gave Mr. Samphire credit for a certain delicacy.
For such a task no better nor abler man than Archibald Samphire could be found in the kingdom.
If the lady who played Strauss's waltzes to Mark Samphire should chance to read these lines, let her believe that the memory of her kindness has ripened with the passing years.
Dibdin, an old friend and as discreet as an archbishop, promised to write, volunteering the information that the baby was an "uncommon fine boy, a Samphire every inch of him.
Her perceptions enabled her to see Mark Samphire as he was, the man who had fought against odds; her feeling for art approved his work as the epitome and expression of that fight dramatically set forth in admirable English.
Samphire will be here in five minutes," said the young fellow.
She stood at the middle window of the morning-room of Randolph House, the big brown house at the corner of Belgrave Square, from whose hospitable doors Archibald and Mark Samphire had driven to Lord's Cricket Ground when they were Harrow boys.
You say it is impossible that Mark Samphire should do this thing.
Archibald Samphire was passing by, stately in surplice and hood.
Archibald Samphire added that he was charged by his brother to make the proper excuses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "samphire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
