He got bits of southernwood out of the garden and stuck them in cotton-reels, which made beautiful pots, and they looked like bay trees in tubs.
You see that yew and larch and elder can be made to look like palm trees, and that shrubs in tubs are really like sprigs of southernwood in cotton reels.
For little trees in tubs we had southernwood stuck in cotton reels--these make enchanting tubs, and there are a good many different shapes, so that your flower tubs are pleasantly varied.
Southernwood bears a balmier breath than is ever borne by many blossoms, for it is sweet with the fragrance of memory.
A sprig of Southernwood in an unmarried girl's shoe would bring to her the sight of her husband-to-be before night.
Dean Hole tells us that a sprig of Southernwood was always seen in the Sunday smocks of English farm folk.
The lying old Dispensatory of Culpepper gave a rule to mix the ashes of Southernwood with "Old Sallet Oyl" which "helpeth those that are hair-fallen and bald.
Pliny did not disdain to counsel putting Southernwood under the pillow to make one dream of a lover.
He walked past me very slowly, a sprig of southernwood in his hand; then after going by he stopped and turned, and approaching me in a shy manner and without saying a word offered me the little pale green feathery spray.
With this he laid bare the hair, to show that the animal was of the required colour, inflicted the wound of death, and cut away the fat, which was burned along with southernwood to increase the incense and fragrance.
Astrologers place Southernwoodunder the rule of Mercury.
Yes, that was right," he said absently, and pinched a spray of southernwood that grew beside the door.
The odour of the southernwood on the window-sill changed at once to laurel, rain-drenched, dark, and waving over tombs for the boy spellbound on the floor.
They went into a parlour with its window open, upon the window-sill a pigeon mourning among pots of wallflowers and southernwood that filled the entering air with sweetness.
They walked down the glen in groups, elderly women with snow-white piped caps, younger ones with sober hoods, and all with Bibles carried in their napkins and southernwood or tansy between the leaves.
These traditions are softened by the influence of years into simply idealizing, in the mind of every country-bred New Englander, the peculiar refreshing scent of the southernwood as a typical Sabbath-day fragrance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southernwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
