Holding his sleeve, she followed him to the front door, and detained him a moment, to fasten in the button-hole of his coat a tuberose and sprig of heliotrope, his favourite flowers.
Now, mamma, if you do not hoist a white flag as far as that poor girl is concerned, I shall certainly ask your wary stepson to give her a sprig of phryxa from Mount Brixaba.
The seasoning is slightly aromatic; for four quarts of soup use only a little leaf, or a piece of a large leaf; use also a blade of mace, and a sprig of any dried herb except sage.
A sprig of this myrtle (or was it a sprig of myrtle in a nosegay?
And at the end of the pilgrimage stood old age, grim and grey, carrying a sprig of rue in palsied shrivelled hands!
Even the roughest, most neglected little bed had a bit of heart's-ease or a sprig of mignonette in it.
Demi held up a sprig of acacia, which he had broken from a little tree on the lawn, because it was so pretty.
A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago.
Defn: To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.
A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex.
Sprig of Snip's By stealth has seized the gin-- Applies the bottle to his lips, And sucks the poison in.
Add a small piece of green pepper or a sprig of parsley to the salad dressing.
I think a tiny snapshot of yourself or your home, or your baby or your dog--or even a sprig of holly or a bit of evergreen on a card with a few written words of greeting means more to a friend than all the lovely engraved cards in the world!
When a Bairagi receives alms he will present to the giver a flower and a sprig of tulsi.
Every Bairagi before he takes his food should dip a sprig of tulsi or basil into it to sanctify it, and if he cannot get this he uses his necklace of tulsi-beads for the purpose instead.
Place the pig upon a large, hot platter, surrounded with parsley or celery tops; place a green wreath around the neck, and a sprig of celery in its mouth.
Here in the springtime he soon gets full enough for utterance, and mounts the topmostsprig of a sage bush to voice his thanks.
He chooses a prominent station, such as the topmost sprig of a fir sapling, and holds forth at regular intervals in a prosy, iterative ditty, from which the slight musical quality vanishes with distance.
Fry each piece in olive oil, add a sprigof parsley, a slice of onion, salt and pepper, and five mushrooms if you have them.
Little effort is made by the man toward dressing the head, though before marriage he at times wears a sprig of flowers or of some green plant tucked in the hat at either side.
Girls divined for dreams of their future husbands with a sprig of hawthorn gathered before dusk on May-eve, and carried home in the mouth without speaking.
Old custom gave these young rogues the privilege of drenching with water from a bucket any one whom they caught abroad on May-morning without a sprig of May.
Gathering a sprig of wintergreen she chewed it thoughtfully, and scarcely knew when she turned back to retrace her own steps to the cottage and learn what had befallen Katharine, who surely should have been in sight long before.
Rothgar surveyed the sprig of defiance with no more than a perfunctory interest.
When they caught sight of a sprig of a boy drawn up beside the way with his hand resting sternly on his knife, they sent up a shout of boisterous merriment.
One sprig of it, if it had not faded and gone to dust-colour like crusty Alpine snow in the lower hollows, and then she could depart, bearing away a memory of the best here!
You shall have the three sprigs, the sprig of watercress, and the sprig of marshwort, and the sprig of seaweed.
When they are done, stick the end of a sprig of parsley into the end of each one to simulate the stalk.
Put in it a gift for everyone who will be at the Christmas dinner, and cover them over thickly with bran, ornament the top by sticking a sprig of holly in the centre.
Well, amongst other folks I met there a young sprig of nobility who was coming up here the next term.
