With arms well burnished, serried ranks, and fresh sprigs of green in every bonnet, no leader could desire a better addition to his army.
These young sprigs of the gentry will always fight, but I doubt if he is hardened enough or hath constancy enough for such a campaign as this is like to be.
Drain dry, pile on a hot dish, and lay sprigs of parsley over it.
Ruth sat in her room making her parcels gay with gold cord and sprigs of holly until she heard Mrs. Hamilton calling her.
The girls, who knew it of old, groaned with pleasure at sight of the frosty-looking pitcher with sprigs of mint at the top.
A tiny Christmas tree hung with glittering ornaments, and dotted with twinkling candies was the centerpiece, while a border of delicate green vine brightened with sprigs of holly ran all around the table.
To live and move regardless of those reins That bind your Christmas sprigs of worldly woe To him, whom you have hated long ago.
Boil your fish as above, dress it on a napkin, and garnish with some nice sprigs of double parsley, and serve the oyster sauce (No.
The sprigs with which it is diapered are so exactly similar in character to those of some of our own old examples--the Ely cope in particular--as to suggest the idea that the work is really English.
In these parts the peasants adorn the outside of their houses with plenty of whitewash, and then relieve its bareness with rude red and black paintings of sprigs of trees, arranged round the windows and doors.
Garnish with the corn oysters and sprigs of parsley.
And shyly she had on a faded gown, Patterned with sprigs of thyme and blades of wheat, And paling stars and little curling shells.
Garnish it with horseradish and sprigs of curled parsley, laid alternately round the edge of the dish; and send to table with it a small tureen of lobster sauce.
Cover the root (which is always an unsightly object) with thick sprigs of double parsley; and (instead of mashed potato) lay slices of currant jelly all round the tongue.
Gather sprigs or bunches of radish pods while they are young and tender, but let the pods remain on the sprigs; it not being the custom to pick them off.
When done, lay it in the dish, double it in half, and sticksprigs of curled parsley over it.
Serve them up at the breakfast table, garnished with small sprigs of parsley that has been fried in the same lard after the eggs were taken out.
The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms.
Defn: A silk fabric, with a woven pattern ofsprigs of flowers.
To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender.
The collar of the Thistle with the thistles and rue-sprigs is as old as the reign of James II.
The inventory shows that Queen Anne's collar was made up of sprigs of rosemary garnished with pearls.
Sprigs and tendrils of the flowers were to branch down from the border, so as nearly to reach the gilding in the middle.
She took a small earthen crock or pan and put into it a large onion, a small carrot and turnip, two sprigs of parsley and a bay leaf; on these she laid some fat pork shaved, and on that the meat beef neatly skewered and tied.
A few fossils were collected, but, with the exception of some sprigs of the stunted willow and a single tuft of saxifrage, the land was devoid of all vegetation.
Stir well; decorate with few sprigs of Mint by planting the sprigs stems downward in the Ice around the rim of glass; dress with Fruit and serve.
Bruise 3 or 4 sprigs of Mint in the Sugar and Water with a Muddler until the flavor of the Mint has been extracted.
Golden curls, blue eyes, and a frock of white muslin with blue sprigs made the resemblance very true.
She had on a little white muslin dress, with blue sprigs on it--the other dresses Maude spoiled.
And then when you came again, do you remember my poor sprigs of laurel which I was almost too shy to give you?
Wallenstein remembered how she too had greeted him in her own way with two sprigs of laurel and a little speech which died on her lips.
Do you remember our poor old room with the pink walls, and how the good neighbours brought us sprigs of oak and birch, and how you made a chaplet of leaves for my head, and swore that I was a genius?
Enter a group of Neighbours, dressed in holiday attire, and carrying in their hands flowers, wild grasses, and sprigs of oak and birch.
And we some sprigs of oak and birch, with their pretty green leaves.
Flour each piece lightly, lay in a stewpan with thinly-sliced onions, sliced turnip, a few sprigs of savoury herbs and seasoning.
Stencilled border of butterflies and sprigs with background, suggested by a spider's web.
If the sprig is to be put in and you want it against the web-background, you stencil this latter in first, and when dry the sprigsupon it.
Sixteen of these sprigs are required, and sixteen more small roses.
MINT CUP Place three sprigs of mint in a cup and add two tablespoons of sugar and crush.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
