But then, sir," observed the girl as she sucked the honey out of the stalk of an azure convolvulus flower and threw the remains at a butterfly that sailed across the sunshine, "you know so little!
At last the stalk was on, for somewhere in the vast marshes of the Hannah Bay coast, camped the men he had followed four hundred miles to meet face to face and fight for his dog.
Cutting back into the scrub, that he might begin hisstalk of the caribou from the nearest cover with the wind in his face, he moved behind a rise in the ground slowly out into the barren.
It was clear that before starting to stalk Marcel's camp, Piquet had deemed it safer to seal the lips of Beaulieu forever as to the fate of the man he planned to kill.
The beehives sleep; and round the walk, The garden path, from stalk to stalk The bungling beetle booms, Where two soft shadows stand and talk Among the blooms.
If all of 'em grow, it's easier to pull up one stalk at the first hoeing than to plant over again.
Part of the stalks were tied up and put in the old "corn-stalk barn," as we called it, and the remainder were stacked near.
And we see how much would be due for this to a corps of ladies like Miss Graves, not allowed to remain too long on the stalk of spinsterhood.
Not long after, he had completed a successful stalk of Narjok, the horned deer, and brought it down with a single arrow.
Perhaps then it would rise and stalk back into the jungle, leaving her unmolested.
The stalk is rather more than a yard high, and each plant sends out four or five of these enormous leaves, presenting altogether a very noble appearance.
The splendid hue of the lower part of the leaf-stalk flows on towards the point, and spreads in smaller streams through the main veins and ramifications of the great soft blade of the leaf, which is often 1 ft.
The radical leaves are broad, twice ternate with toothed divisions, and the base of the leaf-stalk is covered with numerous rough tawny hairs.
If they waxed familiar, he would warn them with a bristling of his neck-hair and a throaty rumbling and get up and stalk away.
I thought that all the wheat in the field grew upon one stalk in seven great kernels; then a shrivelled and withered stalk began to spring up; when suddenly a rapping on my door awakened me, and I dreamed no more.
Above it towers the Illyrian cotton-thistle, whose straight and solitary stalk soars to a height of three to six feet and ends in large pink tufts.
She scrapes the cobwebby stalk of the yellow-flowered centaury and gathers a ball of wadding which she carries off proudly in the tips of her mandibles.
Its square shape supplies a firmer hold than a roundstalk would do.
Should the threatening storm burst, should the stalk sway in the wind, the sleeper is not troubled by her swinging hammock; at most, she presses her fore-legs for a moment against the tossed mast.
The assailant has to handle his victim gingerly, without provoking contractions which would make the Snail let go his support and, at the very least, precipitate him from the tall stalk whereon he is blissfully slumbering.
Amid the tangle of a hedge, a bramble-stalk is selected, still standing, but a mere withered stump.
The moment that the Fly comes within reach, the watchful Devilkin turns her head, bends the stalk of her corselet slantwise and, flinging out her fore-limb, harpoons the Fly and grips her between her two saws.
All grip a stalk with their mandibles and sleep with their bodies outstretched and their legs folded back.
But it also frequently happens that the Snail occupies a raised position, clinging to the tip of a grass-stalk or perhaps to the smooth surface of a stone.
The proposal is, it will be recollected, to carry off thestalk of the flax crop, and to convert the seed into manure.
Every one knows that carrying off the straw will exhaust the land, as will also carrying off the stalk of the lint.
The prison is a section of sugar-cane stalk with its leaves twined together; and the doctor is believed to be able to confine the nkinda there.
Take the refuse of food from the banana leaf, and the hooks, and lay them at the foot of the plantain stalk from which the five "fingers" were cut.
Nelly stooped, and broke from its stalk the smallest of the fruits.
For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily.
Daisy Chains The old way of making a daisy chain is to split one stalk and thread the next through it up to the head, as in this drawing.
The players stand in a row with their hands behind them, and a number of long-stalked cherries are chosen from the basket and placed by the tip of the stalk between their teeth.
At the word of command the players begin their efforts to draw the cherry up by the stalk into their mouths.
If you cut the stalk of a brake fern low down, in September, you find a spreading oak tree.
The faintest stimulus that touches the extremely sensitive hairs, or cilia, at the free end of the cells, immediately causes a contraction of a thread-like stalk at the other, fixed end.
Then follow the elders armed and in martial array, and behind them stalk the representatives of the dead, with the relations of the departed crowding and trooping about them.
Again, another may be observed with a bunch of the red dracaena leaves knotted round his neck and the long stalk hanging down his back.
The dead issue from their graves and stalk in procession through every street of the village.
It throws out a pedicle or foot stalk in the course of the second or third week, the leaves of which are of similar shape to that of the Guinea grass.
It ought then to lie sufficiently long upon the ground so as to welt before carting to the sheds, hanging up each stalk next morning so as not to touch its fellow.
The stalk is rather more than a yard high, and each plant sends out four or five of these enormous leaves, presenting together a very noble appearance.
The flower stalk is long and green, the inflorescence a simple umbel.
They should be chosen round, fresh, and free from stalk and dirt.
It is claimed by some that this variety will yield more seed than any other, and the seed is rather larger, but the stalk is coarser, and would probably be less relished by stock.
When the tobacco plant throws out flower, it must be topped off, leaving about twelve leaves in the stalk to ripen and come to maturity.
In appearance cubebs resemble black pepper, except that they are higher colored and are each furnished with a stalk two or three lines long.
This plant is not unlike hemp, but the stalk is cleaner and semi-transparent.
I had rather be the unhappy Princess Cabbage-Stalk all my life than inflict the sight of my ugliness on anyone else.
The Princess Cabbage-Stalk felt very forlorn when she was gone, and began to think that it was quite time her father sent an army to rescue her.
In the meantime the Princess Cabbage-Stalk had reached the palace, travelling in a litter.
In the corn-stalk the woody threads are not very numerous, and the pith is very abundant; in most of the tropical trees belonging to this group the threads of wood are so numerous as to make the material very durable and fit for furniture.
Applied to a leaf or other part when the stem or stalk is attached within the margin on the side.
Trees or shrubs with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves, having spines on each side of the stalk in place of stipules.
Flowers yellow; ovary silky, on a stalk half as long as the bracts.
If a young leaf stalk of Clematis be rubbed for a few moments, especially on the under side, it will be found in a day or two to be turned inward, and the tendrils of the Cucumber vine will coil in a few minutes after being thus irritated.
Let the pupils compare the branches which they have described, with a stalk of Asparagus, Rattan, or Lily.
Twist off the leaf-stalk of any leaf, and trace the bundles into the stem.
If two stalks twining in opposite directions be slit as above described, the side of the stem towards which each stalk is bent will spring back more than the other, showing the tension to be greater on that side.
If a leaf-stalk of Nasturtium be slit vertically for an inch or two, the two halves will spring back abruptly.
Every blade and stalk was covered with rime in the early morning when we marched over the ice in a direction north, 19 deg.
In hilly country they stalk them against the wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
