No thick stalks of unbending and forbidding "bouquets" disfigure her pretty vases.
Then have celery sandwiches made of thin slices of bread rolled around tender splintered stalks of celery, and dainty lettuce sandwiches with the lettuce crisp and cold and the mayonnaise of good stiffness and small cups of coffee.
Whether it be wet or dry dust, or mud, the work is thoroughly performed; it is all drawn into the receptacle provided for it, and the huge horse stalks backward and forward along the street until it is almost as clean as a drawing-room.
The stalks of the plantain are juicy and herbaceous, and of so yielding a texture, that with a sickle you might entirely sever the largest of them at a single stroke.
The female lays her eggs on an inartificially constructed platform of decayed leaves or stalks of marsh plants, slightly elevated above the water.
From all that stalks abroad with intent to slay, the friends of the palefaces will guard them.
He no longer stalks a giant in the land, but he has dwindled down to the most delightful of minstrel-pages that ever brought song and music into a lady's chamber.
Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the mouldering flowers.
His sweet orange trees budded upon wild stalks cut off (which every where abound), about six months before had large tops, and the buds were swelling as if preparing to flower.
In seven months it had attained the height of thirteen feet; the stalks were ten inches in circumference, and had upwards of five hundred large boles on each stalk (not a worm nor red bug as yet to be seen).
Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep.
In the next hour the red-tiled colored adobe hamlets of the small farmers began to give place to the jacals of the country, flimsy huts with sides of cane stalks and grass-thatched.
Both the first and second stalks failed, owing partly to bad marking in the first case, and to 'impossible' terrain in the second.
The Stilts make a fairly solid nest of dead black stalks of tamarisk, &c.
Gigantic aloes with broad spiked blades and towering stalks stud the rocky declivities, and the cactus, wild fig, and other sub-tropical forms of plant-life lend character to the scenery.
From some realm of calamity has Sandip come as its messenger; and as he stalks the land, muttering unholy incantations, to him flock all the boys and youths.
Some germ finds its way in from somewhere, and then in the space of one night Death stalks in.
Its melancholy pageantry traverses the streets of wealthy quarters, and it stalks abroad hourly in the slums, and few there are who gaze after it.
Lay the stalksof American endive in a dish and cut into small pieces a medium shallot.
Make a gravy of a cupful of clear stock in which tarragon stalks have been boiled for an hour, dish up the fowl on a hot platter, pour over the sauce, straining it, and sprinkle on top tarragon leaves blanched and coarsely chopped.
Sprigs of fresh chickory make the daintiest of garnishes for cold meats, and a few of the tender green stalks will add to the appearance of practically any salad.
The common kind is known to have small pinnated leaves growing on stalks imperfectly ligneous.
Brushing through the wet weeds and rusty, standing stalks of blade-stripped corn, we climbed a rail fence and entered a faint trail along the laureled bank of a trout stream.
He had already devised for himself an experimental pair of sandals from the rinds of the ball-tree fruit and the stalks of the Moontrees.
They could hear the sounds ofstalks cracking far behind them as they ran.
On the other hand, he found that when he removed the little yellow balls from the top of the light stalks on the creature, they remained glowing--even as do the abdomens of fireflies.
He piled some trunks of dead tree stalks in a cleared spot; he lit them with one of his matches.
He struggled to use his full strength against them but his arms were pinned to his sides, he was tight amid the stalks and he could not brace himself.
He realized that that was probably the case; it very likely explained the nearly complete lack of pigment in the flesh of the native animals, the presence of the lightstalks on all of them.
When he had amassed enough to see him through at least two weeks, he gathered the fallen trunks and dried-up old stalks and piled them in the narrow entrance to this storage cave.
He was sticky from them, for the stalks had been soaked in some sort of adhesive substance which had made them so effective.
He saw behind him only the bruised and broken stalks of the ball-trees he'd passed through.
Cheeky had leaped into the stalks and was swinging through them ahead of him, when suddenly the monkey uttered a terrified shriek and there arose a strange high-pitched barking sound.
Plants growing in clumps and clusters, plants whose large treelike stalks resembled a whitish-blue bamboo, and which burst into globular blue bulbs which seemed to serve as leaves.
This field he had always known of a wild and desolate aspect, bristled with the tall stalks of the mullein.
After watching them for some minutes, I began to make inquiries as to what the stalks were for.
Gather together some corn stalksthis autumn, let them dry, and stock a farm for yourself.
I noticed that the stalks were old and brittle, and that the boys preserved the hull.
They were tied only at the seed end, and the base of the stalks was spread out forming a tent-shaped stack, called a stook.
The stalks were then tied in bundles called beats or bates and stacked.
When dry, the stalks were watered to rot the leaves and softer fibres.
When the flax plants were three or four inches high, they were weeded by young women or children who had to work barefoot, as the stalks were very tender.
There was the same planting in hills, the same number of stalks in the hill, with pumpkin-vines running among the hills, and beans climbing the stalks.
As the house-maids slice the turnips, As they lop the heads of cabbage, As the stalks of flax are broken, So the heads of Louhi's heroes Fall before the magic broadsword Of the ancient Wainamoinen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
