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Example sentences for "succory"

Lexicographically close words:
succinic; succor; succored; succoring; succors; succotash; succour; succoured; succouring; succours
  1. From the depth to which the tap-root penetrates, it is not unlikely the succory derived its name from the Latin succurrere = to run under.

  2. Treat the humours with syrup of borage, succory made with a poultice, and then take the following pills, according to the patient's strength.

  3. It will be necessary to purge these ill humours out of the whole habit of the child, by giving half an ounce of succory and rhubarb.

  4. Let the air be cool, her garments thin, and her food endive, lettuce, succory and barley.

  5. Make a decoction and dissolve syrup of succory in it, and two ounces of rhubarb; pound half an ounce of cassia with a few drops of oil of aniseed and make a draught.

  6. In vain; the same withering drought rests upon everything like a curse, and in the midst of the brown monotony bloom succory and field-poppies.

  7. The grass along the roadside was yellow and dry; blue succory bloomed everywhere among it; here and there a bunch of wild poppies hung drooping on their slender stalks.

  8. Common white succory is eaten in salads, and used for ragouts.

  9. Wild white succory is only good to eat in salads.

  10. Her husband did not seem at all agitated by this statement, but directed that some of the succory water should be given to a dog to ascertain its effects.

  11. After calling for a glass of succory water, which she drank, she dined.

  12. Suddenly she raised herself upon her elbow, and said to those weeping around her, "I have been poisoned by the succory water which I have drank.

  13. She called for another draught of succory water.

  14. Many call Chicory or Succory our bluest flower.

  15. The Succory is an example of a plant, known certainly to flower students, yet little thought of by careless observers until the beautiful poem of Margaret Deland touched all who read it.

  16. She rivals the Succory in beautifying arid dust heaps and barren railroad cuts, with her tender opalescent pink tints.

  17. The flowers of Succory used to rank among the four cordial flowers, and a water was distilled from them to allay inflammation of the eyes.

  18. The Syrup of Succory is an excellent laxative for children.

  19. The chemical constituents of Succory and Chicory are--in addition to those ordinarily appertaining to vegetables--inulin, and a special bitter principle not named.

  20. The Succory or Cichorium was known to the Romans, and was eaten by them as a vegetable, or in salads.

  21. This Succory plant bears also the name of Rostrum porcinum.

  22. Some writers suppose the Succory to be the Horehound of the Bible.

  23. They dropped from about her, the flapper's frock of succory blue and the silken under-garments, and with them she seemed to cast off as well that rather feverish sprightliness of the last hour.

  24. The first of these Intentions is best effected by the Syrup of Succory [86] just mentioned.

  25. Take of the Roots of Grass and of Succory well washed, each one Ounce.

  26. It is usual, after Purges, to take some thin Broth or Soup during their Operation; but warm Water sweetened with Sugar or Honey, or an Infusion of Succory Flowers, would sometimes be more suitable.

  27. Chicory, (or Succory as the vulgar call it) cools and strengthens the liver, so doth Endive.

  28. THE garden Succory hath long and narrower leaves than the Endive, and more cut in or torn on the edges, and the root abides many years.

  29. The decoction thereof with Succory and Centaury is held very effectual to help the dropsy, and them that are inclining thereunto, and the diseases of the spleen.

  30. The leaves of the Wild Succory are rough and hairy all over, and are a grey-green colour.

  31. This is the succory (Cichorium Intybus of the botanists), described by Emerson as “succory to match the sky.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "succory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.