If you examine with a lens some of the richest colours of flowers, as, for instance, those of the gentian and dianthus, you will find their texture is produced by a crystalline or sugary frost-work upon them.
In the lychnis of the high Alps, the red and white have a kind of sugary bloom, as rich as it is delicate.
All the starches from vegetables have, as the end products of their digestion, various forms of sugary material.
As we have just seen, the sugary liquid in the root hairs is denser than the soil water outside, and, furthermore, none of it is allowed to escape.
The sun was just setting when the captain and Chris reappeared bearing gourds full of smoking fish, and sweet sugary yams, and ears of curious small kernelled Indian corn.
Little fool Ivan caught the Tsarevna Baktriana in his heroic hands, kissed her sugary lips, exchanged rings with her, and was borne as by a whirlwind into the meadow, overturning all that met him or stood in his way.
Fenist fell in love with her more than ever, kissed her on her sugary mouth, and bade them set the bells a-ringing without delay, and assemble the Boyars and the Princes and the men of every degree in the market-place.
It is here that she seems to pair, while sipping the sugary exudations of the small white flowers.
Her slender legs would be strained and deformed by merely sweeping away a little dust; her mouth is a sucker for gathering the sugary exudations of the flowers and not the solid pincers needed for the crumbling of cement.
We haven't met here to make sugary speeches, or to burrow in the old ashes.
These are in communication with a little gland which produces a sugary liquid.
The Gallinsecta also furnish the ants with sugary liquids.
In all places where plant-lice are assembled in great numbers it is easy to observe how excessively fond ants are of the sugaryliquid destined for suckling the young.
He then put in some flies, when it was easy to see some of them proceed to fix themselves to the sides of the vase, and regale themselves on the sugary liquid, of which they are very fond.
It contains some sugar, but is usually employed in conjunction with sulphuric acid or with sugary materials.
Myrabolans are amongst the mostsugary of tanning materials, containing up to 5-1/2 per cent.
It is known that the sugary pulp outside the beans ferments in a similar way to other fruit pulp, save that for a yeast fermentation the temperature rises unusually high (in three days to 47 degrees C.
Just as grape-pulp ferments and changes to wine, and just as weak wine if left exposed becomes sour; so the fruity sugary pulp outside the cacao bean on exposure gives off bubbles of carbon dioxide, becomes alcoholic, and later becomes acid.
After meat and blood, sugary fruit-pulp; sometimes even, for lack of anything better, a little green stuff.
Mademoiselle Prefere, suddenly awakened from her dream, indignantly pushed away the sugary splinter of earthenware, and deemed it opportune to inform me that she herself was exceedingly skilful in making confectionery.
I think I have been able to show that the nectary of the plant distils a sugary liquid which attracts the insects and obliges it to aid unconsciously in the work of direct or cross fertilisation.
However, the self-sealing jars are much better than keeping such fruit in large receptacles, from which it is taken as needed, because molds grow freely on moist, sugary substances exposed to the air.
One fact often neglected by Southern growers who raise potatoes for a Northern market is that the Northern markets demand a potato that will cook dry and mealy, and that they will not accept the juicy, sugary potato so popular in the South.
The nectar is a sugary solution found in the bottom of the flower and is used by the visitor as food or to make honey.
For example, when living in a sugary substance they change the sugar into a gas and an alcohol.
In September the hackberry hangs full of its sugary fruits.
They hang by their tails on the branches, or prop themselves in crotches of the limbs within easy reach of the soft, sugary berries.
The sugar maples which we tap in spring for their sugary sap, have dark, furrowed bark, not very distinctive.
The berries we may safely taste to find out if they are as sugary as we are led to expect.
This starch is contained in the sugary sap that flows back constantly from the leaves to the farthest root tips.
These and such-like are the sweet, sugarywords they preach, crying: Peace, Peace!
She possessed two smiles--a sugarysmile (with which I was already acquainted), and an acid smile which she apparently reserved for special occasions.
I thought this would induce the sugarysmile to show itself.
An avenue of limes has been ravaged and torn in pieces by the eagerness of the people to gather the blossoms, and they are often made into tea which is a soft sugary beverage in taste a little like licorice.
Do not scrape out the saucepan or allow the last of the syrup to drip from it, as sugary portions will spoil the fondant by making it grainy.
These caramels aresugary and brittle, and can be made in the hottest weather without trouble.
The sugary coating hardens under the whites and the lighter shades--it only remains tacky under the blacks.
The plate is then washed with water, and all the sugary coating removed, leaving the surface of the copper bare, except where it is protected by the bitumen forming the image.
The sugary coating thus becomes very hard in the exposed parts, but under the powder it is broken, porous, and permeable to acids.
The plate is cleaned, then coated again with the sugary preparation, and exposed a second time under the positive, care being taken to preserve an accurate register, which may easily be done.
It only remains to clear off the bichromated sugary coating which forms the reserve, and which, being hardened by the heat, resists ordinary washing.
Well, goodness knows I am glad to be by myself for a while and keep quiet," thought the sugary chap, as he sat down on the shelf in the dark.
Only, of course, Patrick did not know he had the sugary fellow.
Oh, thank you, I can get up myself," answered the sugary chap.
The sweet chap turned so quickly that he almost cracked one of hissugary ears.
She had just put the cake into the oven to bake, and there were several dishes on the table--dishes in which were dabs of sweet, sugary icing and cake batter.
They were now in a grove of cytisus and acacias, from whose clustering blossoms fell a soft, almost sugary perfume.
He could also taste it coming with a more and more pronounced savour, bringing the healthful acridity of the open air, holding to his lips a feast of sugary aromatics, sour fruits, and milky shoots.
