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Example sentences for "sundew"

Lexicographically close words:
sundaie; sundawn; sunder; sundered; sundering; sundews; sundial; sundials; sundown; sundowner
  1. For, in the first place, he is clearly one of that class of poets who are also prophets.

  2. Where we cannot know, we may still feel; and the religious man may have, in his own feeling of the divine, a more intimate conviction of the reality of that in which he trusts, than could be produced by any intellectual process.

  3. Nay, we may go further, and say that the demand is an unjust one, which betrays ignorance of the true nature of moral intuition and religious feeling.

  4. Hence, there seems to be ground for saying that, in this instance, the witness cannot lie; for it cannot go before the fact, as it is itself the effect of the fact.

  5. Can love, or emotion in any of its forms, reveal truths to man which his intellect cannot discover?

  6. The sundew belongs to the natural order Droseraceæ.

  7. Closely related to the sundew is the Venus fly-trap (Dionæa muscipula, Ellis).

  8. Good instances of such homologous cures are afforded by the common Buttercup, the wild Pansy, and the Sundew of our boggy marshes.

  9. So the Sundew may fairly be accepted as a medicinal Simple for laryngeal and pulmonary consumption in its early stages, as well as for whooping-cough, after the manner already explained.

  10. Externally, the juice [546] of the fresh Sundew has been used for destroying warts.

  11. Some writers say the word Sundew means "sin" ever, moist (dew).

  12. Regarded from such point the Sundew may be justly pronounced a homoeopathic antidote to consumptive disease of the nature here indicated, when attacking spontaneously from constitutional causes.

  13. Moreover, country folk notice that sheep who eat the Sundew in their pasturage have often a violent cough, and waste away.

  14. The Sundew (Ros solis, or Drosera rotundifolia) is a little plant always eagerly recognised in marshy and heathy grounds by ardent young botanists.

  15. You'll find among the marshes The sundew and the pitcher plant; in shallows, Where the green scum floats languidly you'll find The water lily with white petals and A sickly perfume.

  16. But the sundew catches The midges flitting by with rainbow wings, Impales them on its tiny spines, in time Devours them.

  17. This was not compassion that the ecstacies with which a zoophyte was discovered, or the glad cries with which a bit of sundew was hailed, must be such transient joys.

  18. The Venus' Fly Trap and the Sundew will be mentioned when we are discussing Insectivorous Plants.

  19. An insect flying about near the Sundew is sure to be attracted by the conspicuous glittering, reddish leaves, and probably alights upon it.

  20. The other British plant is the Sundew (Drosera).

  21. In 1860 he had already begun to observe Sundew (Drosera), and was full of astonishment at its behaviour.

  22. Macfarlane has discovered a natural hybrid between two species of sundew in the swamps near Atco, N.

  23. Rather more than half the volume is devoted to one subject, the round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), a rather common plant in the northern temperate zone.

  24. The sensitiveness in the sundew is all in the gland which surmounts the tentacle.

  25. The more common round-leaved sundew acts as well as the other by its bristles, and the leaf itself is sometimes almost equally prehensile, although in a different way, infolding the whole border instead of the summit only.

  26. But Windflower and Sundew did not perish.

  27. But his little daughter Sundew laughed, and played with him every day, and she mended his broken heart for him very well, although it was never quite the same as it had been before.

  28. The same process takes place in the sundew (Fig.


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