It was an electric chain of communication, and never until some Xenobi of a houri hands the Howadji the nargileh of Paradise, will the smoke of the weed of Shiraz float so lightly, or so sweetly taste.
Cold, O cold indeed Were her fair limbs, and like a common weed The sea-swell took her hair.
Parliament also took the fate of this weed into their most solemn deliberation.
The winds and partial currents in different years slightly affect the position and extent of these Atlantic "sea-weed meadows.
A mass of the tangle was hauled on board, and the men amused themselves by stamping on the hollow air-cells which give the weed its buoyancy, producing a series of cracks like the explosion of fire-crackers.
In the purple shadow of the weed beds bright-colored fish were moving lazily to and fro, but these darted swiftly away at the approach of the steamer.
To cut down a weed is, therefore, to do a moral action.
Everywhere that royal weed of Britain, the nettle.
Nothing blurs or mars the hue; no stalk of weed or stem of dry grass.
Now the most abundant song-bird in Britain is the chaffinch, the most conspicuous wild flower (at least in those parts of the country I saw) is the foxglove, and the most ubiquitous weed is the nettle.
I little suspected that rank dark-green weed there amid the grass under the old apple-trees, where the blue speedwell and cockscombs grew, to be a nettle.
The brown mats of sea-weed that appeared from time to time were like islands, bits of earth.
Sometimes they sat down on the sea, near patches of brown sea-weed that rolled over the waves with a movement like carpets on a line in a gale.
The little boat, lifted by each towering sea, and splashed viciously by the crests, made progress that in the absence of sea-weed was not apparent to those in her.
Yet this glorious young hero was drowned--wrecked off a coral-reef, and flung like a weed on the waters.
The sweet waters will always gush out over the sandiest desert of our lives while we can love; but without it--nay, not the merestweed of comfort or of virtue would grow under the feet of angels.
The sea-weed was growing upon his clothes, and he had a monstrous beard.
The chief difficulty in the way of accepting this theory is the enormous quantity of sea-weed required to produce the millions of tons of nitric acid these deposits contain.
Kelp, a product got by burning sea-weed in Scotland, is also a rich potassic manure.
A small portion of it, it may be argued, is eventually recovered in sea weed and fish, which may be used for manure.
This sea-weed proved to be a great acquisition on more accounts than one.
Nothwithstanding their success in finding the loam, and this last discovery of a means of getting sea-weed in large supplies to the Reef, Mark was not very sanguine of success in his gardening.
In a month or two, should as much rain as usual fall, it was probable the sea-weed would be far gone in decay.
Exposure to the air and water, with mixing up with sea-weed and such other waste materials as he could collect, the young man fancied would enable him to obtain a sufficiency of earthy substances to sustain the growth of plants.
Mark had no sooner set them at work on the sea-weed and shell-fish that abounded there, for the time being at least, than he foresaw he should have to erect a gate at his bridge, and keep the hogs here most of the time.
On this occasion, Bob enjoyed his two favourite occupations to satiety, masticating the weed while he fished.
Indeed, one of the greatest consolations this man possessed, under the present misfortune, was the ample store of this weed which was to be found in the ship.
On the reefs, in every direction, considerable quantities of sea-weed had lodged, temporarily at least; but none of it appeared to have found its way to this particular place.
What a different place this here rock's got to be, sir, from what it was when you and I was floating sea-weed and rafting loam to it, to make a melon or a cucumber bed!
Bob now joined his friend on the crater-wall, and assisted in carrying the sea-weed to the places prepared to receive it, when both of the mariners next set about mixing it up with the other ingredients of the intended soil.
An old divine said that when a good farmer sees a weed in his field he has it pulled up.
Next day several boats fished right above the cap of the Virgin; and Harvey, with them, looked down on the very weed of that lonely rock, which rises to within twenty feet of the surface.
Her old-style quarterdeck was some or five feet high, and her rigging flew knotted and tangled like weed at a wharf-end.
The May-weed had white flowers like a moon-daisy, but not so large, and leaves like moss.
He loved them and held them tight in his hand, and went on, leaving the red pimpernel wide open to the dry air behind him, but the May-weed was everywhere.
The soft green of the smooth weed received the shadows as if specially prepared to show them to advantage.
I was tempted, so for fear I would weaken I got out of bed, and with my bare feet crushed the dirty weed all to smithereens.
Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
It is a doleful religion that uproots every flower in the garden as a noxious weed until only the naked brown earth remains to gaze upon in the blessed sunshine.
You never need remain indoors to smoke or sew or yawn because there is nothing doing in the garden: you can weed there the livelong day in the open.
He had learned that at Arlington in helping Ben superintend the curing of the weed for the servants' use.
He took time to show them how to grip the leaf to best advantage and rip the stem with a quick movement that left scarcely a trace of the weed clinging to it.
He is told of a weed which restores youth to the one grown old.
Scarcely has he obtained theweed when it is snatched away from him, and the tablet closes somewhat obscurely with the prediction of the destruction of Erech.
It is called greening weed and used to be much used for greening blue wool.
Every dyer has his particular yellow weed with which he greens his blue dyed stuff.
Professor Moseley tells us that all the inhabitants of the Gulf-weed are most remarkably coloured, for purposes of protection and concealment, exactly like the weed itself.
The shrimps and crabs which swarm in the weed are of exactly the same shade of yellow as the weed, and have white markings upon their bodies to represent the patches of Membranipora.
The most noxious weed in New Zealand appears, however, to be the Hypochaeris radicata, a coarse yellow-flowered composite not uncommon in our meadows and waste places.
Some American plants, like the cotton-weed (Asclepias cuiussayica), have now become common weeds over a large portion of the tropics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
