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Example sentences for "wild thyme"

  • It's Thyme, Wild Thyme; it has run into the edge of the lawn from the field, and is just ruining the grass.

  • M51 Seeds of fir-cones, wild thyme, elder-flowers, and purple loosestrife gathered for magical purposes at Midsummer.

  • So they ran away from the others to the edge of the field where Eric had discovered Wild Thyme, and there on the even, grassy ground Ivra showed him how to dance.

  • When those saw who it was Eric had captured they ran to meet her, shouting gayly, "Wild Thyme!

  • But now, in a flash, as his fingers closed on Wild Thyme's hair, he knew that he could indeed do that, and anything else he really set his heart on.

  • Wild Thyme is subject to variations in the size and colour of its flowers, as well as in the habits of the varieties.

  • Tournefort writes: "A conserve made from the flowers and leaves of wild Thyme (Serpyllum) relieves those troubled with the falling sickness, whilst the distilled oil promotes the monthly flow in women.

  • Fairies and elves were reputed to be specially fond of Wild Thyme.

  • In the South of France, when a summons to attend a meeting of the votaries of Marianne is sent, it is accompanied by tufts of Wild Thyme, or Ferigoule, that being the symbol of advanced Republicanism.

  • The Swedes and Scotch have a tradition that Christ was scourged with a rod of the dwarf Birch, which was once a noble tree, but has ever since remained stunted and lowly.

  • Near the city of On there was shown for many centuries the sacred Fig-tree under which the Holy Family rested.

  • So they moved, between the finished and tested line at one point and the warning bell and the dynamite stick at the other; and there was an end of much gorse and heath and of many banks of flowering campion and hassocks of wild thyme.

  • The Forest of Wild Thyme," Alfred Noyes, contains much in the way of music.

  • If you want proof of this, read "The Forest of Wild Thyme" or "The Flower of Old Japan" to your children and watch them sit with open mouths and open hearts to hear these wonder fairy tales.

  • In Part II of "The Forest of Wild Thyme" one sees this clearly.

  • He closed his eyes and there came to his memory, sweet and sharp, the odour of wild thyme.

  • Standing with his hat in his hand at the threshold of the little chapel, Robin Drummond had a memory of the scent of wild thyme.

  • There was a bruised sweetness in the atmosphere about them, which they discovered presently to be wild thyme.

  • I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wild thyme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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