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Sentence Examples For instance, there are botanical-based hair colorants rich in herbs such as nettle, sage, red sorrel, rosemary and burdock. Almost everyone is familiar with the nettle through its formidable sting, but few know about the important role it plays in the natural world. Flea beetles also feed on many nongarden plants, including Virginia creeper, pokeweed, horse nettle, pigweed and wild mustard family plants. What will also nettle Waugh is Ricky Ponting's success as Australia's new one-day skipper. We have to grasp like a nettle the fact that the A64 needs to be dualled right through from York to Scarborough. Commonly used agents include African plum, South African star grass, stinging nettle, and rye pollen. She bought a small bottle of stinging nettle tincture and placed one eyedropper-full twice a day under her tongue. The tiny stingers of the nettle plant provide microinjections of several chemicals responsible for the stinging sensation the plant causes. He warned the country could be facing another crisis unless the next Government grasps the nettle of public spending. Still, grasping the nettle like this is probably his only chance, slim though it is. I think the Government has really grasped the nettle, because this is a major issue for everybody now. Tackling mental health, grasping the nettle of introducing rights-based legislation will come at a cost. The problems facing it will only get worse until someone grasps the nettle. In central Texas, coreopsis, brown-eyed susans, bull nettle, purple horsemint, basil beebalm, lantana and dayflowers continue to bloom. Docken, like dandelion, nettle, ground elder, bindweed and couch-grass belongs to that troublesome group of wild flowers called perennial weeds. Other plants are false nettle, a pink Saint-John's wort, and two species of white-flowered smartweeds. The nettle is great for enriching and purifying the blood to help with circulatory disorders. Vegetables were not cultivated, but came in the form of wild carrots, turnip and garlic, along with salad leaves such as sorrel, nettle and dock. The women wore deerskin dresses, leggings, moccasins, and petticoats made of woven nettle or thistle fibers. Interplant with horseradish, dead nettle, catnip, coriander, nasturtiums, and tansy. Show More Sentences Ground ivy and poison ivy grow in shade, while dead nettle, dandelions, and clover thrive in fertile soil. A boar statant gules armed and hoofed or holding in the mouth a nettle leaf vert. I remember them being everywhere when I was a nipper and a nettle sting was tantamount to being bitten by a dog. The herbs chamomile, valerian, yarrow, nettle, comfrey and dandelion can help make a success of your compost heap. He cooked them using instructions from a book on fieldcraft which he borrowed from the library, and says nettle tea was a favourite. Wildflowers here include water parsnip, fringed loosestrife, and hedge nettle. In three small studies, men taking nettle root reported slightly better urine flow than men who were given a placebo. She would use the nettle to discreetly sting herself when arthritis stiffened her fingers. This one makes for easy drinking despite the crushed stinging nettle and bramble flavours. A further deterrent is the prevalence of wood nettle and stinging nettle, which have acid-tipped hairs on their stems and leaves. Drink nettle or dandelion teas and eat foods rich in vitamin B6, including sunflower seeds, brown rice, buckwheat and avocados. But it's clear that some of the more caustic comments about them continue to nettle Mik Pyro. Home winemaking still suffers something of an image problem, with those jokes about Aunt Enid's undrinkable nettle wine. The young and tender nettle is an excellent pot-herb and the stalks are good as flax for making cloth. Star restaurants are offering customers the chance to go feral with bonnes bouches like nettle froth and rowan sorbet. I think that, if I ever buy a new computer, I shall grasp the nettle and change over to a decently powerful laptop. For stomach trouble, drink a tea of the common nettle or of spearmint. With its stems covered by sharp barbs, stinging nettle is not a very friendly looking herb, but when it comes to fighting aging it can be a worthwhile ally. The formula contained nettle leaf, violet leaf, wild oat seed, chamomile flowers, cleavers and fenugreek seed added to warm spearmint tea or diluted juice. Thane roared when two nettle like things pierced his shoulder skin. Show More Sentences Some of the wartime recipes you will find are rhubarb bread pudding, nettle champ, Irish stew with venison, kedgeree, hardtime omelette and mock plum pudding. Itchiness caused by a nettle rash, heat rash, allergy rash, or a rash that results from a viral infection may be relieved by a paste of bicarbonate of soda and water. The roots of the stinging nettle contain a complex mixture of water and alcohol-soluble compounds including lectins, phenols, sterols, and lignans. True to its common name, the East Coast sea nettle, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, lives along the United States' eastern shore and plagues swimmers with painful welts. Gunn Eriksen had already been approached to write a book of her recipes, which use local produce and unexpected ingredients such as hawthorn, nettle and sorrel. From these various composts, special preparations are made using such things as silica, yarrow, chamomile, nettle, oak bark, dandelion and horsetail. But this warbler is usually associated with tangled vegetation near water or with reedbeds containing alders and an undergrowth including bramble, nettle and willowherb. The new parish council is grasping the nettle to deal with vandalism. Clover, sorrel, nettle and thistle are common, and grow wild in Greater Manchester. This is obviously a pricklier nettle to grasp than the intra-Super League scenario. John's Wort, teasel, and wild lettuce, in the shade of the canopy, find wood mint, wood nettle, leafcup, touch-me-not, lopseed, and avens. The stinging apparatus of the sea nettle consists of a nematocyst filled with venoms located primarily on the fishing tentacles of the animal. Green alkanet, white dead nettle, vetches and crucifers are blooming away too in many locations now that the weather is warming up. Do we still have nettle trees, catalpas, sassafras, mulberry trees, larches, spice bushes, slippery elms, etc. Medicinally, nettle possesses astringent, tonic, antiseptic, depurative, homeostatic and diuretic properties. Mr Chisholm said the area has a nettle patch which supports butterfly eggs, including those of the Peacock butterfly. Dandelion, plantain, coltsfoot, stinging nettle, greater celandine and dozens of other plants were used medicinally. The new species are members of the genus Pilea, which is part of the nettle family. If your favorite insect is the red-spotted purple butterfly, plant some wood nettle and milkweed. Plants to consider in the treatment of iron deficiency include agrimony, centaury, barberry, ginger, nettle and yellow dock. Show More Sentences Key ingredients in the formulation include Ajuga plant stem cells, saw palmetto, pea sprout bioactives and nettle. President Truman, when at last he grasped the nettle and dismissed MacArthur, knew well enough the outcry that would follow. Hence it was that a few dozen policemen, resolutely grasping the nettle, had no difficulty in handling it. The lions symbolize Schleswig, and the nettle leaf Holstein, thus expressing the town's unity with these two historic lands. Fibres from pulpwood trees, cotton, rice, hemp, and nettle are used in making paper. Other plant fibers which can be spun include bamboo, hemp, corn, nettle, and soy fiber. A quick and easy remedy for nettle stings is to rub bracken on the affected area. The juice it releases alleviates the sting, and bracken often grows near stinging nettle. I've tried the usual remedies, including old wives' remedies like cold nettle soup, wolf spider syrup and crushed virgin tigers' tails, all to no avail. Nonwoody plants included marsh buttercup, blue flag, brookweed, marsh purslane, warty arrowhead, stingless nettle, large spikerush, turgid sedge, and basket grass. Lizard's tail and wood nettle seeding, parsnip, honewort and sweet cicely seedfalls coincide with the end off white and yellow sweet clover and lilies. The remedies are derived from substances that come from often unlikely sounding plants, minerals or animals, such as arnica, poison ivy, stinging nettle and even crushed bees. While pausing for a refreshing home-made lemonade during a nettle pulling session last week, I watched the paperboy make his usual way across my beautifully tended lawn. And pregnant women specially, should avoid drinking herbal infusions such as nettle leaf, comfrey, yarrow and ma huang as they can cause miscarriage or early labour. Woodlands and wetlands keep their avens, enchanter's nightshade, lopseed, leafcup, touch-me-not, wood nettle, Joe Pye weed, monkey flower, and tall bell flower. That Tony Blair should wait until the dying days of his premiership before grasping the nettle of nuclear expansion has proved dangerously neglectful. When teasel flowers along the roadsides and wood nettle blooms in the woods, then bagworms attack arborvitae, euonymus, juniper, linden, maple and fir. The Immigration Minister says Australia is not obliged to follow the UN request, prompting Senator Nettle to put the question again. Nettle rash can also be treated by applying a drop or two of eucalyptus oil to the affected area. This Nettle kail was in some regions a traditional dish for Shrove Tuesday, or to celebrate the arrival of spring. Show More Sentences Nettle rash is characterised by a lumpy, itchy rash with red spots. A quarter of the intrepid 4,000 contestants who started the Nettle Warrior Tough Guy challenge failed to finish because of the summer-turned wintry conditions. It has also been known as Shick Shack Day or Oak and Nettle Day. The only significant potholes are Eldon Hole and Nettle Pot. Nettle cloth was dyed in various shades of gray, green and brown. Examples from Classical Literature It feeds on stinging nettle, probably on other plants, and after hibernation attains full growth about May. This is a much more attractive plant than the stinging nettle we have all learned to avoid. Ever since, the nettle grows profusely and ineradicably round the Tower of Seneca, as a warning to moral philosophers. The natives eat extensively the bulbs of the Martagon lily, and weave cloth out of the fibres of the Kamchatka nettle. They sting, as their trivial name indicates, like a nettle when incautiously touched. It feeds during August on the stinging nettle, and various other low herbs. This plant resembles ramie and belongs to the nettle family also, but it is without the troublesome resin of the ramie. The sea nettle wanders to and fro by night, and at night changes its locality. But the sting certainly does not exhaust the whole philosophy of the nettle. Then she bruised every nettle with her bare feet and plaited the green flax. He had his cattle and his wild pot-herbs, such as the mugwort and the nettle. It was a large island, with an abundance of hemp nettle, but I did not notice any kind of red paint there. The strawberry is no more a plagiarist than the smilax, nor the grape than the nettle. Traced back to its earliest state, the nettle arises, as the man does, in a particle of nucleated protoplasm. As soon suspect a rosebud of foregoing its own sweet personality, and of being in reality something else, say a stinging nettle. Hugh John took hold of her dainty gloved fingers as gingerly as if each had been a stinging nettle, and dropped them as quickly. It is a very common moth, flying at dusk during June and July in waste places where the stinging nettle grows. At the same time these plants are far more troublesome and dangerous weeds than the stinging nettle. She drew a long breath of desperation and grasped the nettle firmly. Mullein and nettle, henbane and wormwood, all are English emigrants. Show More Sentences Or the stings, and minute, colourless blossoming of the nettle? In the nettle it takes the form of a tiny, seed-like, flattened nut. Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse. The sensation was as bad as that from a nettle, but more like that caused by the Physalia or Portuguese man-of-war. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. At Eccleston Mere, coltsfoot, red dead nettle and yellow charlock are flowering away, and Jim found good patches of flowering lesser celandine in Rufford. Shakespeare's mention of the Strawberry and the Nettle deserves a passing note. Those of us who shilly-shally and fear the cost of doing what is right can draw strength from the thought that 'Out of this Nettle, Danger, we pluck this flower, Safety. Find more words! 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