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Sentence Examples It doesn't look as if it's been used for some time, as a small jungle of bushes, nettles and weeds have grown up around it. Using rubber gloves, put nettles in two litres of salted boiling water for a second to remove the sting then plunge them into iced water. Distraction could be provided by rubbing the patient with counterirritants such as stinging nettles. Meadow flowers, like cow parsley and nettles, were being grazed by the occasional elk or aurochs. He wanders in the nearby hills and woods to gather cuckooflowers, cowslips, stitchworts, elder flowers and of course nettles. This is rarer and is usually caused by weeds such as nettles and docks, late flowering plants and fungal spores. I wrapped up under plenty of layers, but could still feel the cold inside my gloves and the nettles along the side of the road were frosty. For instance, nettles that he sells to a local cheesemaker mean lucrative wildcrafting during the slow harvests of early spring. They have been sampling the sites for seeds of hairy nightshade, shepherd's purse, burning nettles, and other common weeds. Dead nettles are ground cover perennials with leaves that are marked in silver. I was out with this dangerous looking implement this afternoon, cutting down nettles, rosebay and docks nearly as tall as I am. In his pasture, edible weeds like dandelion, chicory, quack grass and even stinging nettles are allowed to thrive. This nettles her at first and gradually the anger and irritation give way to a secret longing for him to look at her. However, at another level, the nettles may be emblematic of the comments and gibes of women and men. One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh. In the forest by her house we picked wild raspberries, and I got stung by nettles. Inside, marijuana still grows wild among nettles, and ageing bearded hippies in Nepali waistcoats stand behind dope stalls. Beds of nettles are slashed to the ground when the caterpillars of red admiral and other butterflies are hatching for next year's generation. It looked for all the world like a very healthy clump of stinging nettles until it produced a fine display of large, pink flowers. There are some 300 species of Stachys, also known as betonies, hedge nettles and woundworts. Show More Sentences In order to save himself, he tore off all his clothes and jumped into a nearby bush of thorns and nettles, lacerating his whole body. She starts with either nettles or bee pollen, moving from there, if necessary, to an ambrosia or eye-bright tincture. In small numbers and backed by deep meadow grasses, nettles can be most beautiful plants when they're backlit with low summer evening sunshine. A few years ago, after clearing a slope obscured by fallen trees and nettles for use as a rhododendron glen, they discovered mountain beavers. Nutrients in fertiliser and slurry encourage aggressive species such as nettles and thistles at their expense. As they pushed through a tangle of stinging nettles and brambles, they made sure to keep heading in the right direction. Milkweed provides food for monarch butterfly larvae and stinging nettles host caterpillars of the red admiral butterfly. At least there I don't have to dodge overgrown thorn bushes and stinging nettles. I heard that stinging nettles could be used to help palsy, and thought immediately of her. The plot of land on a passageway was overrun with nettles and has not been touched for more than 20 years. Again, this is a place to include uncultivated herbs such as dandelion, chicory, chickweed, malva, watercress, nettles and mustard greens. A very good fasting tea is a combination of nettles, chickweed and fennel seed which also helps in weight reduction. They say that the parasitic plant which grows on nettles is nationally scarce and grows on only 100 sites across the country. Weed killers remove wildflowers and traditional grasses, then more aggressive species such as cleavers, thistles and nettles colonise. Plants we now consider to be weeds, such as nettles, dock, fat hen and meadowsweet, regularly appeared on the Iron Age menu. Use of citronella oil as a herbicide to eradicate any of ragwort, docks, nettles or thistles. Cynorhodon, ginseng, royal jelly, chicory, green mate, nettles, green tea contributes to a real drainage and purification of the soft body. He also sold bouquets of nettles, thistles, and headless flower stalks. This grass, acting like nettles, covers the body with an eruption at the slightest touch and forms large blisters. The blaeberries, crowberries, elderberries and stinging nettles, along with the more than 30 types of fungi which he finds in the forest, find their way onto his menu. Show More Sentences They did penance by lashing themselves with sharply stinging nettles. Early in the morning or on a free afternoon I was often found gathering nettles, searching for plantain or weeding houseleek. Alptea Relax: contains thyme, sage, mallow, camomile, lemon balm, nettles and edelweiss. Some claim to contain crushed bees, stinging nettles and even arsenic, as well as sugars such as lactose and sucrose. While Jacinta was plucking these plants, she happened to catch hold of some nettles and stung herself. It was pretty well dark by the time I got the tent floor pegged out on top of a bed of nettles. Rank patches of pasture that support metre high thistles, nettles and other weeds, are mown to ground level. The Taliban attack in Kabul would have taken place even if she was sitting morosely alone in a nunnery dressed in black and eating nettles. Now granny decided that we should not get either hives or boils so in the early spring we had to go and get some young nettles which she then boiled and strained. Grass yielded to rushes and nettles, which gave way to grass again, tufting scarps of millstone grit. Gnocchi with pheasant ragout and nettles Serves 4 Gnocchi is pretty simple and quick to make at home, certainly compared with making fresh pasta. There was a patch of stinging nettles and she wouldn't go through them. While the gnocchi is cooking, blanch the nettles in a little boiling salted water, then drain and toss in a little butter. These so-called host plants include many broadleaf weeds and cover crops such as nettles, mallow, chicory, dandelion, thistles, bindweed, deadly nightshade, and many clovers. There are several big holes in the grassy area around the playground, large stinging nettles and thistles, loose nuts and bolts on the park's railings and uneven ground. There is also a type of shchi that includes nettles and sorrel. Batistes, calicos, cretonnes and nettles for shirt and blouse interlinings. So it nettles me a little bit for people to question her qualifications. A scientist named Sarah, over from Boston just to do this run, claims they don't have nettles in America. Stinging nettles contain the most iron of all domestic herbs and vegetables. Show More Sentences Dog roses, bramble, nettles and thistles provide good for birds such as goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinches and the occasional rarity such as brambling or bullfinch. When I lived here twenty-odd years ago, I had almost no money and gathered mussels for my soup-pot, nettles, pried the meat out of winkles with a pin. When we got here the nettles and sticky burrs had grown very high. My bare legs were instantly stung by nettles, and a swarm of wasps gathered around the fake flower-reeds I had to drape myself in to become Titania. I do not suffer from those conditions, but years ago we carefully picked wild stinging nettles with clippers, dropping the nettles into a large paper sack. For example, the caterpillar of the small tortoiseshell butterfly will eat only stinging nettles, white admirals feed solely upon honeysuckle, and goldfinches eat only seed. Don't add tough perennial weeds such as ground elder, thistles and nettles as their roots are likely to survive and will spread with your compost. Waist-high weeds including stinging nettles line the track and reeds grow beside the row of trees, suggesting a murky dark line of water lies beneath them. As well as their important compost-creating role, nettles also provide excellent food for some butterflies and moths and are much-loved by ladybirds. Some of the herbs that have been shown to help with inadequate or slow milk supply are raspberry, nettles, anise, fenugreek and fennel seeds and alfalfa. Other plants are skin irritants, sun or not – alkanet, comfrey, nettles being the most obvious. Look for the caterpillars of the painted lady on nettles, and purple hairstreak on oaks. In addition to cereals the Greeks used figs, grapes, pomegranates, spinach, marrows, celery, nettles, hyacinth bulbs, artichokes, asparagus and honey. You got nasty choices like would you rather run thorough stinging nettles for 50 quid or roll in pig poo for a 100 quid? And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. They know which grasses and nettles are the most nutritious. The nettles are harvested manually, dried in the shade and then ground. Yet anyone familiar with their effects and preparation will not only tolerate stinging nettles, dandelion and ground elder in the flower bed but will also invite them into the kitchen as well. Since he was in a rush, he did not notice a bush of stinging nettles which eventually caressed his naked parts to his great disappointment and discomfort. Anyone who failed to wear a sprig of oak risked being pelted with bird's eggs or thrashed with nettles. Show More Sentences Plants such as wild garlic, nettles and watercress may have been gathered in the wild. Fibres from the stalks of plants, such as hemp, flax, and nettles, are also known as 'bast' fibres. Also occurs in stinging nettles and fir needles. Everybody knows butterflies adore buddleia, but the caterpillars of the red admiral love nettles. As well as nettles, kidney vetch and trefoil are the top plants for attracting butterflies. Dandelion, horsetail, melissa, ribwort and stinging nettles are grown and harvested in Germany. Honey bees also like thistles and all appreciate wild flowers, such as buddleja, borage, comfrey, knapweed, teasels, nettles and clovers. Stinging nettles are used by beautiful butter-flies like small tortoiseshells and peacocks to lay their eggs. Three cotoneaster bushes are blossoming and a strident spear thistle towers above the nettles there. He also feeds his trees with composted wood chips, plants comfrey around the roots and sprays them with concoctions of horsetail and stinging nettles. And, the clincher, camels drink little water and cheerfully eat nettles and prickly shrubs, the plants that seemed to grow here in great abundance. Because the 1,500 competitors taking part in today's Tough Guy event in Wolverhampton will have to wade through a field of 6ft stinging nettles. Within moments my surroundings seemed to burst into life – the smell of wet nettles, the chirrup of skylarks, a butterfly flitting next to my elbow. We plod on, eyes fixed on the muddy path, and find ourselves in an Iron Age cutting called Grim's Ditch – it's original purpose is unknown, but today it is home to the biggest nettles I've ever seen. Toothaches were treated with sage and nettles. Beyond, open countryside became valleys of unpruned olive groves, bushes of juniper berry and clumps of wild nettles – a favourite ingredient among Vieste's chefs, who pick them to give dishes an unusual twist. They involved nettles and an electric fence. Stinging nettles can be a pain but they are a sign of fertile soil. I'm afraid to watch on my own lest I fall off the gap in the hedge, my hiding place, onto the playing field, and I don't like the stinging nettles. The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles. Show More Sentences But from May through August, buds the size of a BB break off the polyps and rapidly grow into sea nettles that can reach the size of a dinner plate. We listened intently as our guide showed us the stinging nettles that can inflict the pain of a handful of hot coals and the sand crabs that scurry across deserted beaches. Dig or rotovate the lawn site, getting out all the weeds if possible, but particularly dandelions, docks, plantains, buttercups, nettles and couch grass. Systemic weedkillers such as Roundup, which kill the weed from the inside out, will get rid of pernicious weeds such as bindweed, nettles and ground elder. U is for Urtication, the use of stinging nettles as a stimulant. Down on the Cobby path the summer nettles swallow trolleys whole. But instead of using chemical sprays to control weeds, they decided to accommodate arable interlopers such as as fumitories, woundwort, spurges and dead nettles. Learn how a jelly can devour enough food to double its weight each day, or how sea nettles hunt by trailing their long stinging tentacles to paralyze prey upon contact. Examples from Classical Literature Your mistress, doited devil, as I maun ca her, ought to be skelpit wi nettles for this calamity. There were buttercups, avens, and white nettles in flower on December 31st. This acid is the active principle in the sting of the red ant, and also of stinging nettles. Stinging nettles abound here, of the tall sort that grow so rankly on old earth heaps and in dry ditches. In a medical point of view, urtication, or stinging with nettles, is a practice not sufficiently appreciated. Nettlerash or urticaria, an irritating eruption in the skin causing a sensation like the stinging of nettles. It is not right to live the slave of pales, or become the rhapsode of docks and nettles. The thicker the undergrowth of nettles and wild parsley, rushes and rough grasses, the more the whitethroat likes the spot. To the figure of the noble swordsman he brings a wry impishness, a stunning self-assurance that nettles his foes and magnifies their inferiority. Hast thou fed upon vinegar and nettles this morning that thy speech is so stinging? Thereupon he went straight to the second aeroplane, got the aeronaut's gun and ammunition and hid them in a clump of nettles close at hand. One of the two weeping willows stands over a long-dried pond circled by nettles, whose sting eagerly anticipates the brush of naked flesh. I should certainly have boiled over if I hadn't stayed among the nettles till I got my rage under control enough to hold my tongue. If I remember rightly, we rolled you in nettles to cure you of entomology. Common annual weeds in our gardens include chickweed, nettles, hairy bittercress, groundsel and annual meadowgrass. I meet nothing but nettles tearing my ankles and grass up to my knees. She described to me a little two-roomed wooden house, in the suburb of some very small town, hiding within the high plank-fence of a yard overgrown with nettles. The pale and blasted nettle-stems of the preceding year even now lingered nakedly in the banks, young green nettles of the present spring growing from their roots. Find more words! 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