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With not a sprig of holly in sight, it is the perfect anti-pantomime for the festive season.
Add a vanilla pod, a sprig of sweet cicely, lavender or elderflower cordial to rhubarb compote.
The knight wore no armor, but carried a sprig of holly in one hand, and an enormous axe in the other.
To remove a leaf from its sprig, Patten grasped it gently by the stalk and pulled it back towards the branch of the limb to prevent tree damage.
There's water, obviously, and then there's some salt, a splash of chlorine, a hint of sulphur and a sprig of magnesium.
At the shire-hall new-year celebrations, 15-year-old Ruth Hilton catches the eye of a 23-year-old sprig of the gentry.
You notice that there wasn't a sprig of parsley or even a strawberry on the plate.
Garnish with a fresh mint sprig and a straw cut short enough so that you almost bury your nose in the mint as you sip.
I started a sprig of a Confederate rose bush in Tyler that came from a plant in Georgia.
A sprig of holly is added as a symbol of everlasting life, and the burning brandy a reminder of the rebirth of the sun.
You may pick a sprig of rosemary or thyme, or a few fronds of parsley or dill, but you'll pick an armload of basil.
Cut a small cross in the top of each pie, insert a sprig of thyme and lightly brush with milk.
The two Greens Senators wore a sprig of wattle over a postcard picture of the two Australian citizens interned in Guantanamo Bay.
Little did I expect that a, slightly worse for wear, sprig of green taken from the boxes would become a priceless Christmas moment.
For the truffle sabayon, in a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the sherry vinegar, shallots, and thyme sprig.
Nibble on a sprig of parsley after eating raw onions or garlic or whenever your breath smells sour.
Put the remaining giblets into a saucepan with a thyme sprig, bay, sage, star anise, half the onion and 1 clove garlic.
A sprig each of borage and mint is optional but adds some pleasing herby, bosky overtones.
Forget the tiny sprig strategically placed on a lemon sole or the meagre pinch of mint in a pan of potatoes.
He had come in peace, he said, for he carried a sprig of holly and wore no armor.
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A sprig of rose geranium dropped in syrup while it is boiling the last time will give the jelly a delicious and unusual flavor.
Thereupon a young sprig, from the East, blustered like a Shanghai rooster, and began to sass the conductor with his chin music.
Phoebe turned away with a little toss of her head, and he turned, too, breaking a sprig of southernwood.
A sprig of southernwood in an unmarried girl's shoe would bring to her the sight of her husband-to-be before night.
Taking a sprig of jessamine and holding it to her nose, she went up to that picture.
It must have been a really amusing show that young sprig of Junkerism put up.
Poised on yonder sprig of harebell stands a little purple-winged butterfly, one of the most exquisite among our British kinds.
Here's a little mignonette I put in the bottom, so't everybody could have a sprig.
He held a sprig of laurel in his hand during the time he was confined in the pillory.
Let it cool and then pour over the fish that is to be served with a sprig of parsley.
The state emblems are a jhar or sprig of seven branches and a khanda or sword.
In sprig H the underwork consists of stitching in soft cotton, over which thick silk is embroidered in bullion-stitch.
There the air was fragrant with the scent of a sprig of honeysuckle that lay yet unwithered in the window.
Crest, in a mural coronet argent, a pheon sable, with a sprig of laurel issuing therefrom proper.
From the sprig of broom that his father, Geoffrey of Anjou, is said to have worn as a badge.
She had placed a sprig of holly at each plate, and a vase of poinsettia blossoms graced the centre of the table.
His coat collar was pulled up to his eyes, and a fur cap, with a sprig of bog myrtle in it, was drawn well down upon his brows.
He opened it eagerly, and a sprig of forget-me-not fell into his hand.
The blouse was white, with a little sprig of heliotrope and black.
To make the cool cocktail take 75ml Snow Leopard Vodka, 5ml dry vermouth and a sprig of rosemary.
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