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    hawthorn


    1. The hawthorn is now in full leaf and showing signs of blossoming fairly soon, there are bluebells here and there and speedwell twining round the purple-leaved bugle which is heavy with buds


    2. with their scattering of holly and hawthorn, and the single trees that


    3. trimming the branches of a hawthorn bush, trying to wrestle it back


    4. foundations, rough grasses were now growing, and Hawthorn and


    5. The car lurches and stalls as Billy's foot slips off the clutch, its bonnet buried in a thickly matted wall of hawthorn and beech


    6. Also, Hawthorn leaves instead of bread


    7. We moved from farm country to the woods at the base of the Swan Mountains in Montana, living on acres of dense pine and fir forest laced with snowberry and wild spirea, black hawthorn, birch, and aspen


    8. I looked at my watch and saw that it had just gone 7:20hrs then a loud sound came to our ears from far away and the ground beneath us trembled as though in an earthquake this was a mine at Hawthorn Ridge that had been detonated


    9. The Hawthorn is one of the oldest traditional medicines used for animals


    10. Hawthorn is generally considered to be a very safe herb for animals, however, should be avoided in cases where conventional cardiac drug treatment is in place as it may enhance the effects of these drugs and increase their effects

    11. Out beyond the hawthorn stand, across Low Meadow


    12. As the triumphant bird made off through a flock of grazing sheep, it left behind two pairs of weakly waving legs stuck high in the prickly embrace of a hawthorn hedge


    13. The day was fine, and all around him was the yellow hawthorn flowering that consumed the railway edges and paths


    14. And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green,


    15. And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,


    16. It was hawthorn wood topped by a silver wolf’s head


    17. Anyway, the coyote said you could find him sleeping under the hawthorn next to the pasture


    18. The stream that runs past the Well emerges from the trees here and meanders its way through the soft green grass and hawthorn bushes


    19. The flowers from the hawthorn and the apple blossom trees, sent their own sweet aroma into the air


    20. did I see above the hawthorn tree

    21. Several birds, quails he believed, suddenly flew out of a patch of hawthorn bushes in the gardens and startled him as they broke the peaceful and serene atmosphere of the scene


    22. It was a patchwork of thousands of small fields enclosed by almost impenetrable hedges, consisting of dense thickets of hawthorn and brambles, up to five metres in height, with a drainage ditch on either side


    23. Plants like roses, holly and hawthorn have spiny leaves and thorny stems are great deterrents because they can produce punctures and tear at the skin


    24. Hawthorn leaf and flower extracts have been reported to have a mild blood pressure-lowering effect in people with early stage congestive heart failure


    25. Hawthorn berries: Packed with nutrients specially vitC and B


    26. Was that truly due to the fact that you had pricked your finger upon a thorn of hawthorn that was wet with the blood of Christ?”


    27. Fairy Tree: A Hawthorn tree where the fairies live and where healing qualities for illness and ailments to be


    28. A good screen may be provided by way of Hawthorn plants, however there are a good many other plants you may also consider


    29. There were few buildings then, north of the Oxford-road, and forest-trees flourished, and wild flowers grew, and the hawthorn blossomed, in the now vanished fields


    30. The frail waves of sound broke among the stiff gorse and the hawthorn twigs as the church clock divided time into quarters

    31. A fresh breeze was blowing; the rye and colza were sprouting, little dewdrops trembled at the roadsides and on the hawthorn hedges


    32. They found at the top of the hill a hidden wild field, two sides of which were backed by the wood, the other sides by high loose hedges of hawthorn and elder bushes


    33. Bloom's boys run amid the bystanders with branches of hawthorn and wrenbushes


    34. when somebody dies belonged to them and wouldnt eat any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be petted so I thought I stood out enough for one time and let him he does it all wrong too thinking only of his own pleasure his tongue is too flat or I dont know what he forgets that wethen I dont Ill make him do it again if he doesnt mind himself and lock him down to sleep in the coalcellar with the blackbeetles I wonder was it her Josie off her head with my castoffs hes such a born liar too no hed never have the courage with a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her Denis as she calls him that forlornlooking spectacle you couldnt call him a husband yes its some little bitch hes got in with even when I was with him with Milly at the College races that Hornblower with the childs bonnet on the top of his nob let us into by the back way he was throwing his sheeps eyes at those two doing skirt duty up and down I tried to wink at him first no use of course and thats the way his money goes this is the fruits of Mr Paddy Dignam yes they were all in great style at the grand funeral in the paper Boylan brought in if they saw a real officers funeral thatd be something reversed arms muffled drums the poor horse walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan that drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the mens W C drunk in some place or other and Martin Cunningham and the two Dedaluses and Fanny MCoys husband white head of cabbage skinny thing with a turn in her eye trying to sing my songs shed want to be born all over again and her old green dress with the lowneck as she cant attract them any other way like dabbling on a rainy day I see it all now plainly and they call that friendship killing and then burying one another and they all with their wives and families at home more especially Jack Power keeping that barmaid he does of course his wife is always sick or going to be sick or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though hes getting a bit grey over the ears theyre a nice lot all of them well theyre not going to get my husband again into their clutches if I can help it making fun of him then behind his back I know well when he goes on with his idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and family goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all the same Im sorry in a way for him what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting Bill Bailey wont you please come home her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men wasnt he yes he was at the Glencree dinner and Ben Dollard base barreltone the night he borrowed the swallowtail to sing out of in Holles street squeezed and squashed into them and grinning all over his big Dolly face like a wellwhipped childs botty didnt he look a balmy ballocks sure enough that must have been a spectacle on the stage imagine paying 5/- in the preserved seats for that to see him trotting off in his trowlers and Simon Dedalus too he was always turning up half screwed singing the second verse first the old love is the new was one of his so sweetly sang the maiden on the hawthorn bough he was always on for flirtyfying too when I sang Maritana with him at Freddy Mayers private opera he had a delicious glorious voice Phoebe dearest goodbye sweetheart sweetheart he always sang it not like Bartell Darcy sweet tart goodbye of course he had the gift of the voice so there was no art in it all over you like a warm showerbath O Maritana wildwood flower we sang splendidly though it was a bit


    35. They all turned to see Nathan Reeve, standing beside a hawthorn tree as bent and twisted as he was


    36. There was a smell of straw and dust and hawthorn


    37. The Mark were filing up now and he watched as they went past, each darkening the entrance for a moment before hopping out under the hawthorn


    38. where the pylon stood, "are you both sure you understand what we're going to "Now," said Hazel, as they came out from the belt of hawthorn and dogwood do?"


    39. Out of the corners of his eyes he thought he saw an old woman, wrinkled as a dried fig, naked as a thistle-seed, floating among the branches of a hawthorn tree, a cedar stake driven into her breast


    40. Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations

    41. A crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep


    42. One afternoon,—it was on one of those early days in April, already warm and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,—Marius said to Cosette:—"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden in the Rue Plumet


    43. If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an evergreen to rustle, and the stripped hawthorn and hazel bushes were as still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path


    44. And by now they had even stopped saying to one another, "Look! there's a kingfisher," or "I say, bluebells!" or "What was that lovely smell?" or "Just listen to that thrush!" They walked on in silence drinking it all in, passing through patches of warm sunlight into cool, green thickets and out again into wide mossy glades where tall elms raised the leafy roof far overhead, and then into dense masses of flowering currant and among hawthorn bushes where the sweet smell was almost overpowering


    45. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn brake our tiring-house; and we will do it in action, as we will do it before the Duke


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    Synonyms for "hawthorn"

    haw hawthorn

    "hawthorn" definitions

    a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus