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1. of nettle, as erect and hostilely on guard as the brambles were chaotic and malevolent
2. The place is a mess, covered in abandoned building material and rapidly shooting clumps of dock and nettle, which are spreading across the broken and barren ground
3. High doses of nettle may be irritating to the kidneys after awhile, particularly in cases of pre-existing kidney disease
4. Animals that have plant allergies may be sensitive to nettle, which may cause allergic dermatitis (aside from the irritant reaction which the fresh herb causes when touched)
5. Aunt Martha and I had sold our own houses so that we could buy back Nettle Farm
6. The newspaper was spread across my favourite chair and as I moved it I spotted Nettle Farm’s telephone number on one of the bigger adverts
7. I could see that Grunt was not in the best of moods and knew from bitter experience that the local constabulary tended to be a touch vindictive when they were upset by the residents of Nettle Farm
8. And Stinging Nettle, grows on its banks
9. Nestles near the nettle nymphs, and below
10. It prickles against his skin like a field nettle before settling against his palm
11. on a stinging nettle
12. Some herbal teas have a diuretic effect, for example dandelion and stinging nettle
13. Take a handful of Nettle and cover with fresh water for at least 2 to 3 weeks
14. I knotted my tongue into a ball, and wound a nettle stem through Arin’s collar, and all at once Floy stopped her mincing detail
15. In truth it is a difficult nettle to grasp but it is one that, if grasped can actually be quite empowering
16. Emotions when experienced in excess is reflected in the skin as pruritus (itching), urticaria (nettle rash) and rosacea (chronic congestion of the blood capillaries leading to a lumpy red appearance of the face)
17. The historic practice of applying nettle topically (with the intent of causing stings to relieve arthritis) has been assessed by a questionnaire study
18. The nettle stings were
19. Every few minutes she stopped and picked a particularly beautiful wild flower or pinched off a nice sized nettle and chewed it eagerly, but with learned caution
20. hedgehog she had squandered and mixed it with the nettle, their sharp flavors taking her mind off the distance she still had to cover this afternoon
21. You seized the nettle
22. “Tarragon,” said the old man weakly, “in the garden, and nettle,
23. It is said that stinging nettle not only helps to increase the production of red blood cells by stimulating the function of bone marrow, but it also enhances
24. Study shows that stinging nettle also helps to smoothen the urination in men
25. * Nettle mature seed ? is anti-inflammatory for the skin, neutralizes acid waste with its high mineral content
26. Dong Quai combined with nettle root is supposed to be a very powerful hair loss treatment that is available today
27. • Nettle Root: the application of nettle root to the scalp is believed to stimulate hair growth
28. Nettle root or the common stinging nettle has been around for a very long time and is used in numerous treatments for a wide variety of ailments
29. It is a very strong DHT blocker, but any one on prescription medication needs to check with a doctor before starting nettle root treatments
30. The Chinese have been aware of the power of Saw Palmetto, Nettle Root and other herbs in helping to maintain healthy luxuriant hair growth
31. There was old Jevons with one eye gone, and his clothes the colour of mud, his bag over his back, and his brains laid feet down in earth among the violet roots and the nettle roots; Mary Sanders with her box of wood; and Tom sent for beer, the half-witted son of the sexton-- all this within thirty miles of London
32. Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their crowns
33. You can see where the old house stood near the village church; they call the field "Castle Hill", Horlick's field where the ground's uneven and half of it is waste, nettle, and brier in hollows too deep for ploughing
34. Those were our roots in the waste hollows of Castle Hill, in the brier and nettle; among the tombs in the old church and the chantry where no clerk sings
35. Before the soup is served, it is flavored with a little oil from the nettle of the spring and with dried lavender
36. " 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
37. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax
38. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth
39. The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter
40. And what is required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture
41. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful
42. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such
43. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the
44. An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier
45. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that lily
46. Rubbing with dock leaves will soothe nettle stings
47. But though Stepan Arkadyevitch was accustomed to very different dinners, he thought everything excellent: the herb brandy, and the bread, and the butter, and above all the salt goose and the mushrooms, and the nettle soup, and the chicken in white sauce, and the white Crimean wine— everything was superb and delicious
48. At one’s feet springs the dark-green nettle, with its slender crown of flowers, while the broad-leaved burdock, with its bright-pink, prickly blossoms, overtops the raspberries (and even one’s head) with its luxuriant masses, until, with the nettle, it almost meets the pendent, pale-green branches of the old apple-trees where apples, round and lustrous as bone, but as yet unripe, are mellowing in the heat of the sun
1. As the interview progressed, the host nettled the older man and succeeded in painting him as angry and intolerant
2. Nettled, she asked, "Why are you acting this way?"
3. His subjects nettled by the open pores of the pasty smelly mud that opened to let out the reprobates
4. Even a lamb might conceivably feel nettled by persistent pity when it knows it has everything in the world it wants
5. A nettled silence fell upon me, and while I was arranging how best to convince him of their substance he was shaking his head and saying that it was strange how the most intelligent women are unable really to think
6. There was nothing for it but to hurry down after him and seek out the authorities and set them in pursuit; and so we hurried as much as can be hurried over such a road, tired, silent, and hungry, and both secretly nettled to the point of madness at having been so easily circumvented by one small boy
7. The Bishop was nettled
8. Ingram was nettled by Ingeborg's apparent inability to develop
9. "What cabbage?" he asked shortly, for it nettled him to be interrupted when he was spinning images, and it more than nettled him to be interrupted in the middle of an emotion
10. What was there to be amused at when you were a leader maintaining order and the survival of your clan? He watched Denver chuckle more and felt nettled by it
11. This nettled her
12. "My pursuits are peaceful, and my temper, I humbly trust, is greatly given to mercy and love," returned David, a little nettled at so direct an attack on his manhood; "but there are none who can say that I have ever forgotten my faith in the Lord, even in the greatest straits
13. "Did I ever hear him!" said the invalid, nettled
14. Nettled not a little by L
15. " In conclusion, the inspector offered his resignation to the Board, being much nettled by an accusation of incompetence in the London papers
16. ' And my mind went back ten years to the evening at Brideshead, when that lovely, spidery child of nineteen, as though brought in for an hour from the nursery and nettled by lack of attention from the grown-ups, had said: 'I'm causing anxiety, too, you know,' and I had thought at the time, though scarcely, it now seemed to me, in long trousers myself, 'How important these girls make themselves with their love affairs
17. And Uncle Peter produced a great- Even before Scarlett was able to be about again, she noticed Rhett’s pre-occupation with the baby and was somewhat nettled and embarrassed at his pride in her in front of unmanly in the display of such love
18. His ardour was nettled at the sight, for the act on her part had been unconsciously done
19. "I didn't want to take a liberty with Brooke," said Sir James; "I see he is nettled
20. "Do you mean that I cry up Brooke on any personal ground?" said Will Ladislaw, nettled, and turning sharp round
21. "Then, why don't you extend your liberality to others?" said Will, still nettled
22. Five hundred miles in four days nettled him far more than the piousness of the driver
23. Fairfax!” exclaimed I, nettled; “he is nothing like my father! No one, who saw us together, would suppose it for an instant
1. He bends to pick up a long stick and starts beating idly at the nettles standing harmlessly along the fence line
2. Beyond the hedge and the ubiquitous, unforgiving, waist-high nettles, chunks of ballast gravel, sharp and stained, emited a slight haze of heat, baking the old timber sleepers laid a hundred years ago, counting off the miles between Blue Anchor and Watchett
3. A stick whacked at a clump of waist high nettles, sending fragments of the sting-laden leaves scattering across the rough grassland at the edge of the meadow
4. ’ He said, bending to pick up a stick and bashing absently at a shock of nettles growing beside the stone
5. where docks and nettles colonise infill
6. I don't think they saw her fling down the shovel into the gravel or understood the curses she invoked, but certainly they felt the sting of the grit that flew from her hands and showered them like nettles
7. The nettles are also making the most of the benefits as are the brambles which are sending out long, hungry runners in all directions
8. Harry finished watering the nettles behind the bus shelter and
9. Tom was attacking a dense patch of stinging nettles with a sickle,
10. Rosecare gently touched his shoulder and pointed to a pool in shadow under a cluster of nettles
11. The bank was covered with large clumps of nettles and they would have missed the tunnel completely if Darkburst had not disturbed a field mouse which had then darted into the darkness for safety
12. 7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together
13. man void of understanding, and note, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the surface of it, and the stone wall
14. thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses of it, and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for
15. places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles
16. Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of
17. The young tops of nettles in early spring are delicious
18. During summer it was overrun with nettles and bracken, but now, at the end of autumn, the packed mud along the length of it was just visible
19. Once, the boy disturbs a nest of small lizards and they scurry away into ferns and nettles, the white markings on their backs pulsating in fear
20. That prettiness hid unpleasant, needle-like nettles that grew along the lower parts of its stems and stung when touched
21. Every sprig of nettles grew in sets of three, every set bent like knuckled claws
22. Within minutes the landscape looked like flowering hillsides in full bloom, not the ruinous cemetery of a far-reaching empire of bracken and nettles
23. • a bit of thistle and nettles
24. Nettles and spiny bushes blanketed most of the surrounding areas
25. This provided nettles for the butterflies, space for his compost heap, and a small area for burning his garden waste
26. “Yes it will believe it or not there is a tarmac road just past them stinging nettles
27. ” says Suzy as she points at the stinging nettles which bar their way
28. Stepping outside she walks towards the stinging nettles as Sharon comes up behind her
29. Suzy stands on some of the stinging nettles and makes a little path through them
30. Two metres further on and past the stinging nettles she turns around in triumph; “Told you, come and look
31. Sharon follows Suzy's path through the nettles and is amazed to see Suzy standing on an old tarmac road
32. The stinging nettles flatten before them offering no resistance and Sharon finds herself driving along a smooth road
33. Úrsula found him there one afternoon when she was going about sprinkling the house with distilled water and a bunch of nettles, and in spite of the fact that she had been with him many times she asked him who he was
34. You’d get ridden around all day, never allowed to rest, fed on grass and nettles, and have a bridle and bit in your mouth
35. In a patch of nettles was the wreckage of an old car
36. All but the oldest children were in bed while the adults listened quietly, chewing on roasted nettles and savory air-dried hedgehog meat
37. hedgerow, moving slowly, easing the branches aside, ignoring the sudden sting of nettles on his hand, the scratch of bramble thorns snagging his camo jacket
38. shouldn’t be a field of nettles
39. It is said that stinging nettles also helps to balance the yin and yang in the
40. nettles and ground elder
41. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, and nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof
42. Others, astride the wall, swung their legs, kicking with their clogs the large nettles growing between the little enclosure and the newest graves
43. There once more, through the panels opening into these Caribbean waters ten meters below the surface of the waves, I found so many fascinating exhibits to describe in my daily notes! Among other zoophytes there were Portuguese men–of–war known by the name Physalia pelagica, like big, oblong bladders with a pearly sheen, spreading their membranes to the wind, letting their blue tentacles drift like silken threads; to the eye delightful jellyfish, to the touch actual nettles that ooze a corrosive liquid
44. Those homely recipes are often the best: strawberries for the teeth: nettles and rainwater: oatmeal they say steeped in buttermilk
45. of the path it trampled through the nettles and ferns
46. "I reckon 'e's in them nettles
47. He was alone and afraid, yet The mist swirled round Fiver as he crept through thistles and nettles
48. Blackberry led the way to the trampled patch of nettles and Fiver sat still among them, sniffing and looking about him in the silence
49. They returned under the arch and as Silver came out of the bushes to meet them, they could hear the other rabbits stirring uneasily among the nettles
50. "Kehaar," said Bigwig, as they waited for Thethuthinnang to struggle up to them through a half-flattened clump of nettles, "will you go and see whether you can spot the Efrafans? They can't be far away
