Nettle
"Nettle" in a Sentence (16 examples)
It is better to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose.
I found a very good drug for nettle rash.
Some traditional garments in the Philippines are made of linen and cotton; others are woven with fibres from banana or pineapple leaves or from the bark of a nettle plant.
The nettle tree gives sweet micocolli.
Among field flowers the most noted are the May Lily, the Ground Ivy, the Bluebottle, Camomile and so on; and among herbs, Trefoil, Wormwood, Sorrel, the Nettle and so forth.
Among field flowers the most noted are the May Lily, the Ground Ivy, the Cornflower, Camomile and so on; and among herbs, Trefoil, Wormwood, Sorrel, the Nettle and so forth.
Nettle proliferates, it abounds in our country. The nettle soup is good. I am just eating it. Very little will satisfy you.
I like to drink nettle tea.
I'll have to grasp the nettle, then.
Burchard had every nettle rooted up for three leagues round.
The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
[…] I am whipp’d and scourged with rods, / Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear / Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
[T]his is no lavv unto the vvoof of the neat Retiarie Spider, vvhich ſeems to vveave vvithout tranſverſion, and by the union of right lines to make out a continued ſurface, vvhich is beyond the common art of Textury, and may ſtill nettle Minerva the Godeſſe of that myſtery.
His Miſtreſs: vvhoſe Miſtreſs, vvhat Miſtreſs; s'life hovv that little vvord has nettled me!
I saw Mr. Williams was a little nettled at my Impatience […]
Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]
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