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Sentences starting with plants

Plants of each month got up from botanical calendars. [6]

Sentences ending with plants

And I suppose we put on the sackcloth and ashes, when the striped bug came at four o'clock A.M., and we watched the tender leaves, and watered night and morning the feeble plants. [4]
So that many of the lower animals are, in this respect, analogous with plants. [1]
On each side of the court was a shady, covered colonnade of wood, and in the midst a tank with ornamental plants. [10]
These elements are not constituents of healthy plants. [3]
All these so-called laws apply equally to man and the lower animals; and most of them even to plants. [1]
Farther on it flowed through a channel choked with all kinds of plants. [10]
The noted mineral-waters containing iron, sulphur, carbonic acid, supply nutritious or stimulating materials to the body as much as phosphate of lime and ammoniacal compounds do to the cereal plants. [3]
It was noticed by the friends of nature that when the peculiar coal-tar colors were discovered, the same faded, aesthetic, and sometimes sickly colors began to appear in the ornamental flower-beds and masses of foliage plants. [4]
He is describing an excursion to Alcala de la Guadayra: "Nothing can be more charming than the windings of the little river among banks hanging with gardens and orchards of all kinds of delicate southern fruits, and tufted with flowers and aromatic plants. [4]

Sentences containing plants two or more times

Speaking of those yellow squash-bugs, I think I disheartened them by covering the plants so deep with soot and wood-ashes that they could not find them; and I am in doubt if I shall ever see the plants again. [4]

More example sentences with the word plants in them

Through the open windows I looked upon a lawn, green with close-shaven turf, set with ancient trees, and variegated with parterres of summer plants in bloom. [4]
There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. [6]
But I think we would make more money if we sold the plants now. [4]
There's plenty of water and sand, and palmetto roots and palmetto trees, and swamps, and a perfectly wonderful vegetation of vines and plants and flowers. [4]
I have given various experiments and other evidence proving that this is the case, in my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
It is no valid objection to this conclusion that animals suddenly supplied with an excess of food, or when grown very fat; and that most plants on sudden removal from very poor to very rich soil, are rendered more or less sterile. [1]
We are going too see the others monuments such that the public pawnbroker's office, the plants garden's, the money office's, the library. [5]
The gardener comes to talk about seeds: he uncovers the straw-berries and the grape-vines, salts the asparagus-bed, and plants the peas. [4]
The plants are tied up in the gardens, the fountains are covered over, and the inhabitants go about in furs and the heaviest winter clothing long before we should think of doing so at home. [4]
See remarks to this effect in 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
The soft light, the warmth, the exotic odour of the plants, the well-dressed people who trod softly the strip of carpet set on the marble with the air of being at home--all contributed to an excitement, intense yet benumbing. [9]
From one of the walls a fountain plashed into a large shell garlanded with green aquatic plants and tenanted by several goldfish and frogs. [10]
Then we reach the plains, where it is true many kinds of plants grow. [10]
See also on the general subject 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
Every ramble through the forest enriched our knowledge of plants and animals, and I soon knew the different varieties of stones also; yet we did not suspect that this knowledge was imparted according to a certain system. [10]
I have given the evidence on this head in my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
The space between the columns and the walls was filled with choice plants, palms, oleanders, pomegranates, oranges and roses, behind which an invisible band of harp and flute-players was stationed, who received the guests with strains of monotonous, solemn music. [10]
The trouble is, that you are not thinking about anything, but are really vegetating like the plants around you. [4]
The Scotch say, that no man ought to thin out his own turnips, because he will not sacrifice enough to leave room for the remainder to grow: he should get his neighbor, who does not care for the plants, to do it. [4]
But the plants that come up every year in the same place, like the Star-of-Bethlehems, of all the lesser objects, give me the liveliest home-feeling. [6]
It does not take a great man to soon discover that, in raising anything, the greater part of the plants goes into stalk and leaf, and the fruit is a most inconsiderable portion. [4]
The hour between sunrise and mass was devoted to this work, in which Eva was to help her, and it would afford her much information; for her aunt raised many plants which possessed healing power. [10]
On this whole subject see 'The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' 1868, vol. [1]
He lays much stress, in the case of plants, on the nature of the soil. [1]
The morning sun stared in, some snowbirds twittered on the window-sill, and inside, a canary, in an alcove hung with plants and flowers, sang as if it were the heart of summer. [11]
Or we might, so it would seem, have had rooms by the winter garden, where tropical plants rejoice in perennial summer, and blossom and bear fruit, while a northern winter rages without. [4]
The garden, I see, is filled with thrifty plants, which will make it always summer there. [4]
On these points see also 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
During the hard season, of course,--for in the heats of summer the tenderest hot-house plants are not afraid of the open air. [6]
Beyond the billiard room, in the little entry filled with potted plants, she came face to face with that lady, who was inciting a footman to further efforts in his attempt to close a recalcitrant skylight. [9]
What gave the room, however, a cheerful aspect were some pots of plants on the window-ledges, and half a dozen canary-bird cages hung wherever there was room for them. [4]
Meanwhile the sick princess had been carried home, had had her oppressive ornaments taken off, and her couch carried on to one of the palace-balconies where she liked best to pass the hot summer days, sheltered by broad-leaved plants, and a kind of awning. [10]
There is a presumption against putting lead or arsenic into the human body, as against putting them into plants, because they do not belong there, any more than pounded glass, which, it is said, used to be given as a poison. [3]
An old physician presided over the whole, and had shown Nefert the first day the particular plants which he needed. [10]
There it is pleasant enough, for a spring bedews the stony soil and there, as wherever any moisture touches the desert, aromatic plants thrive, and umbrageous bushes grow. [10]
Our thoughts are plants that never flourish in inhospitable soils or chilling atmospheres. [6]
I brought the plants down from my own hothouse in Leith. [9]
The variety of plants assembled there is very large, and there are many, we were told, never or rarely found elsewhere in the United States. [4]
Neither persons nor plants are ever fully themselves until they are cultivated to their highest. [4]
To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan. [4]
The lawn is planted in exquisite taste, and the gardener has set in the open spaces of green the most ingenious devices of flowers and foliage plants, and nothing could be more enchanting than the view from the wide veranda on the sea side. [4]
During this interval Ormusd created the sky, the waters, the earth, all useful plants, trees and herbs, the ox and the first pair of human beings in one year. [10]
See my work on 'The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
Helm's admirable work on "Cultivated Plants and Domestic Animals" had taught me to notice such things. [10]
Now a troop of servants brought pots and tubs of blooming plants and formed them into a beautiful jungle about the door and the base of the staircase. [5]
The whole art of cultivation consists in learning the proper food and conditions of plants, and supplying them. [3]
On the transmission of colour by the horse, see 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
See my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
If you do not, you must build a tight fence round the plants, which the toad cannot jump over. [4]
As I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden,--name things as I find them. [4]
Now she was no more, and the culture of plants had lost half its charm since her eyes could no longer watch their thriving. [10]
Another, observing the migration of plants, notices that the bee helps in this work, and may say that in this lies the purpose of the bee. [2]
In Texas she lays out a farm twelve feet square, plants it, weeds it, cultivates it, gathers the crop and stores it away. [5]
Pretty straw mats lay on the floor, and pots of plants, filling the little room with fragrance, stood on the window-sill and in a corner of the room where a clay statuette of the Good Shepherd looked down on a praying-desk. [10]
And, if life-matter is essentially the same in all forms of life, I purpose to begin early, and ascertain the nature of the plants for which I am responsible. [4]
If its action is diminished to a certain degree, faintness is the immediate consequence; if it is arrested, loss of consciousness; if its action is not soon restored, death, of which fainting plants the white flag, remains in possession of the system. [6]
The large-leaved plants in the middle of the quadrangle threw strange, ghostly shadows on the dewy grass-plot; the water in the fountain splashed more loudly than by day, but with a soothing, monotonous gurgle, broken now and then by a sudden short pause. [10]
References are given in my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
Her helpers sat in little circles on the ground; in the midst of each lay a great heap of fresh and dry plants, and in front of each work-woman a number of parcels of the selected roots, leaves, and flowers. [10]
The tomatoes which I left slender plants, eaten of bugs and debating whether they would go backward or forward, had become stout and lusty, with thick stems and dark leaves, and some of them had blossomed. [4]
I, page 7, I allow mimosas to grow among other plants in Rhodopis' garden. [10]
Like the Columbus, however, who plants his flag upon the cliffs of a new land, and then, leaving his vast prize unharvested, retreats upon the sea by which he came, so Ian suddenly realized that here was no abiding-place for his love. [11]
The dwarf shrugged his shoulders, and slunk behind a clump of ornamental plants, and a few minutes later Paaker stood in the presence of Katuti, who greeted him, with quiet dignity and self-possession. [10]
Well, then, come here," said she, and went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. [2]
The ladies staying here were probably all accomplished botanists, and the writer is indebted to one of them for a list of plants found on Roan, among which is an interesting weed, catalogued as Humana, perplexia negligens. [4]
She thrusts up her plants with a vigor and freedom that I admire; and the more worthless the plant, the more rapid and splendid its growth. [4]
Every kindergarten should have a small garden, to afford an opportunity to watch the development of the plants, though only one at a time--for instance, the bean. [10]
Of course, they had to be thinned out; that is, pretty much all pulled up; and it took me a long time; for it takes a conscientious man some time to decide which are the best and healthiest plants to spare. [4]
I had a glimpse of a garden in the rear,--flowers and plants, and a balcony up which I suppose Romeo climbed to hold that immortal love-prattle with the lovesick Juliet. [4]
They had beautiful flower-gardens annexed to the houses, wherein were grown also rare and medicinal herbs; it was a wonder to see how many strange herbs, plants, and fruits were daily brought from the Indies, America and the Canaries. [4]
All living things, even the plants in the garden, have a right to happiness, and only develop fully in freedom, and under loving care; and yet one half of mankind robs the other half of this right. [10]
And, if you do not set out plants or sow seeds early, you fret continually; knowing that your vegetables will be late, and that, while Jones has early peas, you will be watching your slow-forming pods. [4]
I have fully discussed these laws in my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
But her chief delight was in finely-grown plants, of which rare and magnificent specimens, artistically arranged on stands, stood in the corners of many of the rooms. [10]
All those long corridors above and below enclosed in glass are to protect the hothouse plants of New York and Boston, who call it a Winter Resort, and I guess there's considerable winter in it. [4]
We got large, cool, well-lighted rooms on a second floor, overlooking a bloomy display of flowers and flowering shrubscalia and annunciation lilies, lantanas, heliotrope, jasmine, roses, pinks, double geraniums, oleanders, pomegranates, blue morning-glories of a great size, and many plants that were unknown to me. [5]
I could not but admire the persistence of these zealous plants, which seemed determined to propagate themselves both by seeds and roots, and make sure of immortality in some way. [4]
These sentimental plants breathe something of the longing of the maiden who sits in the Sunday evenings of summer on the lonesome front doorstone, singing the hymns of the saints, and perennial as the myrtle that grows thereby. [4]
I desire to be surrounded only by healthy, vigorous plants and trees, which require constant cutting-in and management. [4]
I have given authorities for these several statements in my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
At last, however, as the strains of "Loch Lomond" ceased, a lady appeared on the balcony of a drawing-room, and, leaning over a little forest of flowers and plants, threw a half-crown to the sorry street-musician. [11]
But, after all, as life is constituted, I think more of Polly's honest and anxious care of her plants than of the most finished gardening in the world. [4]
Even iodine, which, as it is found in certain plants, seems less remote from the animal tissues, gives unequivocal proofs from time to time that it is hostile to some portions of the glandular system. [3]
Beautiful works of art, manuscripts and books such as were only preserved here, old and splendid plants from every zone, vessels and woven stuffs that had been the delight of connoisseurs--all perished in heaps. [10]
You cannot have arctic and tropical plants growing together in it, except by the forcing system, which is a mighty narrow piece of business. [6]
He studied plants, animals, minerals; and while his young heart vainly longed for love, he would have gladly displayed affection himself, if his timidity would have permitted him to do so. [10]
The 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
The 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' 1868, vol. [1]
The schoolmaster swept and smoothed the ground before the door, trimmed the long grass, trained the ivy and creeping plants which hung their drooping heads in melancholy neglect; and gave to the outer walls a cheery air of home. [12]
For full particulars and references on all these points respecting the several breeds of the Fowl, see 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. [1]
It peddles rheumatism, and plants consumption. [4]
I, p. 64, among other Egyptian plants, were first introduced into the Nile valley from India by the Arabs. [10]
A draught of air rushed through this hall, and in stormy weather switched the water all over the floor, now robbed of its mosaics, and covered, wherever the foot could tread, with a thin, dark green, damp and slippery coating of mossy plants and slime. [10]
It opened into a pretty little garden, with a few plants and trees. [11]
It was not a favorable time for me to explain the difference between puttering hoeing, and the broad, free sweep of the instrument, which kills the weeds, spares the plants, and loosens the soil without leaving it in holes and hills. [4]

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