sloes

• The Well is lucky enough to have land and orchards to grow some of its own food, as well as looking to local suppliers and also nature - making elderberries, sloes, blackberries and rosehips into jam, syrup and liqueurs. —  Diocese of Oxford
• The boughs yield a miserable sustenance, berries and stony sloes, and plants torn up by the root feed me. —  The Aeneid of Virgil
• She had eyes like sloes, and teeth like pearls that gleamed when she smiled, and by constant trying to keep herself from smiling at things, she had worn two lines up and down between her eyebrows. —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
• Her sudden enquiry wafted "Cobbler" Horn back into the past; and there rose before him the vision of a bonny little nut-brown damsel of five summers, with eyes like sloes, and a mass of dusky hair. —  The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
• A proper fellow of his inches now, with yellow hair Nay," said Ambrose, "I mind that his hair was black, and his eyes as black as sloes--or as thine own, Master Jester The jester tumbled over into a more extraordinary attitude than before, while Stephen said John was wont to twit us with being akin to Gipsy Hal I mean a man sad and grave as the monks of Beaulieu," said the jester He!" —  The Armourer's Prentices

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