sorrel

• A good black was obtained by boiling woollen cloth with a quantity of the leaves of the common field-sorrel, then boiling again with logwood and copperas In the South there were scores of flowers and leaves that could be used for dyes. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• A sliced onion, or a few blades of chives boiled with the sorrel is a welcome flavor occasionally, also the stock may be half meat stock and half cream or milk SORREL AND SPINACH SOUP To one quart of sorrel add a handful of spinach and a few lettuce leaves. —  Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs
• They have to get their living; and some, like the dodder, prefer to get it at the expense of another; and others resort to all kinds of plans to keep themselves and their kinds alive The acid of the pretty wood-sorrel is a poison, so nothing will eat it; and the buttercups growing in meadows are untouched by cattle, because of the poison in their leaves and stems I might tell you of many other plants that live in safety because they are defended by poison, or thorns, or prickles, or some peculiar shape. —  Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.
• "The sun was just setting; away down in yonder field the sorrel was as fire in its rays; a catbird was reciting a merry pastoral in the thicket beyond; two goats stood high on a bank, like satyrs guarding the place. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
• Under these very hazel boughs only yesterday, i.e. in May, looking for cuckoo-sorrel, as the wood-sorrel is called, there rolled down a brown last year's nut from among the moss of the bank. —  Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

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