stone-crop

When Lucien came back to the road with a great bunch of the yellow stone-crop which grows everywhere upon the stony soil of the vineyards, he came out upon a traveler dressed in black from head to foot.

Eve and David 2007

If he rose and continued his walk, she sat down obligingly at the window and looked at the angle of the wall where the pale flowers hung, where the Venus-hair grew from the crevices with the bindweed and the sedum, — a white or yellow stone-crop very abundant in the vineyards of Saumur and at

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

When Lucien came back to the road with a great bunch of the yellow stone-crop which grows everywhere upon the stony soil of the vineyards, he came out upon a traveler dressed in black from head to foot.

Eve and David 2007

Doctors have found that the expulsive vomiting provoked by doses of the _Sedum acre_ (Betony stone-crop), will serve in diphtheria to remove such false membrane clinging in patches to the throat and tonsils, [277] as threatens suffocation: and after this release afforded by copious vomiting, the diphtheritic foci are prevented from forming again.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The grass and crags are dotted with azure and purple flowers, and cushions of pink and white stone-crop abound.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

Even though it has been wholly neglected -- though its walls be in ruins, covered with stone-crop and wall-flower, and its area produce but the rankest weeds -- there are still the remains of the aged fruit trees -- the venerable pears, the delicate little apples, and the luscious black cherries.

The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 Various

I think I recollect long ago, to have seen the maid-servants of a house in Berkshire place an herb, I think a kind of stone-crop, behind the door, calling it Midsummer men, that was to chain the favoured youth as he entered.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

For a last moment, on the rose-red stone-crop of Ganilly, day remembered noon.

DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920

One perfect little building stands not far from Seale on the road to Puttenham, bowered in vines and quaintly chimneyed, with white-curtained windows opening on a low wall and stone-crop and high box borders, and, when I saw it in July, bunches of pink and white mallows glowing under an old oak door.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Tufts of wild parsley and columbine filled the cracks between the flagged footways, and the well in the middle of the courtyard was given up to ferns and matted stone-crop.

The Gadfly 1912