wood-sorrel

Hereupon I grew so happy at being on dry land again, and come to look for Lorna, with pretty trees around me, that what did I do but fall asleep with the holly-stick in front of me, and my best coat sunk in a bed of moss, with water and wood-sorrel.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Here were banks of earth and thicket, shadowy dells where the primrose grew, and the cuckoo-pint, and wood-sorrel, and perhaps in summer the glowworm breathed her mossy gleam under the blackberries.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

The floor was made of soft low grass, mixed with moss and primroses; and in a niche of shelter moved the delicate wood-sorrel.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The plains were ornamented by the flowers of a pink wood-sorrel, wild peas, oenotheræ, and geraniums; and the birds began to lay their eggs.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The plains were ornamented by the flowers of a pink wood-sorrel, wild peas, oenotheræ, and geraniums; and the birds began to lay their eggs.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Dorothy's recollection sounds initially like that of a natural historian: The hawthorns are black and green, the birches here and there greenish but there is yet more of purple to be seen on the twigs ... a few primroses by the roadside, wood-sorrel flower, the anemone, scentless violets, strawberries, and that starry yellow flower which Mrs.C. calls pile wort.

The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature 2001

Though you may be choke-full of science, not one in twenty of you knows where to find the wood-sorrel, or bee-orchis, which grow in the next wood, or on the down three miles off, or what the bog-bean and wood-sage are good for.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

White star-flowers and purple hepaticas nodded on their slender stems, while the crimson and white wood-sorrel fairly ran wild, creeping in and out through bush and brier, like a host of fairies in striped petticoats.

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

For variety sometimes in place of wine, you may use grapes stamped and strained, wood-sorrel, juyce of lemons, or juyce of oranges.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Take a good fleshy capon, take the flesh from the bones, or chop it in pieces very small, and not wash it; then put them in a rose still with slics of lemon-peel, wood-sorrel, or other herbs according to the _Physitians_ direction; being distilled, give it to the weak party to drink.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May