"Fennel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trouble at all. The conductor was very kind; an old gentleman, who was pleased with her twinkling eyes and red cheeks, gave her an orange, and helped look after her baggage; two old ladies gave her fennel and peppermints; and before she reached Boston she was on terms of intimacy with six babies, a lapdog, and a canary-bird. Altogether, it had been a most charming journey, and she was almost sorry when they reached ...
— Gypsy Breynton • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... Orange, Teosinte Vetches—Spring Wild Rice Herbs—Anise, Balm, Borage, Caraway, Chervil Curled, Coriander, Dill, Horehound, Lavender, Rosemary, Rue, Sage (English Broadleaf), Summer Savory, Sweet Basil, Sweet Fennel, Sweet Marjoram, Tansy, Thyme (Broadleaf) Wormwood Grasses—Red Top Fancy Clean, Kentucky Blue Fancy Clean, Bermuda Grass, Fescue Meadow, Orchard Grass, Rye Grass (Perennial), Sweet Vernal, Hungarian Grass, Millet (German, Golden Japanese, Barnyard, Siberian), Lawn Grass (Crossman's ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis
... salacacabia of the Romans; one is made of parsley, pennyroyal, cheese, pine-tops, honey, brine, eggs, cucumbers, onions, and hen livers; the other is much the same as the soup-maigre of this country. Then there is a loin of veal boiled with fennel and caraway-seed, on a pottage composed of pickle, oil, honey, and flour, and a curious hachis of the lights, liver, and blood of a hare, together with a dish of roasted pigeons. Monsieur le baron, shall I help ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... the Lettice, Curl'd, Red, Cabbage, and Savoy. The Spinage round and prickly, Fennel, sweet and the common Sort, Samphire in the Marshes excellent, so is the Dock or Wild-Rhubarb, Rocket, Sorrel, French and English, Cresses of several Sorts, Purslain wild, and that of a larger Size ...
— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson
... not willed that men should have fire, and to go against the will of the gods would be impious. Prometheus went against the will of the gods. He stole fire from the altar of Zeus, and he hid it in a hollow fennel stalk, and he brought ...
— The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles • Padraic Colum
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