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  • Stay on the trail in that area to avoid nettles and ticks.
    nettles = plants with stinging or irritating hairs
  • Then, using the loader, he lowered a thousand-gallon tank into the pit and buried it with a shovel, carefully planting nettles and sow thistle in the freshly tossed dirt so they would grow and conceal the tank.   (source)
  • He swept around in his long black cloak, watching them weigh dried nettles and crush snake fangs,   (source)
    nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
  • Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully on the tracks, fully aware of his entire body, his face, his mouth, his eyes stuffed with blackness, his ears stuffed with sound, his legs prickled with burrs and nettles, he saw the fire ahead.   (source)
    nettles = irritating hairs from certain  types of plants
  • for the congested passages you made a paste of boiled flour and nettles, wrapped it in a rag, and slapped it, sizzling, on the chest.   (source)
    nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
  • There were just nettles and thistles and weeds and half-bricks and lumps of stone.   (source)
  • The worst time was July—then they shredded nettles into the pot.   (source)
  • Nettles make the best greens, but have little tiny hairs on them that sting you all over when you're picking.   (source)
  •   …wine,
      Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line.
      Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,
      To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
      First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
      You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
      Second, different are those who stand at either end,
      But if you would move onward, neither is your friend;
      Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
      Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their…   (source)
    nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
  •   …to read it:
      Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
      Two of us will help you, which ever you would find,
      One among us seven will let you move ahead,
      Another will transport the drinker back instead,
      Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
      Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line.
      Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,
      To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
      First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
      You will always find some…   (source)
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  • "Well, then, to end the matter at once," said Goodman Brown, considerably nettled, "there is my wife, Faith."   (source)
    nettled = annoyed
  • 'I am working!' said Harry nettled.†   (source)
  • And because the mainland police couldn't collect Martin's body until the seas calmed, the townspeople were left with the nettlesome question of what to do with his body.†   (source)
  • His scorn of commerce — invigorating to me — nettled a lot of the more vocal kids in Honors English.†   (source)
  • "Of course not," Ullman said, nettled.†   (source)
  • Simon was nettled.†   (source)
  • But at the moment, his words nettled her.†   (source)
  • Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.†   (source)
  • The prison authorities refused permission for me to go, which nettled the nurses, and as a result, they decided to hold their party in my room, insisting they could not have their party without me.†   (source)
  • My tone nettled him.†   (source)
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  • That doesn't happen often in red-light districts, any more than farmers kill producing assets such as good milk cows, but from time to time a prostitute becomes so nettlesome that the owners kill her as a warning to the other girls.†   (source)
  • The flagon of mulled wine that Satin delivered helped them settle the more nettlesome points.†   (source)
  • A wild, willowy form stepped forth from the tree, and Max found himself staring at a dark woman with almond eyes, nettled hair, and glistening, reticulated skin that blended with the leaves and branches.†   (source)
  • As I feared it would, my lack of "cooperation" nettled the driver.†   (source)
  • JAMES [NETTLED]: You won't open her.†   (source)
  • JUDGE (Nettled) Well, sir?†   (source)
  • "I Don't go looking for trouble," said Harry, nettled.†   (source)
  • 'I didn't want anyone to talk to me,' said Harry, who was feeling more and more nettled.†   (source)
  • I've never heard of that before," Alec said, nettled.†   (source)
  • BRADY is nettled: this is his show, and he wants all the laughs.†   (source)
  • He was a physician and a teacher and a practicing politician, so nettlesome in opposition to Germany's imperial ambitions that Bismarck once challenged him to a duel.†   (source)
  • So wa-a-aid a minid," drawled Kushy delighted at Izzy's nettled tone.†   (source)
  • Leo's voice was nettled.†   (source)
  • And my mind went back ten years to the evening at Brideshead, when that lovely, spidery child of nineteen, as though brought in for an hour from the nursery and nettled by lack of attention from the grown-ups, had said: "I'm causing anxiety, too, you know," and I had thought at the time, though scarcely, it now seemed to me, in long trousers myself, "How important these girls make themselves with their love affairs."†   (source)
  • Thus, before he was ten, Eugene's brooding spirit was nettled in the complexity of truth and seeming.†   (source)
  • Even before Scarlett was able to be about again, she noticed Rhett's pre-occupation with the baby and was somewhat nettled and embarrassed at his pride in her in front of callers.†   (source)
  • Leo was nettled.†   (source)
  • His ardour was nettled at the sight, for the act on her part had been unconsciously done.†   (source)
  • He had been growing nettled before, but now he pulled himself together.†   (source)
  • "Is that so black a thing?" queried Kells, evidently nettled, and he glared at her.†   (source)
  • [nettled] Well, you've no capacity for enjoyment.†   (source)
  • It thrilled her, yet nettled her a little.†   (source)
  • "Did I ever hear him!" said the invalid, nettled.†   (source)
  • Eleanor laughed in spite of being half nettled.†   (source)
  • At any rate, I didn't," says the trooper, rather nettled.†   (source)
  • "No, indeed, Mrs. Fairfax!" exclaimed I, nettled; "he is nothing like my father!†   (source)
  • "Why should he?" again demanded her mistress, wearing a nettled look.†   (source)
  • It was pretty severe, but I was nettled.†   (source)
  • Mr Rugg, without concealing that he was nettled and mortified, replied: 'Oh!†   (source)
  • "Well?" said I, a little bit nettled by his merriment.†   (source)
  • It was rather weak in me I confess, but his manner on this occasion nettled me.†   (source)
  • "Then, why don't you extend your liberality to others?" said Will, still nettled.†   (source)
  • Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances.†   (source)
  • "I didn't want to take a liberty with Brooke," said Sir James; "I see he is nettled.†   (source)
  • You are actually nettled by this slight from an unexpected quarter.†   (source)
  • "I have heard a waif word in the country," said I, a little nettled, "that you were a hard man to drive."†   (source)
  • What's so funny?" he queried, nettled.†   (source)
  • For there was in Sir William, whose father had been a tradesman, a natural respect for breeding and clothing, which shabbiness nettled; again, more profoundly, there was in Sir William, who had never had time for reading, a grudge, deeply buried, against cultivated people who came into his room and intimated that doctors, whose profession is a constant strain upon all the highest faculties, are not educated men.†   (source)
  • Archer inclined to the former theory; he fancied that her New York was still completely undifferentiated, and the conjecture nettled him.†   (source)
  • "Well, to go on," proceeded Mason, now more nettled and annoyed than ever by this watchful effort on the part of Belknap and Jephson to break the force and significance of his each and every attack, and all the more determined not to be outdone—"you say you didn't intend to marry her if you could help it, before you went up there?"†   (source)
  • Dale's remark evidently nettled Roy.†   (source)
  • But Helen was nettled.†   (source)
  • Mildred was nettled.†   (source)
  • It never occurred to him to doubt me, for a Highlander is used to see great gentlefolk in great poverty; but as he had no estate of his own, my words nettled a very childish vanity he had.†   (source)
  • "If you mean me by that," said Mr. Tulliver, considerably nettled, "you needn't trouble yourself to fret about me.†   (source)
  • "Don't be nettled, Mr. Lorry.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Steerforth appeared to me to regret having been a little nettled; for she presently said, in a kind tone: 'Well, my dear Rosa, we have not heard what it is that you want to be satisfied about?'†   (source)
  • "Well, I don't know," said he, a little nettled, "I draw tolerably—should do it at least—have had good masters, and flatter myself that I am not quite a blockhead."†   (source)
  • He had been nettled all day, and now at this he rose with a half-smothered oath, took his hat and cane, and walked straight to the schoolhouse.†   (source)
  • Persuaded as Miss Bingley was that Darcy admired Elizabeth, this was not the best method of recommending herself; but angry people are not always wise; and in seeing him at last look somewhat nettled, she had all the success she expected.†   (source)
  • MRS WARREN [nettled] Why not?†   (source)
  • 'I say,' interposed John Browdie, nettled by these accumulated attacks on his wife, 'dra' it mild, dra' it mild.'†   (source)
  • 'Bah!' he whispered, as though nettled by the interruption; 'it's the man I expected before; he's coming downstairs.†   (source)
  • He seemed disappointed to hear of Lucetta's absence and though he nodded with outward indifference he went away handling his beard with a nettled mien.†   (source)
  • "The signification of Eau-douce is sweet-water, and it is the manner in which the French express fresh-water," rejoined Jasper, a little nettled.†   (source)
  • This nettled her.†   (source)
  • Kim hurried to his carriage: elated, bewildered, but a little nettled in that he had no key to the secrets about him.†   (source)
  • "No honest man will deny it," said the scout, a little nettled at the implied distrust of his explanation of the mystery of the tides; "and I grant that it is true on the small scale, and where the land is level.†   (source)
  • "Can't a fellow take a little innocent amusement now and then without losing his respectability?" asked Laurie, looking nettled.†   (source)
  • Recollection of the strange antics she had indulged in when passing through the trees was succeeded in the girl by a nettled palpitation, and that by a hot face.†   (source)
  • This last was a reminiscence of some talk with a Eurasian clerk in the Canal Department, but it only drew a smile, which nettled him.†   (source)
  • I was rather nettled by this inconsequence, and said: "Well, neighbour, to be short, and without using metaphors, in the land whence I come, where the competition which produced those literary works which you admire so much is still the rule, most people are thoroughly unhappy; here, to me at least most people seem thoroughly happy."†   (source)
  • …avenge the insult; but remembering that the man was drunk, and that it could come to little but a noisy brawl, he contented himself with darting a contemptuous look at the tyrant, and walked, as majestically as he could, upstairs: not a little nettled, however, to observe that Miss Squeers and Master Squeers, and the servant girl, were enjoying the scene from a snug corner; the two former indulging in many edifying remarks about the presumption of poor upstarts, which occasioned a vast…†   (source)
  • The nettled, clouded aspect which had held possession of his face since the subject of his corn-dealings had been broached, changed itself into one of arrested attention.†   (source)
  • "My pursuits are peaceful, and my temper, I humbly trust, is greatly given to mercy and love," returned David, a little nettled at so direct an attack on his manhood; "but there are none who can say that I have ever forgotten my faith in the Lord, even in the greatest straits."†   (source)
  • "Do you mean that I cry up Brooke on any personal ground?" said Will Ladislaw, nettled, and turning sharp round.†   (source)
  • His general demeanour was enough to show how he was surprised and nettled that his wife had taken him so literally—as much could be seen in his face, and in the way he nibbled a straw which he pulled from the hedge.†   (source)
  • Being decidedly nettled herself, and longing to see him shake off the apathy that so altered him, Amy sharpened both tongue and pencil, and began.†   (source)
  • "Very likely not; but you have been no loser by my trade yet," said Mr. Vincy, thoroughly nettled (a result which was seldom much retarded by previous resolutions).†   (source)
  • Now, Jo did not like to leave it, for Mr. Dashwood didn't suit her at all, but, under the circumstances, there was nothing for her to do but bow and walk away, looking particularly tall and dignified, as she was apt to do when nettled or abashed.†   (source)
  • Keimer, being in the street, look'd up and saw me, call'd out to me in a loud voice and angry tone to mind my business, adding some reproachful words, that nettled me the more for their publicity, all the neighbors who were looking out on the same occasion being witnesses how I was treated.†   (source)
  • 'What is you griggling at?' the BFG asked her, slightly nettled.†   (source)
  • Nettled not a little by L. Boom (as it incorrectly stated) and the line of bitched type but tickled to death simultaneously by C. P. M'Coy and Stephen Dedalus B. A. who were conspicuous, needless to say, by their total absence (to say nothing of M'Intosh) L. Boom pointed it out to his companion B. A. engaged in stifling another yawn, half nervousness, not forgetting the usual crop of nonsensical howlers of misprints.†   (source)
  • Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods, Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.†   (source)
  • One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was so nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising himself upon the frame of her majesty's chair, he took me up by the middle, as I was sitting down, not thinking any harm, and let me drop into a large silver bowl of cream, and then ran away as fast as he could.†   (source)
  • Mrs Fitzpatrick was a little nettled at this; and indeed, if it may not be called a lapse of the tongue, it was a small deviation from politeness in Jones, and into which he scarce would have fallen, had not the delight he felt in praising Sophia hurried him out of all reflection; for this commendation of one cousin was more than a tacit rebuke on the other.†   (source)
  • Partridge was now highly comforted, as his fears of having offended were at once abolished, and his pride completely satisfied by Jones having owned himself in the wrong, which submission he instantly applied to what had principally nettled him, and repeated in a muttering voice, "To be sure, sir, your knowledge may be superior to mine in some things; but as to the grammar, I think I may challenge any man living.†   (source)
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  • Madam Z. Nettles of Topsham writes: "I had no memory for incantations and my potions were a family joke!†   (source)
  • Nettle?†   (source)
  • With nothing but nettles to show where I rest.†   (source)
  • But now he was knee-high in nettles, laughing.†   (source)
  • Lilies of the valley were poisonous, and daffodils, and horse nettles and ground-cherries, rhubarb leaves, of course, garden foxgloves, English ivy.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Pitaji's life assignment was merely to crunch one small piece of gravel as he jumped out of the bus that morning, and once he did it, perhaps God took the form of a maddened bull, or God took the form of nettles that caused a perfectly harmless bull enough pain to charge.†   (source)
  • All summer the smells of nettles and daisies and rainwater purl through the gardens.†   (source)
  • Sheep's milk," Nettle said.†   (source)
  • The thought of Cat was as painful as a bed of nettles.†   (source)
  • That's what nettles me.†   (source)
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  • I'd worked out how to quit for good, if I wanted to: steep taper, seven day timetable, plenty of loperamide; magnesium supplements and free form amino acids to replenish my burnt-out neurotransmitters; protein powder, electrolyte powder, melatonin (and weed) for sleep as well as various herbal tinctures and potions my fashion intern swore by, licorice root and milk thistle, nettles and hops and black cumin seed oil, valerian root and skullcap extract.†   (source)
  • We pushed through, treading down nettles.†   (source)
  • Holly grabbed the remains of a nettle smoothie from the cooler and drank it in the tunnels.†   (source)
  • But unhappily, I was on top of a stinging nettle that was driving me mad.†   (source)
  • His mockery hurt like stinging nettles.†   (source)
  • Green nettles nodded.†   (source)
  • On either side of the overgrown path, trees rose high into the heavens and the undergrowth was surprisingly thick: wild brambles and thorn bushes scraped at the side of the car, while furze, gorse, and stinging nettles, wrapped through with poison ivy, completed the impenetrable hedge.†   (source)
  • I catch her looking me over with her small pink eyes, and devising what sensational tales she will tell her friends if any, about taking her tea with a celebrated murderess, who ought by rights to have been strung up long since, and cut into slabs by the doctors, like butchers dressing a carcass, and what was left of me after they'd finished done up into a bundle, just like a suet pudding, and left to moulder in a dishonoured grave, with nothing growing on it but thistles and nettles.†   (source)
  • Sarayu, I know you are the Creator, but did you make the poisonous plants, stinging nettles, and mosquitoes, too?†   (source)
  • Nightshade, no. Nettle …. perhaps.†   (source)
  • All the same, when donors get restless and need to walk it off, that's where they tend to go, scraping through all the nettles and brambles.†   (source)
  • I don't want to nettle him.†   (source)
  • He was given cortisone salve for the rash from the stinging nettles on his neck and hands.†   (source)
  • My mother brewed us scotch tea, strong, with milk, the way she used to when I was tomboying around and someone would push me in the nettle patch or I'd fall off my bicycle.†   (source)
  • The backs of his hands began to crawl and prickle as if he had fallen into a patch of stinging nettles.†   (source)
  • He was blinded by the rain beating down, the tough, wet vines dragged at his legs and feet, and thorns and nettles tormented his hands and arms and face.†   (source)
  • Maybe the virus lives in nettles.†   (source)
  • "I reckon 'e's in them nettles."†   (source)
  • Ursula found him there one afternoon when she was going about sprinkling the house with distilled water and a bunch of nettles, and in spite of the fact that she had been with him many times she asked him who he was.†   (source)
  • The other girls rush past us in the halls like nettles blown across a lawn.†   (source)
  • No tree grew there, only rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks and wood-parsley, fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes, and rampant nettles and thistles.†   (source)
  • As is the custom, therefore, I will have to whip you with a switch of nettles and then tie you to a red-ant hill.†   (source)
  • He quickly walked into the underbrush beyond the border of floodlights, the nettles of the wild shrubbery stinging his bare legs.†   (source)
  • Nettle beer.†   (source)
  • A sea nettle hitting me in the face couldn't have stung worse.†   (source)
  • His mount was nearby, quietly nosing about for grass and nettles as its hooves scraped through the crusted snow.†   (source)
  • Me and Granpa many times failed to notice a nettle patch, but Granma would find it and we would pick them.†   (source)
  • It was hot work, and the corn shucks made my skin itch and sting till sometimes I'd wake up at night scratching like I'd stumbled into a patch of bull nettles.†   (source)
  • They tried the other side of the castle, passing out of the hall by a little side door into a maze of stony humps and hollows which must once have been passages and smaller rooms but was now all nettles and wild roses.†   (source)
  • When he was young, he thought, he could bring himself into God's presence by grasping the sharp nettle of beauty, but now he didn't dare.†   (source)
  • The drops stung my face like nettles, and the wind flared the wet glistening leaves of the bordering trees.†   (source)
  • Beneath the roughened skin, he can feel the rash begin to prickle; stinging nettles against his face.†   (source)
  • Nettles on your feet.†   (source)
  • Sidings and dead ends, nettles and dandelions.†   (source)
  • He had learned about a forest vine much like a morning glory, but its leaves carried a sting worse than that of a nettle, toxic and producing numbness.†   (source)
  • Nettles grew all around it, their tips reaching the windows, which were tiny and thick with grime.†   (source)
  • Nettle had put his boots back on, but he had left them loose, with the laces trailing.†   (source)
  • It avoided the clumps of nettles, and sidestepped known ditches and anthills.†   (source)
  • He threw himself flat through the curtain of brush and rolled through a sea of stinging nettles.†   (source)
  • Turner and Nettle were ahead of him, making a path through the crowd.†   (source)
  • A group of soldiers came in looking for shelter and striking matches, just as he and Nettle had.†   (source)
  • He followed Mace and Nettle into the din and fumy stench of the first bar along the front.†   (source)
  • The water was vile, but it helped and so did the news and Nettle's soothing whisper.†   (source)
  • "We could get robbed blind," Nettle agreed.†   (source)
  • Nettle arranged the greatcoat around Turner's shoulders.†   (source)
  • When Nettle ducked behind the counter to rummage around, there were jeers.†   (source)
  • As they were walking back across the field, Nettle joined them.†   (source)
  • He steadied himself against Nettle's shoulder.†   (source)
  • But having caught the pig, Nettle thought it was fair dos to crack open a bottle now.†   (source)
  • "Fifth columnists, they would be," Nettle said.†   (source)
  • Henri wore glasses, which Nettle said looked odd on a farmer.†   (source)
  • Turner knew this was not the place, but he could not resist Nettle's unusual determination.†   (source)
  • Nettle and Mace were for getting a lift.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, Nettle knew where it lived.†   (source)
  • In order not to alarm Nettle, he tried to sound more reasonable than he really felt.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Turner that he and Nettle had set out to look for Mace, and then forgot about him.†   (source)
  • The exultant crowd exploded from the bar like champagne, hurling Turner and Nettle aside.†   (source)
  • Grabbing him by his jacket, Nettle pulled him down a scree of broken bricks.†   (source)
  • Turner was thinking this when Nettle gripped his arm and pointed.†   (source)
  • "It's your left, remember, guv'nor," Nettle said.†   (source)
  • I also intended to donate to the archives my dozen long letters from old Mr. Nettle.†   (source)
  • It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht," Nettle called out in Cockney.†   (source)
  • The wine was taking hold of Corporal Nettle.†   (source)
  • Nettle slid the bottle back into his haversack.†   (source)
  • He found Mace and Nettle shoulder deep in a hole.†   (source)
  • Nettle banged it in with the back of his shovel.†   (source)
  • Nettle took from his bag two cartons of cigarettes.†   (source)
  • Nettle cocked his head in the direction of the door and they began to converge on it.†   (source)
  • Nettle was suddenly at Turner's side and they exchanged a look.†   (source)
  • Turner did not know how he and Nettle came to be here, in this particular narrow street.†   (source)
  • "I won't say a word," he said, though Nettle's head had long disappeared from his view.†   (source)
  • Still in the grave, he and Nettle sang tunelessly for Turner's benefit.†   (source)
  • Mace found a heap of sacks and with Nettle's help stuffed them to make up three mattresses.†   (source)
  • After a while Nettle nudged him awake and slipped the bottle of wine into his hands.†   (source)
  • With a dirty hand, Nettle was wiping Turner's forehead.†   (source)
  • Corporal Nettle said, "It don't show crumpet, that map.†   (source)
  • Nettle was whispering in Mace's ear and he was nodding.†   (source)
  • Nettle fetched the basket and they spread out what they had on their table.†   (source)
  • I handed over the bundle of letters Mr. Nettle wrote me about Dunkirk—most gratefully received.†   (source)
  • Nettle said, "I like the sound of those."†   (source)
  • Nettle was seized by the idea of dragging out some bedding.†   (source)
  • Nettle, the lorry driver, took out another cigarette and said, "So, which way, guv'nor?†   (source)
  • Corporal Mace was a cook in the same RASC unit as Corporal Nettle.†   (source)
  • She was giving the nettles a good thrashing.†   (source)
  • "Found some nettles and brewed a tea," Shadd announced.†   (source)
  • I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter.†   (source)
  • The mist swirled round Fiver as he crept through thistles and nettles.†   (source)
  • The rustling of the nettles grew louder, stirred by the westward wind.†   (source)
  • The nettle beer, however, was new to me.†   (source)
  • Stinging cells in the nettle inject a poison into the skin.†   (source)
  • Weeds and thorns and nettles grew in that wasteland, but nothing that could be called a crop.†   (source)
  • Murtagh shook his head and continued to stare over the nettles.†   (source)
  • Hazel crawled through the nettles, dragging his injured leg.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that nettles are, in fact, injection needles.†   (source)
  • Then he turned away and stared out over the sea of nettles.†   (source)
  • Between the hill and the river lay a sea of nettles.†   (source)
  • Terror, terror, show your mettle, take the scab, throw them in the nettle.†   (source)
  • '1 knew yeh'd say yes,' said Hagrid into his handkerchief, 'but I won'… never… forget… well… c'mon… jus' a little bit further through here… watch yerselves, now, there's nettles…'†   (source)
  • A sign had risen out of the ground in front of them, up thorough the tangles of nettles and weeds, like some bizarre, fast-growing flower, and in golden letters upon the wood it said: On this spot, on this night of 31 October 1981, Lily and James Potter lost their lives.†   (source)
  • 'Hagrid,' said Hermione breathlessly, skirting the patch of nettles they had passed on their way there, 'if the centaurs don't want humans in the Forest, it doesn't really look as though Harry and I will be able —'†   (source)
  • Nettle it was, Your Excellency.†   (source)
  • It didn't mention the ten-foot-tall stinging nettles either, or the brambles and the things that slip inside your sandals and stab you in the soft flesh under your toes.†   (source)
  • I imagine you could make it up to both Lady Lack-less and myself if you found some sweet nettle for the pot tonight.†   (source)
  • He put the paperweight down on the ground that had once been a nettle-patch, placed it in the place that he estimated her head would have been, and pausing only to look at his handiwork for a moment, he went through the railings and made his way, rather less gingerly, back up the hill.†   (source)
  • By any chance, is it nettle?†   (source)
  • When he had gone to the shed to return the jeans, he had taken a small hand-scythe from the wall where it hung, and with it he attacked the nettle-patch in the Potter's Field, sending the nettles flying, slashing and gutting them till there was nothing but stinging stubble on the ground.†   (source)
  • Liza Hempstock, who had been Bod's friend for the last six years, was different in another way; she was less likely to be there for him when Bod went down to the nettle-patch to see her, and on the rare occasions when she was, she would be short-tempered, argumentative, and often downright rude.†   (source)
  • When he had gone to the shed to return the jeans, he had taken a small hand-scythe from the wall where it hung, and with it he attacked the nettle-patch in the Potter's Field, sending the nettles flying, slashing and gutting them till there was nothing but stinging stubble on the ground.†   (source)
  • The graveyard proper ended at the bottom of the west side of the hill, beneath the old apple tree, with a fence of rust-brown iron railings, each topped with a small, rusting spearhead, but there was a wasteland beyond that, a mass of nettles and weeds, of brambles and autumnal rubbish, and Bod, who was, on the whole, obedient, did not push between the railings, but he went down there and looked through.†   (source)
  • We'll get the pig," he said to Nettle.†   (source)
  • Then she glanced with distaste at Nettle, and at last pointed along the street to where a pig was nosing around in the gutter.†   (source)
  • They tipped the dirty water away onto the base of a clump of snapdragons which, Nettle said, made him homesick for his parents' back garden.†   (source)
  • And perhaps the corporals weren't such complete dolts—Mace with his straw mattresses, Nettle with his gift for the brothers.†   (source)
  • Moving soundlessly, Nettle groped in his haversack for the saucisson, cut it into three and passed a piece to Turner with a chunk of bread.†   (source)
  • Corporal Nettle said dreamily, "It was Lord Gort what wrote out that order, sir, and sent it down personally."†   (source)
  • Nettle, his front teeth resting on his lower lip in a look of kindly rodent bafflement, let him finish and said, "I knew it.†   (source)
  • Nettle struck a match and held it up.†   (source)
  • This was the moment Turner chose to describe to Nettle the kind of place that he had in mind for dinner.†   (source)
  • The Frenchmen made a polite show of refusing, but Nettle came round the table and shoved the gifts into their arms.†   (source)
  • Behind Corporal Nettle's head was a wide strip of deep blue sky and, etched against it, the ragged black edge of the cellar's ruined ceiling.†   (source)
  • After some coaxing, Nettle was persuaded to take back his boots, tie them together and carry them round his neck.†   (source)
  • Turner and Nettle had melted away too.†   (source)
  • He heard Mace and Nettle do the same.†   (source)
  • He backed away awkwardly, and then they were walking down the street and he was translating her words for Nettle.†   (source)
  • In sudden petulance, Corporal Nettle sat down in the road, took off his boots and flung them into a field.†   (source)
  • He saw no reason why Nettle should think it necessary to put his face, his worried ratty face, so close to his own.†   (source)
  • Look at the concentration in her face, judging the angle, never fudging a shot, taking each nettle with inhuman precision.†   (source)
  • Nettle, who was just behind, kicked the Renault door shut with such ferocity that the wing mirror fell off.†   (source)
  • On the landing above—Turner and Nettle could just see boots and lower legs moving stiffly from side to side—a fight was developing, with wrestling grunts and a smack of knuckles on flesh.†   (source)
  • And Nettle was frightened of her.†   (source)
  • Nettle was long used to following Turner's suggestions, for they were generally sound, but as they went up the street the corporal was muttering, "There's something not right with you, guv'nor."†   (source)
  • Nettle said, "Nice-looking kid."†   (source)
  • Someone, as usual, was cursing the RAE Turner stood up and was dusting himself down when Nettle and Mace emerged and together they walked back toward the major who was sitting on the ground.†   (source)
  • Now the weight was off his feet, an ecstasy of relief spread upward through his knees and he knew he would not move again that night, however disappointed Nettle might be.†   (source)
  • On the first night, when they were sheltering in the bike shed of a burned-out school, Corporal Nettle said, "What's a private soldier like you doing talking like a toff?†   (source)
  • Nettle and Mace followed him.†   (source)
  • Then playwriting itself became a nettle, became several in fact; the shallowness, the wasted time, the messiness of other minds, the hopelessness of pretending—in the garden of the arts, it was a weed and had to die.†   (source)
  • A tall nettle with a preening look, its head coyly drooping and its middle leaves turned outward like hands protesting innocence—this was Lola, and though she whimpered for mercy, the singing arc of a three-foot switch cut her down at the knees and sent her worthless torso flying.†   (source)
  • …her godly power of creation, but it was only at this moment of return that the loss became evident; part of a daydream's enticement was the illusion that she was helpless before its logic: forced by international rivalry to compete at the highest level among the world's finest and to accept the challenges that came with preeminence in her field—her field of nettle slashing—driven to push beyond her limits to assuage the roaring crowd, and to be the best, and, most importantly, unique.†   (source)
  • She was becoming a solitary girl swiping nettles with a stick, and at last she stopped and tossed it toward the trees and looked around her.†   (source)
  • Flaying the nettles was becoming a self-purification, and it was childhood she set about now, having no further need for it.†   (source)
  • A ragged line of chopped nettles on the grass marked her progress, as did the stinging white bumps on her feet and ankles.†   (source)
  • The legs had been kicked away and used to break the windows, and were lying outside, softly crumbling into the earth among the nettles and the incorruptible shards of glass.†   (source)
  • When Lola had died enough, three pairs of young nettles were sacrificed for the incompetence of the twins—retribution was indifferent and granted no special favors to children.†   (source)
  • But here too there would be no light, no way of keeping to the path or ducking the branches that hung low over it, or dodging the nettles that grew thickly on either side.†   (source)
  • It is hard to slash at nettles for long without a story imposing itself, and Briony was soon absorbed and grimly content, even though she appeared to the world like a girl in the grip of a terrible mood.†   (source)
  • This was too satisfying to let go, and the next several nettles were Lola too; this one, leaning across to whisper in the ear of its neighbor, was cut down with an outrageous lie on her lips; here she was again, standing apart from the others, head cocked in poisonous scheming; over there she lorded it among a clump of young admirers and was spreading rumors about Briony.†   (source)
  • Removing two goblets from a cupboard, Arya crumbled dried nettle leaves into them, then filled the goblets with water and-saying "Boil"-heated the water for tea.†   (source)
  • Bourne crawled slowly, ever so slowly, across the expanse of tall, starched grass filled with nettles, pulling the needles from his neck and forehead, grateful for the nylon jacket that repelled them.†   (source)
  • Try to burn out the corruption with boiling wine and a poultice of nettle, mustard seed, and bread mold.†   (source)
  • Or he might have eaten some nettles.†   (source)
  • Chapter 70 — A SEA OF NETTLES.†   (source)
  • While the sky brightened to a thin wash of blue, Max watched and waited, still as a stone among the roots and nettles.†   (source)
  • Nettles claims we're kin.†   (source)
  • Look…… " Loosening the ties on the cuff of his left shirtsleeve, he pushed back the soft lamarae-a fabric the elves made by cross-weaving wool and nettle threads-revealing a rancid yellow streak where his shield had mashed against his forearm.†   (source)
  • One time, Granpa was pulling and dragging the plow around through a mass of nettles, and stepped in a stump hole.†   (source)
  • She surprised Eragon by leading them deeper into Du Weldenvarden, down paths tangled with nettles and currant bushes, until the lights around them vanished and they entered the restless wilderness.†   (source)
  • Quickly I said, "Since there are no men to give the rites, perhaps you will not have to undergo the nettles and the ants, Chief Ramo."†   (source)
  • We drowned the wound with boiling wine, and closed you up with a poultice of nettle, mustard seed and moldy bread, but unless you rest ….†   (source)
  • Into it each crab pot will be emptied and from it the legal-sized crabs--hard, peeler, and soft--will be culled from their smaller kin as well as from the blowfish, sea nettles, seaweed, shells, and garbage, all such unwelcome harvest as the Bay seems ever generous to offer up.†   (source)
  • Once there, I handed Elizabeth a flask of nettle tonic, with instructions on how best to dose her mother.†   (source)
  • Then the yellow dandelions poked up everywhere along the lower hollow, and we picked them for greens— which are good when you mix them with fireweed greens, poke salat and nettles.†   (source)
  • Giant stinging nettles grew in clumps among the boulders, and they brushed against our bare skin and caught our legs on fire.†   (source)
  • I told Elizabeth Bradford to ride in haste to my cottage and instructed her where she might find a flask of nettle tonic, which I deemed might strengthen her mother.†   (source)
  • As he somersaulted into a clump of nettles in the ditch bottom, he remembered vividly the scent of beanflowers at sunset.†   (source)
  • They returned under the arch and as Silver came out of the bushes to meet them, they could hear the other rabbits stirring uneasily among the nettles.†   (source)
  • Sunlight fell in shafts to the forest floor, washing over glades where nettles and papyrus sparkled with wild violets.†   (source)
  • And besides," she said, shooting me a sly sideways glance from under her long lashes, "sometimes a woman needs a draught of nettle beer to wake her up, and sometimes she needs a dish of valerian tea to calm her down.†   (source)
  • Nettle for the blood.†   (source)
  • Ahead of them there was nothing to be seen but a track leading through the nettles into another wide and empty field.†   (source)
  • By the edge of the nettles sat Thorn.†   (source)
  • Nettle?†   (source)
  • A slight breeze started, and in the sound of it brushing against the sides of the tower, Eragon heard the rustling of the sawtooth nettles.†   (source)
  • Blackberry led the way to the trampled patch of nettles and Fiver sat still among them, sniffing and looking about him in the silence.†   (source)
  • Eragon did likewise, and Thorn took three loping steps away from the sea of nettles and leaped into the sky, leaving tracklike gouges in the soft earth below.†   (source)
  • There, well before sunset, Kehaar, flying westward down the Belt, spotted the rabbits lying up, all among the nettles and goose grass.†   (source)
  • "Kehaar," said Bigwig, as they waited for Thethuthinnang to struggle up to them through a half-flattened clump of nettles, "will you go and see whether you can spot the Efrafans?†   (source)
  • The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side, wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette end somewhere in the grass.†   (source)
  • Fiver sat trembling and crying among the nettles as Hazel tried to reassure him and to find out what it could be that had suddenly driven him beside himself.†   (source)
  • They were coming to a thicket of juniper and dog roses, tangled at ground level with nettles and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning to ripen and turn red.†   (source)
  • He was lucky enough to come upon a short length of old, overgrown ditch, partly fallen in and so heavily overhung with cow parsley and nettles that it was almost as sheltered as a tunnel; and all four of them made sure that they could reach it quickly from the open.†   (source)
  • Campion, crouching in a patch of nettles with Vervain and four or five more, met with nothing but shivering agreement when he said that he was sure that they ought to leave at once this dangerous place, where they had already stayed far too long.†   (source)
  • I may have made it up about the nettles.†   (source)
  • Nettles were everywhere, the vanguard of the army.†   (source)
  • Yet he made one effort to grasp the nettle.†   (source)
  • I stood looking into the neglected garden choked with nettles.†   (source)
  • It was as though someone waited down there, in the little garden where the nettles grew.†   (source)
  • I left the drive and went on to the terrace, for the nettles were no barrier to me, a dreamer.†   (source)
  • There were nettles in the garden, ten foot, twenty foot high.†   (source)
  • There must have been a garden once, but now the grass was long and overgrown, crowded with nettles.†   (source)
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