lords-and-ladies

How To Use lords-and-ladies In A Sentence

• These are the fruit of lords-and-ladies, or cuckoo-pint. Times, Sunday Times
• I remember my mother's horror when I ate the lords-and-ladies berries that still grow by the garden walls. Hancox: All under one roof
• A gleam of red spotted in a dark ditch reveals a spike of the orange-red berries of lords-and-ladies, or cuckoo-pint. Times, Sunday Times
• Orchis-harlequins, cuckoo-plants, wild arums, more properly lords-and-ladies, were coming, and coming -- slowly; for had they not a long way to come, from the valley of the shadow of death into the land of life? David Elginbrod
• The cuckoopint is an arum that appears in our woods in April, and is also known as lords-and-ladies, starch-root, Adam-and-Eve, bobbins and Wake Robin. The power of spring flowers
• The annual survey of willd flowers by the charity Plantlife found plants that can tolerate high levels of nitrogen from the artificial fertilisers used in farming, like the common nettle, cow parsley and lords-and-ladies, are flourishing. EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
• I give you this bouquetof saxifrage sneezewortspurge ragged robinasphodel lords-and-ladies.'' Poems for a wedding
• The first business of this part of the tongue is, therefore, to warn us emphatically against caustic substances and corrosive acids, against vitriol and kerosene, spirits of wine and ether, capsicums and burning leaves or roots, such as those of the common English lords-and-ladies. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• Higher on the ditch banks the leaves of cuckoo-pint, or lords-and-ladies, are pushing up. Times, Sunday Times
• The leaves of cuckoo-pint, or lords-and-ladies, are out on hedge banks and in dry ditches. Times, Sunday Times