How To Use Sloe In A Sentence
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Here the hedges are best, not trimmed in brutal tidiness but rampant with hip-laden roses and garlanded by vivid bryony berries; and sprouting pithy wands of elder, strong grey spears of ash and angular spikes of black berried sloes.
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Crab apples were used, as were sloes, rose hips and rowan berries.
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`You can get me a drink in the interval,' said Vic, giving her a sloe-eyed grin.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The fruit, called sloe, can be made into a liqueur called sloe gin, of the "fizz" fame, but Ulrike discovered a distillery that makes it into a kind of sherry made of sloes.
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There are readers who love this kind of sloe eyed, narrow waisted, naval academic excercise in adjectivity.
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There must be routs and balls beneath sparkling chandeliers, where young gallants whirl sloe-eyed, bare-shouldered girls in the schottische and the carmagnole.
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Other members of the genus include the apricot, peach, sloe, and cherry.
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The hedgerows are rich with fruit, elderberries, blackberries, sloes, hips and damsons.
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I take great pleasure in pricking each berry with a needle in several places then dropping them into a bottle with sugar and gin, but others like to freeze the sloes in a plastic bag then bash them hard with a hammer or rolling pin.
Nigel Slater's classic sloe gin recipe
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The sloe is a shrub common in our hedgerows, and belongs to the natural order Amygdaleae; the fruit is about the size of a large pea, of a black colour, and covered with a bloom of a bright blue.
The Book of Household Management
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I finished down an arched spine of a ridge, village in view, and sloe tree scrub and birch, menacing fly agaric funghi, and a flashing flock of goldcrests.
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There are still some fat, red berries among the hawthorns, though, and blackthorn bushes have their own blue-black berries known as sloes, which make delicious sloe gin.
Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas
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This way came Dr. John, in visage, in shape, in hue, as unlike the dark, acerb, and caustic little professor, as the fruit of the Hesperides might be unlike the sloe in the wild thicket; as the high-couraged but tractable
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And it doesn't hurt that the drink's name also allows for the employment of a stock joke that turns on the fact that most people hear "slow" rather than "sloe" -- the purplish-red berry of the blackthorn bush that gives the liqueur its flavor.
No Kidding, It's Good
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She was full six feet high, wore a man's great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
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Along the way, the actress gained a reputation for qualities brash and enviable, as well as easily mocked: She was the sloe-eyed hipster, the vintage-clad vamp, the film snob.
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The third sort was a black berry, not in such plenty as the others, and resembled a bullace, or large kind of sloe, both in size and taste.
A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat
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The other plum of our wilds is the bullace (_P. institia_), the fruit of which differs from that of the sloe in being larger and less bitter.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852
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But how does the Cottesloe family feel about the loss of its foothold in posterity?
Dorfman or Cottesloe? Does it matter what a theatre is called?
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“Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain’t love, tell me what is …”
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Within the hour her repertoire included Rob Roy, Sidecar, Sloe Gin Fizz, Tom Collins and Comm Collins, (with vodka, so named by Russkie-hating Uncle Nick), and prettiest of all, Harvey Wallbanger, a froth as creamy yellow as the egg custard her mother whipped up for her when she was recovering from flu.
Radium
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The hedgerows are rich with fruit, elderberries, blackberries, sloes, hips and damsons.
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The sloe, which is the blackthorn, comes still earlier and has fewer leaves.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
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We descended among crab apples, sloes and whortleberries, and crossed the brook by a stout old clapper bridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cottesloe is on a winning streak because it also has Uncle Vanya, with a host of fine performances.
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First you're another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone's mother, then you're camp.
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There must be routs and balls beneath sparkling chandeliers, where young gallants whirl sloe-eyed, bare-shouldered girls in the schottische and the carmagnole.
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Those white margins were ribbons of sloe or blackthorn, bringing brilliance to the rich pasture lands and the promise of late summer bounty if a late frost doesn't prevent the setting of these wild cousins of the damson.
Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
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This record allowed New Zealand to win the Tri-Nations, retain the Bledisloe Cup, whitewash the British and Irish Lions, and gain their ‘Grand Slam’.
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Of course, the whole rational self-interest idea breaks down with suicide bombers - unless they believe the sloe-eyed virgin baloney.
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Real tea-leaf tea alone contains the restorative they want; which is not to be found in sloe-leaf tea.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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However, there appear to be lots of hips on the dog-rose, haws on the whitethorn and sloes on the blackthorn.
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Panama city beach condos a wordlessly undisputedly systematic sloe ago, i can easy wildfire how i neuropsychiatric to luau when i flagrantly thrombopenia to tetrao my littre.
Rational Review
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However, there appear to be lots of hips on the dog-rose, haws on the whitethorn and sloes on the blackthorn.
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Add the pickled sloes to the cooking juices and warm through.
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It connected us with a fruity hedge with brambles, rosehips, sloes, and a hundred yards of elders weighed down with berries.
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Sloe gin is flavored with sloe berries instead of juniper, the flavoring in regular gin.
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We is sloelee gettink betterer at teh salsa, vairy vairy sloelee.
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At this time of year, all the best gourmet restaurants have elderberry ice-cream on the menu and cooks are busy potting up rose hip chutney, quince jelly and bottling sloe gin liqueur.
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Then there are the sloes and bullaces, almost always to be found in old hedges, which at this season have a misty blue bloom on them, equal to any that we see on the grape.
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A vaudeville with hors d’ouevres, a sloe gin fizz to a fast jazz beat, doilies but no undies - “The Wild Party” has it all.
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And by late September, despite Dan's very rudimentary knowledge of tree taxonomy, he could clearly distinguish elders, hazels and sloes not to mention mountain ash and wild plums.
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The leaves of tea are mingled with sloe leaves and other abominations.
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A lanky, curly-haired young rebel with a kind of sloe-eyed charm, he’d grown up on a series of military bases where his father, a Marine lieutenant colonel, had served.
Rogue Warrior
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The Wallabies lack match practice and will be "underdone" for their final Bledisloe Cup match against New Zealand in Hong Kong next week, coach Robbie Deans warned on Friday.
Planet Rugby News - Rugby Union News
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There are still some fat, red berries among the hawthorns, though, and blackthorn bushes have their own blue-black berries known as sloes, which make delicious sloe gin.
Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas
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A delicious pampootie fool can be made quite cheaply as follows: 3 lb. of pampooties, 8 oz. of angelica paregoric, 1 imperial pint of sloe gin, 1 gill of ammoniated quinine, 9 oz. of rock salt.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914
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The proprietor, a sloe-eyed mestizo named Julio, set them up with local nut liqueurs and moonshine pinga.
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When you live in a labelocracy you can call yourself anything and if you have enough sloe-eyed bucktooth cork-brains who pop wood whenever this particular milf in mukluks winks at them then, gosh darn it you're a winner!
Steven Weber: The High Calling of a Low Brow
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She was full six feet high, wore a man’s great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine.
Guy Mannering
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After exchanging last-minute words with Cottsloe, Luc joined her; in short order, they were away.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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Seeming a lonely remnant of his dying breed, Brown's sloe-eyed, densely painted Buffalo in Golden Gate Park stands gazing blankly at the viewer beneath a solitary windblown pine.
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Decked out in a Napoleonic hat embellished with creepy tentacles, the giraffe-necked figure has a sloe-eyed green lizard draped around his high collar.
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A sloe-eyed seductress of uncertain age, flies in monthly to brave the sub-zero frigidity of Edmonton in the off-festival season.
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Ruby-red in colour, this sloe gin is a real snuggle-up-on-the-sofa drink, delivering a moreish palate with flavours similar to black cherries.
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The archaeologists also found remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash, the second the shape of a croquet mallet and made of sloe wood.
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On the trip he was medicated, so he kind of just stared at me sloe-eyed fighting sleep, and now he is beyond fine and well into wonderful.
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Where there were walls or hedges, bright orange rosehips, black sloes, red haws and yellow ivy bloom; a few bees, a small tortoiseshell butterfly.
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The Hungarian beauty could not exactly be described as an actress, but she had decorated numerous films with her sloe-eyed indifference.
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Tina was leaning out of an open doorway, giving him a sloe-eyed bedroom look that was painfully familiar.
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The hedges were as yet uncut and were fizzing with little birds, notably bright yellowhammers, and sloes dressed with a dark bloom hung enormous like grapes.
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However there is a sharp, short, climb for starters and woods with dusky sloes.
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Here the hedges are best, not trimmed in brutal tidiness but rampant with hip-laden roses and garlanded by vivid bryony berries; and sprouting pithy wands of elder, strong grey spears of ash and angular spikes of black berried sloes.
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Caltrop is quite rare in Cottesloe, as far as I know, and it looks like this infestation may have been introduced during works associated with the path construction, perhaps.
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This is the agreeable potation, extolled by the Londoners, as the finest water in the universe — As to the intoxicating potion, sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdashed with cyder, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Most prominent is Kevin, the sloe-eyed, dull-witted actor played by Dermot Mulroney almost as a pastiche of Keanu Reeves.
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He could clearly distinguish elders, hazels and sloes.
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Along the way you pass little old quarries, thickets and deep sloe hedges, and you might just catch the sound of gunfire.
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Before 1964, gas was manufactured at the old gasworks plant in Cottesloe.
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And there are some hedges left, and the one we followed for the first mile had a good mix of native species, thorn, elder, holly, hazel, wild rose, gooseberry, sloe and horse chestnut.
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Such is its success—it is now stocked in a swathe of upscale bars, including London's Savoy Hotel, Boca Grande restaurant in Barcelona and Soho House in Berlin—that Sipsmith has added sloe gin, vodka, damson vodka and a summer cup to its portfolio.
An Adventurous Spirit
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Crab apples were used as were sloes, rose hips and rowan berries.
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A smiling girl sits holding hands with a child-sized, but rather experienced-looking, sloe-eyed woman doll.
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Most prominent is Kevin, the sloe-eyed, dull-witted actor.
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Congrats, PB – Ai see ur aksident haz nawt sloed u doun atawl!
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On the other hand, someone taking 911 calls is sloetjes 24 points 59 minutes ago sloetjes 24 points 59 minutes ago RoboBama 7 points 1 hour ago*
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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The curved form, which can be related back to previous projects by ORA in the Cottesloe area relates primarily to the local environment, curving over on the southern side to minimise overshadowing to the southern neighbour and protecting the residence from the strong south-westerly winds.
Curtin Avenue Residence by Optimum Resource Architects
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The third sort was a blackberry; this was not in such plenty as the others and resembled a bullace, or large kind of sloe, both in size and taste.
A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
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Shutlingsloe is just one of the numerous miniature mountain gems in Britain where quality, not quantity is the main attraction.
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It connected us with a fruity hedge with brambles, rosehips, sloes, and a hundred yards of elders weighed down with berries.
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Wild fruit jellies, such as elderberry, rowanberry, sloe or crab apple, also make a great accompaniment.
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She has a mane of black hair, sloe eyes a fetching smile and a cute giggle.
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Last year the business sold 12,000 bottles of sloe gin and 20,000 boxes of sloe liqueur chocolates.
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Shutlingsloe is just one of the numerous miniature mountain gems in Britain where quality, not quantity is the main attraction.
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They are called sloes and inside is a fertile seed protected inside a hard stone.
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The hedges were as yet uncut and were fizzing with little birds, notably bright yellowhammers, and sloes dressed with a dark bloom hung enormous like grapes.
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Most sloe gin in the UK is homemade, much of it in English grandmothers 'kitchens, with actual sloe berries the inedibly bitter fruit of the blackthorn, a relative of the plum harvested from among the autumn hedgerows.
Spirits: It's sloe time
