It is called horsetail or sewings, and is both fine and strong. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
This plant was a near relation of the "horsetail," or. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference
“queues de rat” ( 'horsetail') and “ronces” (= 'brambles'). From Wordnik.com. [sarcler - French Word-A-Day] Reference
The horsetail, after all, had been a sort of cover. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
As she puttered, her long hair swayed like a horsetail. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Present year round: pillow moss, horsetail, poison oak. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
"What's the matter, horsetail?" the golem demanded nastily. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Policy] Reference
Let the yellow-haired Giaours view his horsetail with dread. From Wordnik.com. [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference
Sharif Mamud waved away a bothersome fly with a horsetail whisk. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Out of her half-eggshell head sprout cutoff lengths of horsetail reeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin dialogue - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias] Reference
I hope the dey will make you a horsetail at the next promotion, ha, ha, ha!. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
Yappy scowled at some parrot droppings that had landed on a golden horsetail. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Waters] Reference
"Say what's on your mind, horsetail," Grundy said with his customary diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
Combine 1 teaspoon each dried chamomile flowers, oatstraw, and horsetail leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference
A simple eyewash can be made using horsetail tea or a tea of triphala combination. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
The herbs oatstraw and horsetail contain an easily assimilated form of these minerals. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference
And streaming out from the cleft of his handsomely shaped rump was a sleek black horsetail. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
He was wearing a purplish-black robe and long blue hair secured in back as a simple horsetail. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
In tea or pill form, these herbal preparations include burdock, buchu, cleavers, and horsetail. From Wordnik.com. [A Health Guide on the Safe and Proper Use of Diuretics] Reference
Let me remind you, you had a stout phallus in your backside with a good horsetail attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
The label says it contains, among other things, bladderwrack algae, tumeric, rosemary and horsetail. From Wordnik.com. [Perry Garfinkel: The Epsom Salt Talks: Bathtub Meditations on the Wellness Movement] Reference
Last week the Kochi horse-racing union sold out 500 of her lucky horsetail charms within three hours. From Wordnik.com. [Horse Racing: A Lose, Lose Situation] Reference
I couldn't bear to look at that thick mass of black horsetail, and yet I stared full at it as it was lifted. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
Then one rode forward, a tall man, taller than all the rest; from his helm as a crest a white horsetail flowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
He wore lime-whitened horsetail ornaments dangling from his shoulders, like a badge of rank that made up for his shorn head. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
But there was no horsetail and I was being given no boots, and when I realized this I was more afraid than I might have been. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
Hawthorn, horsetail, linden blossom, and pink tea are just a handful of the natural treats sourced globally to satiate the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Beauty] Reference
Likari came with us, and she put him to work, bringing fine sand to scrub my feet and handfuls of horsetail ferns to scrub my back. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
I felt my nakedness perhaps as I'd never felt it before, as though the harnesses and reins and the horsetail only further revealed me. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
Beglerbeg, or Governor-General, of Algiers (1519), and invested with the insignia of office, the horse and scimitar and horsetail-banner. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
With clanging scream, a horsetail plume his crest. From Wordnik.com. [Oedipus Trilogy] Reference
The horsetail-family may be taken as a further support of our assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
From the horsetail rushes fencing its patio to its sleek, inviting bar, Pagoda. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Hrithik makes a style statement!] Reference
Kagig came galloping back and found us four met together by a little horsetail waterfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference
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