Weeds lovely in their rankness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : tall rank weeds. ,a rank cigar. ,a rank amateur; rank treachery. ,a rank sight of carnage. ,rank language. From Dictionary.com.
Related: Wev McEwan on the Rank and File's rankness. From Wordnik.com. [A party held together with spit, chewing gum, baling wire, and duct tape] Reference
They were almost too luxuriant, approaching to rankness. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Hemp flourishes even to rankness so that we need not want cordage. From Wordnik.com. [Common Sense] Reference
I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. From Wordnik.com. [As You Like It] Reference
It can be quite spicy, but there is a rankness to it I didn't quite like. From Wordnik.com. [South Beach and beef jerky | Homesick Texan] Reference
It is from the rankness of that soil that she hath her height and spreadings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference
“Hemp flourishes even to rankness,” Paine wrote, “we do not want for cordage.”. From Wordnik.com. [King Hemp IV: Rope and Dope] Reference
There was a faint whiff of latrine, perceptible beyond the ripe rankness of her guards. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
The rapidity and rankness of vegetable growth renders the region unsuited to agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Oats and mustard grow spontaneously, with such rankness as to be considered nuisances upon the soil. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in California] Reference
And we should think nothing of informing them immediately that their rankness needs to be addressed. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Olfactory Terror at 36K Feet] Reference
Cackling laughter bubbled up from noisome depths and the rankness of the room pressed close around him. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
I love thee, Elizabeth, thy petaled rankness, thy priceless casket of nothing lined with slippery buds. From Wordnik.com. [Cock-a-doodle-doo] Reference
I do not know of a better oil at present, as it is sweet and without the slightest suspicion of rankness. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference
He'd left the truck at the house, unwilling to subject his wife to its rankness, rattles, and rough ride. From Wordnik.com. [Texas! Lucky]
Instead of the freshness Conan usually associated with greenery, a heavy atmosphere of rankness lay about them. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
Broccoli will take to it kindly, and all the rankness will be gone long before they produce their creamy heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
It has in truth a lustrous luminosity not often to be met with, added to a total absence of rankness or harshness. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
But Mr. Bensington, reading between the lines saw in this rankness of growth the attainment of his long sought goal. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference
Potatoes used in making "potato ferment" are often of a very inferior quality, and impart their rankness to the bread. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast Dainties] Reference
She slid back the roof of the cockpit once again, her nose wrinkling at the rankness of the dripping morass encircling them. From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
More recently the blossom has revealed its pestilential rankness so plainly that no one can be deceived as to its noxious effect. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
While the rankness of new elements in a new era had not penetrated our homes, it had begun to make itself manifest in public places. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Not but what there was more or less rankness in the crowd even then. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
Ideally, of course, weeds should never reach this state of sportive rankness. From Wordnik.com. [More Jonathan Papers] Reference
It may happen that we pull up flowers with weeds; but better this than rankness. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
And the rankness of the growth of this evil is not more startling than its rapidity. From Wordnik.com. [Public School Education] Reference
All sorts of ugly weeds grow most luxuriantly out of the grave in poisonous rankness. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
The very rankness of the smell of manure in the clear sweet air awoke something heady in his brain. From Wordnik.com. [Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life] Reference
Everywhere had clinging weeds grown to rankness; everywhere one found one's feet entangled among bindweed and other vegetation of the sort. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
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