The original of all the cabbage tribe is the wild plant sea-colewort, which is to be found wasting whatever sweetness it may have on the desert air, on many of the cliffs of the south coast of England. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
For the space also of six hundred years the colewort only was. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
To secure the grain, they at one time disinterred an unbaptised infant, which, together with parings of their nails, ears of corn, and colewort leaves, they chopped and mixed together. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore? — and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
Close to the waterside a footpath led off downstream, and beside it the abbey's gardens lay neatly arrayed all along the rich plain, and three or four brothers were pricking out plants of cabbage and colewort. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower, brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses] Reference
For if it be said that there is enmity between the vine and colewort, because when planted near each other they do not thrive, the reason is obvious — that both of these plants are succulent and exhaust the ground, and thus one robs the other. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
I have a brother of my own, and I think no more of him than of a colewort. From Wordnik.com. [The Masters Wanderings] Reference
The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; i.e., the stalk of a colewort or cabbage. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
For the space also of six hundred years the colewort only was a medicine in Rome for all diseases, so that his virtues were thoroughly known in those parts. From Wordnik.com. [Of Gardens and Orchards. Chapter III. [1587, Book II., Chapter 20] Reference
The impoverished merchant, who may no longer look out for his argosies, may yet be in glee when he finds it "a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.". From Wordnik.com. [Deerbrook] Reference
The sun was sinking towards the horizon, bathing in a glow of light the green fields which were flecked here and there with golden colewort flowers or blood-red poppies, and over the quiet country fell an infinite peace. From Wordnik.com. [The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories] Reference
Naturalists observe that the colewort thrives better when it is watered with salt water than with fresh, so do some thrive better in the salt water of affliction; and shall we be discontented at that which makes us grow and fructify more?. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11] Reference
'colewort,' and refined in 'kail,' softens itself into the French 'chou,' meaning properly the whole family of thick-stalked eatable salads with spreading heads; but these being distinguished explicitly by Pliny as. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
Picks from the colewort a green caterpillar. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
"I heard tell likewise of a fresh colewort, from Cyprus in the East -- they call it broccoli or kale-flower. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
On colewort and on saxifrages!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914] Reference
Custock, the pith of the colewort. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
Runt, a cabbage or colewort stalk. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
Curled colewort 16 2 18 641 6 33 62. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Kail-runt, the stem of the colewort. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
Stock, a plant of cabbage; colewort. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
Kail-blade, the leaf of the colewort. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
Kail, kale, the colewort; cabbage; Scots broth. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
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