These, and the mulberry, are the most common; next are the bullace and damson. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The intermediate links of this connexion are the bullace, muscle, damacene, &c., of all which there are many varieties. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827] Reference
The finger bones had pointed to avatars, and it seemed to me the avatars had sown plants that I might find them now, and harvest what was needed: shiny evergreen leaves of the holm oak, barberries, five-leaf root, bullace branches, and tender feverfew leaves that had lingered into winter. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
The bullace ideal is in the individual bullace tree. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
There are nuts, too, here, and large sloes or wild bullace. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
As the bullace ideal is to the plum ideal, so is the ideal of. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
Rice milk, and hasty Stewed prunes, and Raisins.pudding. baked bullace. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
But the latter cannot be realised, or even approached, by the individual bullace tree. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
The plum ideal is the true nature of the plum, but is not the true nature of the bullace. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
The bullace ideal is realisable (under favourable conditions) by each individual bullace tree, -- but the plum ideal is not. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
"I mind Mrs Bosenna well," said Captain Cai, rising as the barber unwrapped him; "a smallish well-featured body, with eyes like bullace plums.". From Wordnik.com. [Hocken and Hunken] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
It produces numerous green egg-shaped fruits, an inch in length, possessing an agreeable vinous and somewhat aromatic flavor, called honey berries or bullace plums. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
A wild 'plum,' or bullace, grew in one place; the plum about twice the size of a sloe, with a bloom upon the skin like the cultivated fruit, but lacking its sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [Round About a Great Estate] Reference
Hereto nonpasserine as a mortgage broker loan favorableness circumferential of imponderable bourn and adoptee, musd inimitable southerner, grownup bullace and coeducational heyerdahl. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
But whereas the plum ideal cannot be realised in any appreciable degree by the individual bullace, the human ideal can be realised in a quite appreciable degree by the individual English rustic. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
Muscadines have acquired many commonly used names over the centuries, such as bull grape, bullace, bullets (all based on the fruit being the size of a bull's eye), muscadine, scuppernong, fox grapes, and many others too numerous to list here. From Wordnik.com. [Indybay newswire] Reference
Utopians would have lived and died undeveloped, having arrived at a maturity of a kind, the maturity of the bullace as distinguished from that of the plum, but having failed to realise in any appreciable degree what the Utopian experiment has proved to be their true nature. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
Then there were the bullace vines, in the woods beyond the tanyard! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Colonel's Dream] Reference
Nature delivered them to us in the full vigour of the thing untamed, when their value as food was indifferent, as to-day she offers us the sloe, the bullace, the blackberry, the crab; she gave them to us in the state of imperfect sketches, for us to fill out and complete; it was for our skill and our labour patiently to induce the nourishing pulp which was the earliest form of capital, whose interest is always increasing in the primordial bank of the tiller of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
An eye like -- like a bullace, John. From Wordnik.com. [Six Plays] Reference
Are pucker'd bullace, cankers (?), dry. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
95. bullace. From Wordnik.com. [The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390] Reference
Crex, the white bullace, 451. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
THE CRAB, the bullace, and the sloe. From Wordnik.com. [Songs from "Prince Lucifer." I. Grave-Digger's Song by Alfred Austin] Reference
Tak henbane, bullace, bummlekite, (3). From Wordnik.com. [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference
The first time you send a parcel or box, do not forget to enclose flower-seeds, and the stones of plums, damsons, bullace, pips of the best kinds of apples, in the orchard and garden, as apples may be raised here from seed, which will bear very good fruit without being grafted; the latter, however, are finer in size and flavour. From Wordnik.com. [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference
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