He decided to pick it as a centerpiece for his bouquet of marguerites, charlock and cornflowers. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy's Muslim Hero] Reference
I'd found a late patch of charlock near the stream, leaves wilting and brown around the edges, and had brought back a handful in my pocket, along with a few juniper berries picked during a stop earlier in the day. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Levels of charlock vary, with some hit hard by frosts. From Wordnik.com. [FWi - All News] Reference
Probably it is charlock, Sinapis arvensis, the mustard-plant. From Wordnik.com. [Playful Poems] Reference
Some were very variable, as for instance, the jointed charlock. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Ye mid zell my favorite heifer, ye mid let the charlock grow. From Wordnik.com. [Friends Beyond] Reference
One species of charlock will supplant another, and so in other cases. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
One species of charlock has been known to supplant another species; and so in other cases. From Wordnik.com. [III. Struggle for Existence. Struggle for Life Most Severe between Individuals and Varieties of the Same Species] Reference
And he went off into technicalities concerning the abundance of charlock on the arable land of Pym. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder] Reference
So, too, with charlock, and with hill sides purple with heath, or where the woodlands are azure with bluebells for a hundred yards together. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
The charlock seems late this year; it is generally up well before June -- the first flowers by the roadside or rickyard, in a waste dry corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
There are the seeds of the charlock and the thistle, and a hundred other little seeds, insects, and minute atom-like foods it needs a bird's eye to know. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
The Orderly jumped up and ran to the stove where, in one of the niches, stood the bowl of charlock hearts, a wild green that tastes exactly like tender sprouts. From Wordnik.com. [Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks] Reference
Be on the lookout for late flushes of annual broadleaved weeds such as cleavers, charlock and polygonums, as the recent rains and open crops are encouraging factors. From Wordnik.com. [FWi - All News] Reference
These are neglected while the seeds among the stubble, the charlock, and the autumn dandelion are plentiful and while the ears left by the gleaners may still be found. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Poacher] Reference
"I'm hungry, too, for some of the nice sweet charlock rookster that your cook makes me and I eats in the afternoon, right now. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis] Reference
A field of charlock in the sudden sun. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
2 ft. high, in appearance very similar to the corn mustard or charlock. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The flimy malic - waves her filky leaf) - O'er the young moot the charlock throws a tnade. From Wordnik.com. [The British Magazine and Review, Or, Universal Miscellany] Reference
Fox 's (bifenox) ability to give reasonable control of charlock when used in a programme for cranesbill. ". From Wordnik.com. [FWi - All News] Reference
Gold of the charlock, guerdon of the rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Drift of Pinions] Reference
O'er the young shoot the charlock throws a shade. From Wordnik.com. [English Men of Letters: Crabbe] Reference
Of charlock. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
An 'charlock patches, yollow-dyed. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
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