Next morning she went out and gathered starwort and began to sew. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
Found here is the quite rare autumnal water starwort Callitriche hermaphroditica. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
In streams some of the best plants are water-crowfoot, water-starwort, and the great water moss. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
Aquatic plants common to limestone spring streams such as watercress and water-starwort provide cover for trout. From Wordnik.com. [On May 26 and 27, 2009, Trindle Spring Run (locally known as Silver Spring Run), located in a highly urbanized portion of Cumber] Reference
His old skin hung before him on the starwort, white-gleaming and transparent, a perfect, neatly folded model of himself. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
For six years thou mayst neither speak nor laugh, and in that time thou must sew together six little shirts of starwort for us. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
Instead of casing itself with tiny sticks and pebbles and sojourning at the bottom, as Nature ordained, it had put on a gaudy livery of starwort leaves. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
For days he had lain half-submerged on a mass of starwort, his limbs idly anchored off his body, his quaint, puckered face and goggle eyes fixed immovably on infinity. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
It was merely by chance that one, in its upward rush, hit his envelope of starwort; it was merely by chance that the envelope needed no greater stimulus to burst asunder. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
They were in a patch of sunlight, lazily browsing on the starwort, mild as any sheep, with foolish, staring eyes, gaping suckers, and bodies that gleamed as if sprinkled with gold dust. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
When she was occupied with the cares of a family, and spent her days and nights in deftly fashioning starwort cradles for her eggs, it was irritating that he, whose duty it was to frighten the marauding sticklebacks, should have preferred to rush away into the giddy vortex of newt society. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
The starwort, a great favorite with the Japanese, was met in abundance. From Wordnik.com. [Due West or Round the World in Ten Months] Reference
He gambolled along, smelling and rooting among the ragged robin and starwort in the hedges like an unbroken collie. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
For six years thou mayest neither speak nor laugh, and in that time thou must sew together six little shirts of starwort for us. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Swans] Reference
A little later, in the same copses, we have the blue wild hyacinth (Scilla nutans), the red campion (Lychnis dioica), the pure white great starwort. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Fleeing into the sanctuary of the forest, Sorcha begins an ardours labour of fashioning six shirts out of a nettle-like plant by the name of starwort. From Wordnik.com. [Bookspotcentral] Reference
It was only a big dock: but you know the dragon-fly had never seen any but little water-trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water-crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby] Reference
It was only a big dock: but you know the dragon-fly had never seen any but little water-trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water - crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies] Reference
Grass, milfoil, water crowfoot, hornwort, starwort, horsetail, and a dozen other delicate plants, form one tangled forest, denser than those of the Amazon, and more densely peopled likewise. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
When you walk among the scented pines, and the glinting sunbeams disclose in the modest seclusion of the tall grass the tiny starwort and the pretty veronica; when you go to meet the fresh wind blowing over a gorse-clad moor with step that bounds to the lark's mad carolling overhead, know that you have an enjoyment never to be had here. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
Water-starwort, 200. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
See "Water starwort.". From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Anemone, starwort, bands in white, 25. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Nightingale] Reference
Water-cress, water-celery, water-lobelia, starwort, and water-milfoil, are all good. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
Water-boatman, 10, 64 beetles, 11, 58-60, 63 bugs, 63-4 celery, 13 cress, 13 crowfoot, 13 flea, 12, 48 lilies, 13 lobelia, 13 louse, 65 scorpion, 64 starwort, 13. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
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