10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLOETHORN»
Discover the use of
sloethorn in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sloethorn and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape
... juniper or gorse – see Chapter 12) and ash bark and so forth could also be
boiled in water for theor (?bronchial trouble); holly bark taken in goat's milk for a
tight chest; sloethorn bark boiled and added to wheat grains and honey as a bath
for ...
Take oak bark and the inner bark of sloethorn root. Dry, work to a powder. It is
good to sprinkle on the wound. '56 The similar one in Bald's Leechbook reads: '
Again, a good wound salve: oak bark, dry the bark and pound it very fine and dig
up ...
Malcolm Laurence Cameron, 1993
3
A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country ...
... And many a pair unhoused hovering lament The barbarous devastation : all is
smoothed, Save here and there a tree; the hawthorn, briar, The hazel bush, the
bramble, and the broom, The sloethorn, scotias, myrtle, all are gone; And on the ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1806
4
The Art of Fishing: A Poem
The hare lugs from the sloethorn flies, Illustrious parents ! claim their rise, To
trouts a fatal breed : And with the alder fly come on, Somewhat before kind April's
moon, And on the sloethorn feed. The dark brown next in course appears, Nor ...
5
The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany
Trunks of old trees, Ayton Moor; Sloethorn Park; near Castleton. Ramalina
calicaris, var. framinea, Fries. ' E. Bot. 1781. Common on the trunks of trees,
Ayton, &c. Ramalina calicaris, var. fastigiata, Fries. E. Bot. 890. Trunks of trees,
frequent; ...
George Luxford, Edward Newman, 1856
6
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England: ...
Work up a fomentation for that ilk; take aspen rind, and myrtle rind, quickbeam
rind, sloethorn rind, birch rind; pound all the rinds together, boil them in cheese
Whey, wash therewith and foment the limb on which the wound is, and after the ...
Thomas Oswald Cockayne, 1865
7
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... short his pace—Maintaining still, from side to side, a race— Now pulling up into
a “ hiccup” sudden— Then dashing forward, all his length the mud in, Cursing, in
broken syllables, his hap— Then 'gainst the sloethorn hedgeway falling slap.
8
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry [William Carleton]
I dunna is it true, as I hear Captain Sloethorn's steward say, that the
Englishwomen are so fond of Irishmen ?” “ To be sure, it is,” said Shane Fadh; “
don't I remember, myself, when Mr. Fowler went to England—and he as fine-
lookingayoung ...
9
The betrothed. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series)
After passing the river, the wild greensward path which they pursued began to
wind upward among small eminences, sometimes bare and craggy, sometimes
overgrown with hazel, sloethorn, and other dwarf shrubs, and THE BETROTHED.
T-he scarcity os slonesr here, sor filling up drains, occasions that necessary
operation onx wet land to be both diflicult and expenfive. ln the park at Woburn,
drains had been made and filled with sloethorn and cuttings of hedges, twenty
years ...
