cresses

Wright's basket, folks 'ull buy, for they know as my cresses and oranges ain't to be beat in Liverpool. "

A Girl of the People L. T. Meade 1884

The chef tops everything with a colorful bouquet of fresh asparagus tips, purple potato, butter cup lettuce, green beans and five types of cresses.

'Flower Pot,' at The Krug Room Amy Ma 2010

Aresa, a Denmark-based biotech company, had genetically modified thale-cresses and later tobacco to change color when their roots come in contact with a chemical released into the soil by decaying explosives.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Aresa, a Denmark-based biotech company, had genetically modified thale-cresses and later tobacco to change color when their roots come in contact with a chemical released into the soil by decaying explosives.

Genetically Modified Ordnance 2009

Rashid would be = garden-cresses or stones: Rashíd the heaven-directed.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I reached to the smallest plants, the tiny single-leaved cresses, the strands of algae that waited in the stagnant ponds at the side of the road.

Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

Water-cresses, perhaps; or perhaps water-gruel, and water-milk; too many land-babies do so likewise.

The Water Babies 2007

There was baked leg of mutton at the top, boiled leg of mutton at the bottom, pair of fowls and leg of pork in the middle; porter – pots at the corners; pepper, mustard, and vinegar in the centre; vegetables on the floor; and plum – pudding and apple – pie and tartlets without number: to say nothing of cheese, and celery, and water – cresses, and all that sort of thing.

Sketches by Boz 2007

Tibbs sat down at the bottom of the table, and began eating water – cresses like a Nebuchadnezzar.

Sketches by Boz 2007

They say that he spent two whole years in a cowshed, living on cresses and the milk of a cow brought from Switzerland, breathing as seldom as he could, and never speaking a word.

A Woman of Thirty 2007