darnels

Every extension of noble liberty has been accompanied by some form of licence -- darnels which look very much like honest wheat.

The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels 1817-1893 1922

"If your wise doctor could say nothing more about the fool, who died like a rotten sheep among the darnels, his Latin might have held out for the father, and might have told people he was as cool as a cucumber at home, and as hot as pepper in battle.

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819