Cresses

Wright's basket, folks 'ull buy, for they know as my cresses and oranges ain't to be beat in Liverpool. " ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

Rashid would be = garden-cresses or stones: Rashíd the heaven-directed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Water-cresses, perhaps; or perhaps water-gruel, and water-milk; too many land-babies do so likewise. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Tibbs sat down at the bottom of the table, and began eating water – cresses like a Nebuchadnezzar. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Threatened plant species currently being protected or monitored include the endemic saltpan cresses (Lepidium kirkii and L. sisymbrioides matau), the upland shrub Hebe cupressoides, the endangered Hector's tree daisy (Olearia hectorii), native Peraxilla mistletoes, and the epiphytic forest shrub Tupeia antarctica. ❋ Unknown (2007)

‘It seems to me just possible,’ said Arthur, when he had retraced the conversation to the water – cresses and back again, ❋ Unknown (2007)

Young John was some time absent, and, when he came back, showed that he had been outside by bringing with him fresh butter in a cabbage leaf, some thin slices of boiled ham in another cabbage leaf, and a little basket of water – cresses and salad herbs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And there was George (who has taken to the water-doctrine, as all the world knows) handing some teetotal cresses over a plank to the table where the pledge was being administered. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There were cresses, horseradish, turnips, and lastly, little branching hairy stalks, scarcely more than three feet high, which produced brownish grains. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The hazel-boughs took me too hard in the face, and the tall dog-briers got hold of me, and the ache of my back was like crimping a fish; till I longed to give up, thoroughly beaten, and lie there and die in the cresses. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

There were others resembling parsley, and having the taste of water-cresses with white turnip-like roots. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It fell into a hollow as large as a washing basin which it had worn in the stone; then, falling in a cascade, hardly two feet high, it trickled across the footpath which it had carpeted with cresses, and was lost among the briers and grass on the raised shelf where the boulders were piled. ❋ Unknown (2003)