Leavings of dog's flesh, putrid and unsaleable, flung to us by the mocking butchers; MINARI, a water-cress gathered from stagnant pools of slime; spoiled KIMCHI that would revolt the stomachs of peasants and that could be smelled a mile. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dede, who had a fondness for cattails, established a fringe of them along the meadow stream, where they were left to fight it out with the water-cress. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And when the latter was threatened with extinction, Daylight developed one of the shaded springs into his water-cress garden and declared war upon any invading cattail. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A little spring, discovered by the architect in digging the foundations of the wall, trickles down the hillside over silvery sand to the lake, between two banks of water-cress, hugging the edge of the woods. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The banks of the winding creek were beautified with the malaguetta pepper, the ipomsea, the hibiscus, and a yellow flower growing upon an aquatic plant like a magnified water-cress. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Such berries, such lettuce, such water-cress, and the radishes! ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
Satisfied with the results attained in exterminating algal growth in water-cress beds, attention was next given to reservoirs. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)
A spring bubbled not far away and the music of the tiny creek that trickled from it through a bed of water-cress provided a pleasing lullaby. ❋ Hopkins Moorhouse (N/A)
One of this description, _Spirogyra_, has done thousands of dollars 'worth of damage by smothering the life out of young water-cress plants in artificial beds constructed for winter propagation. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)
The ordinary "mustard and cress" of our salads is good for rheumatic patients, while the water-cress is valuable in cases of tubercular disease. ❋ Florence Daniel (N/A)
Mr. Gibbon had made himself a neat sandwich of water-cress and thin bread-and-butter. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
Bert and Harry had also been out gathering for breakfast, and returned now with a basket of lovely fresh water-cress. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
[497] The scholiast explains that water-cress robs all plants that grow in its vicinity of their moisture and that they consequently soon wither and die. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
St. Helena, scurvy appeared amongst the troops, necessitating lime-juice being given in larger quantities, but what proved a more effectual remedy was water-cress, many sacks of which were laid in before we left the island. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
Tea with thick bread-and-butter, dry toast, water-cress, little dishes of sliced ham, and pastry-tarts made in Emily's best fashion; and Bessie and ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
Have at hand some small tomato molds which have been rather thickly lined with tomato aspic, fill them with the sardine mixture and leave on ice until the jellies can be unmolded; serve each on a small leaf of lettuce, and surround with a salad of water-cress and sliced tomatoes. ❋ L. O. Kleber (N/A)
"I hate Bessie," Franky said; but he was used to having his face slapped by his elder sister, and went on munching his bread-and-butter and water-cress, not much the worse. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
Add a very little chopped leeks or onion, pour some sauce, "Lombarda" (see Sauces, page 31), over the salad, and garnish with water-cress. ❋ Antonia Isola (N/A)
Water-celery and water-cress are perhaps the best food-producing marginal plants that can be grown. ❋ Charles Edward Walker (N/A)
The water was so clear that you could see the sand and gravel at the bottom, and in it there grew plenty of water-cress. ❋ Various (N/A)
