"Watercress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a small box of sardines, chop fine 6 hard boiled yolks of eggs, a little chopped parsley, salt, pepper and a tablespoonful of butter, rub all to a paste and fill in the cavities of the white of eggs. Garnish with watercress. Serve cold. ...
— 365 Luncheon Dishes - A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year • Anonymous
... last of the fresh fish of yesterday's catch for Witlaf's household, and it was hotter than ever; and in all the orchards hung not one green apple, and even the hardy blackberry briers had no leaves or sign of blossom, and in the dikes the watercress was blackened and ...
— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler
... various sorts of vegetables and watercress—poor in quality, for the season was winter, and all of them uncooked. In the centre of this fodder—whether placed there in obedience to some religious tradition or by way of ornament, or perhaps to assist the digestive process of the god, as a tenpenny nail is said ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard
... lavender. To be sure, the blossoms never grew thickly enough to make strong dashes of color, but they tinted and stained the hillsides. He began to cross noisy little watercourses, empty most of the year, but now the melting snow fed them. From eddies and quiet pools the bright watercress streamed out into the currents, and now and then in moist ground under a sheltering bank he found ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand
... the opportunity of exploring the Ironice Mountains. Hearing they abound with frozen mud which would be most useful if it could be removed to the plains below without melting. The watercress plant too might be grown on the summit, if it is practicable to take up orchid-forcing houses. Ought to get the Gold Medal of the Geographical Society if I open out this region that will be fraught with such blessings ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, August 13, 1892 • Various |
