How To Use centaury In A Sentence
- A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle. Country diary: New Forest
- The leaves, stems, and flowers of centaury are used medicinally.
- Even in the really bright pink flowers such as rosebay willowherb, blue sneaks in to add a trace of purple as it does in wild thyme and centaury. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
- But these are very gentle; alyppus, dragon root, centaury, ditany, colutea, which Fuchsius cap. 168 and others take for senna, but most distinguish. Anatomy of Melancholy
- The fact that Israel has been under constant attack from anti-Semitic Muslim Arabs for over half a centaury is obviously seen by the BBC as well deserved. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Time is the most valuable things in the twenty first centaury no doubt. Traffic Jam is a cry in the wilderness to the government of Bangladesh
- There was a well in the centre with roses trained over it, roses of the dark old damask kind and the dainty musk, used to be distilled for the eyes, some flowers lingering still; there was the brown dittany or fraxinella, whose dried blossoms are phosphoric at night; delicate pink centaury, good for ague; purple mallows, good for wounds; leopard's bane with yellow blossoms; many and many more old and dear friends of Grisell, redolent of Wilton cloister and Sister Grisly Grisell
- I had a wonderful time, saw, pyramid orchids, spotted orchid, St. John's wort, kidney vetch, tufted vetch (I think), bladder campions (hadn't seen any for a long time) meadowsweet, bird's foot trefoil, hare's tail clover, silverweed and tormentils, sea bindweed, field poppies, greater knapweed, centaury, and what I think may be a kind of mullein.
- Mohammad is perfect- that requires them to believe the earth is flat, the sky is a bowl held up by pillers, etc (they do become competent engineers in spite of such unscientific Islamic beliefs) or believe Islamic medicine is infallible because Mohammad said black cumin cures every disease except death (and other 7 centaury medical knowledge had not prevented Muslims to become competent with western medicine.) Frank Talk, and Warnings, in a Saudi Desert - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
- Centaury varies a great deal according to) its situation, and some botanists enumerate several distinct species.
