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  • It was made of a mixture of roots of zedoary similar to ginger, lovage and peony, parsnip seeds, mistletoe, myrrh, castor oil and dried millipedes steeped in mugwort tea and brandy. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
  • It wasn't that it grossed him out terribly, but he had heard so many mistletoe comments over the past week that he could barely contain himself.
  • Here are some things to keep in mind when the guy you want to catch under the mistletoe is more into keeping it strictly platonic.
  • 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. Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
  • They won't have bad breath under the mistletoe, at least. The Sun
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  • Thus new clumps of mistletoe form. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mistletoes that grow on the Ohau beeches can reach nine feet in both length and width and can virtually envelop a tree, but unlike their European and North American counterparts, they do not damage their hosts.
  • After that came the mistletoe to smear the blade, whose sticky sap would ensure free, unstaunchable bleeding ... and the great, thick-bladed steel knife with which to take the trophy skull ... Ripping Time
  • Unlike most plant parasites, the broom-forming dwarf mistletoes may considerably benefit a forest community by creating additional food resources and habitat for many animals.
  • Vomiting, diarrhea and lethargy are common signs when cats ingest plants such as amaryllis, mistletoe and holly. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed The Golden Bough
  • With a myriad of chain stores, unique boutiques and trendy clothes stores, you will have no problem securing a festive peck under the mistletoe this year.
  • I've already hung up the holly, bows, wreaths, and mistletoes around the house strategically.
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed "thunder-besom" is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
  • The other well-known xylem tapping parasites are the mistletoes.
  • I missed a snog under the mistletoe with him last year cos he was off holidaying somewhere.
  • Occasionally it can be attacked by leafy mistletoe, verticillium wilt, fungal diseases, stem borers, scale, and some rodents.
  • Following hot on the heels of the tree and mistletoe, holly is an essential element of Christmas imagery, turning up on cards, wrapping paper and on top of the Christmas pud.
  • THE world's largest sprig of mistletoe was unveiled at Heathrow this week. The Sun
  • Using a long hooked pole, he yanked down the mistletoe from the boughs of an old apple tree.
  • Six small insects depend on mistletoe: four bugs, a beetle and a tiny micro moth. Times, Sunday Times
  • The female form of mistletoe produces berries when it matures and is less vigorous. The Sun
  • In addition to the tui, another New Zealand species of honeyeater, known as the bellbird for its clear, bell-like call, commonly opens mistletoe flowers.
  • The mistletoe plant is a parasite on trees.
  • Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse’s stall or the cow’s crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
  • The leaves, with their regular branching, resemble those of mistletoe: this is still a common plant in the area.
  • In the West we have used our native holly, ivy and mistletoe rather than any other foliage plant or berried bush, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination in the form of a wreath or garland.
  • A remote-controlled quadcopter, outfitted with tinsel and mistletoe, paid a visit to Union Square, where unsuspecting San Franciscans and tourists were prompted to pucker up.
  • Using a long hooked pole, he yanked down the mistletoe from the boughs of an old apple tree.
  • Chris and Pat were kissing under the mistletoe at the office party.
  • People who put up pagan mistletoe at a Christian ceremony must expect orgiastic behaviour. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
  • Decorative plants such as holly, mistletoe and poinsettia are toxic to pets.
  • Unlike Spanish moss, mistletoe is a parasite that takes its food from the host tree.
  • Today saw the first of four weekly auctions, and five tons of holly and mistletoe were brought in by local farmers.
  • Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
  • They are getting the tinsel and mistletoe back out at Goodison Park this week. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was also responsible for linking the Druids to mistletoe, white robes, golden sickles, and herbal medicines, all of which are part of the popular perception of Druidism today.
  • Thus new clumps of mistletoe form. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once the festivities are over put the mistletoe berries in a plastic bag and keep in a cool place until February or March.
  • At first its banks are lined with campion, vetch, roses, bulrushes and meadowsweet and later with poplar trees heavy with overhanging mistletoe.
  • We have found some of the best developed epiphytic bromeliads with large showy flowers there, and at least two species of mistletoes. Peace and beauty - roaming the hills around Morelia
  • Eventually, dwarf mistletoe plants steal enough water, minerals, and nutrients to kill the ponderosa and lodgepole pines, Douglas-firs, western larches, and western hemlocks they attack.
  • The correct procedure is that a man should pick a berry each time he kisses a girl under the mistletoe, and the kissing should stop when the last berry is gone.
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed “thunder-besom” is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
  • The enigmatic graniferous tracheary inclusions which characterize so many terrestrial parasite haustoria are generally absent in aerial mistletoes.
  • After about 12 months the host mistletoe is usually either dead or severely weakened.
  • The mistletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched sense be said to struggle with these trees, for if too many of these parasites grow on the same tree, it will languish and die.
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed “thunder-besom” is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
  • Kissing under the mistletoe is a relatively recent custom, popularized in Victorian England.
  • For example, mistletoe grows on trees and supplements its nutrition by absorbing nutrients from the tree.
  • Mistletoe, however, was not tolerated by the church, for it was long associated with Druidic pagan rites, including links to human sacrifice.
  • House sparrows, black-capped chickadees, and blue grouse dine on mistletoe berries, while porcupines devour whatever plant parts they can reach.
  • Rich in all the bibliopolic "pearl and gold" of a quaint and fanciful binding, glancing with holly berries and mistletoe, Mr. Bogue presents us with a volume as interesting as it is characteristic and elegant, Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850
  • There is a troubling sprig of mistletoe in your hair, that you noticed only after showering. Times, Sunday Times
  • I may say, too, it furnished fowl and other creatures as dainties, in producing mistletoe for birdlime to ensnare them. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • Apparently the mistletoe fig is a slow grower, but I have time. Pixel-stained technopeasant wretch
  • Somehow Nicky kept finding mistletoes all around the house, so he had an excuse to kiss me.
  • This is prepared (H.) with proof spirit from the leaves and ripe berries of our Mistletoe in equal quantities, but it is difficult of manufacture owing to the viscidity of the sap. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Mistletoe had long been considered to have magic powers by Celtic and Teutonic peoples.
  • Since mistletoes have fruit during the winter, cultures have long associated them with fertility.
  • William fluttered around him, trying to pull the other boy to the mistletoe next to the windows.
  • Still, bees are probably not as important to these mistletoes as native honeyeaters are, because the bees enter far fewer flowers.
  • Thus new clumps of mistletoe form. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Druids, whose Stonehenge temples can be seen in England, regarded mistletoe with reverence and used to burn it in sacrifice during the solstitial festivities.
  • White lights entwined with silver ribbon draped the window sills, door frames, and banister, bunched with clusters of holly and mistletoe.
  • He eyed the mistletoe above her head and before she knew what was happening, Justin was kissing her passionately.
  • Occasionally it can be attacked by leafy mistletoe, verticillium wilt, fungal diseases, stem borers, scale, and some rodents.
  • THE world's largest sprig of mistletoe was unveiled at Heathrow this week. The Sun
  • The huge evergreen family includes botanicals such as European mistletoe, rosemary, cloves, allspice and holly, as well as conifers, including pines, cedars and cypress.
  • The Druids would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing.
  • What an unflattering contrast to the unclad natives who had dominated yet blended with the scene-the girl the prototype of a swaying palm, the boy that of a tough young bloodwood beside the creek, among the topmost branches of which a crimson-flowered mistletoe made a splash of colour in harmony with the single red feather from the wing of a black cockatoo which the soft-tongued youth had entangled in his hair. Tropic Days
  • The black oaks jostle and the mistletoe puts up its mitts to vie for the sweet-throated throstle where the black oaks jostle over a back fence and vie for the sweet-throated throstle, seeming no less tense over a back fence than the chestnuts dishing the dirt, seeming no less tense than so many introverts, than the chestnuts dishing the dirt down by the water cooler. The Best American Poetry 2008
  • But do not be deceived by the mistletoe and holly, the decadent displays of game and the delicious smells of roasting meat and spiced mulled wine. The Sun
  • The mistletoe usually ceases to produce nectar within the flower once it is opened, thereby encouraging birds to concentrate on opening new flowers rather than revisiting old ones.
  • Remember the following Norse fable the next time you sneak a smooch under the mistletoe: Frigga, goddess of love and beauty, wanted to make the world safe for her son, Balder. Thanks!
  • The huge evergreen family includes botanicals such as European mistletoe, rosemary, cloves, allspice and holly, as well as conifers, including pines, cedars and cypress.
  • So far it's been okay, I kiss Greg under the mistletoe when I get a chance.
  • Dwarf mistletoes have no leaves at all, just bud scales - the plants look like drab twigs.
  • It stems from Blavatzk'y theosophy, and underpins Steiner waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture and cosmetics Weleda, Dr Hauschka and anthroposophical medicine- "mistletoe cure for cancer" etc. On The Adoration of the Magi
  • Al concentrations in leaves of mistletoes parasitizing plants from the cerrado belt of Brazil depend on the nature of the host species.
  • The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burned. Christianity Today
  • In Somerset and Herefordshire mistletoe grows on the apple trees from which cedar is produced.
  • Here are the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde, her chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af liefest pose, arride the winnerful wonders off, the winner-ful wonnerful wanders off, 3 with hedges of ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe, are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you pleathes, 4 for the blithehaired daughter of Finnegans Wake
  • The foxglove, which is guilty of only sly, petty larceny, wears not the equivalent of the striped suit and the shaved head; nor does the mistletoe, which steals crude food from the tree, but still digests it itself, and is therefore only a dingy yellowish green. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
  • I learn from the notes on my copy of Aesop's Fables that the ancient Greeks caught birds with ixos (‘birdlime’), a sticky substance usually made from crushed mistletoe berries, or sometimes from oak-gum or similar.
  • Do you love mistletoe and mulled wine? Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus new clumps of mistletoe form. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. The Golden Bough
  • The mistletoe plant is a parasite on trees.
  • The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burned. Christianity Today
  • They won't have bad breath under the mistletoe, at least. The Sun
  • Most dwarf mistletoes grow on conifers in the western United States.
  • But you will never see mistletoe in a Christian church - it is banned because of its associations with pagan religion and superstition.
  • Some of the most popular berry-producing plants for bluebirds include blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, elderberry, bayberry, dogwood, juniper, Virginia creeper, sumac, pokeweed, mountain ash, and mistletoe.
  • He waved the Mistletoe three time widdershins around his head, said the sacred words and did the dance that only Witches and Druids know.
  • Eventually, dwarf mistletoe plants steal enough water, minerals, and nutrients to kill the ponderosa and lodgepole pines, Douglas-firs, western larches, and western hemlocks they attack.
  • The female form of mistletoe produces berries when it matures and is less vigorous. The Sun
  • Do you love mistletoe and mulled wine? Times, Sunday Times
  • Unless, that is, his motive was to supply the infantry with sprigs of mistletoe to give to their sweethearts at Christmas.
  • A bee that manages to jimmy open a mistletoe bud gets first access to an untapped store.
  • At the turn of the last century, botanists reported forests ablaze with the scarlet blooms of native mistletoes, but today few areas of New Zealand support profuse growth.
  • Kissing under the mistletoe is a remnant of the old fertility rites.
  • And … to celebrate this fine time, the StarShipSofa has decked herself out in holly, tinsel and mistletoe. 2008 December | StarShipSofa
  • Honeyeaters are the primary pollinators for native mistletoes and certain other nectar-producing plants.
  • It was a picture of her and Jordan, when they first kissed underneath the mistletoe.
  • There is a troubling sprig of mistletoe in your hair, that you noticed only after showering. Times, Sunday Times
  • I never knew that mistletoe was a parasitic plant that grew off a host tree.
  • Saint Fiacre IN HORTO after the papal blessing the happy pair were subjected to a playful crossfire of hazelnuts, beechmast, bayleaves, catkins of willow, ivytod, hollyberries, mistletoe sprigs and quicken shoots. Ulysses
  • Most wonderful of all, there are two brand new invasions of mistletoe in the rowan tree that overhangs the patio.
  • Key line: ‘A snowy, blowy Christmas, a mistletoey Christmas, a turkey lurkey Christmas to you!’
  • Six small insects depend on mistletoe: four bugs, a beetle and a tiny micro moth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Emetic herbs include bayberry, boneset, buckthorn, culver, false unicorn, lobelia, mandrake, mistletoe, mustard seed, pleurisy, quassia, rue and senega
  • The ancient Norse people have a wonderful legend centered on the mistletoe.

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