How To Use Vetch In A Sentence
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The roadsides sparkled with coreopsis, crimson clover, vetch, spring beauties, and other gem-like blooms.
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And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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Elle, whoever you are (who are you?) you certainly are a kvetcher and a complainer.
Scripting News for 8/24/2006 « Scripting News Annex
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Just think, if the people who are now kvetching about freedom of speech simply posted their names on the website, then none of the speculation would have happened.
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Here we found a small quantity of the little pea-vetch, which is such excellent food for the camels.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
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Sometimes, instead of a multi-year hayfield, Moyer will just use hairy vetch or a vetch / oats mix as a cover crop between the summer wheat harvest and corn planting the following spring.
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Or, Pouring Ketchup On An Over-cooked Campaign, or Ketchup Money to Help Campaign Catch Up, or some sort of bad pun involving Ketchup, money and catch up bonus points if you can also work "kvetch" into the pun*:Unlike Dean and Bush, Kerry said he will put his own money into the campaign, becoming the first Democrat in at least 20 years to do so.
November 2003 ~ Angry Bear
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Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch.
Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
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Caragana korshinski, salix psammophila and sweat vetch hedysarumi are three good sand shrubs for resisting wind, protecting water and soil, improving ecosystem.
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He kvetched and annoyed his way out of the game, voted out because no one could stand to be around him a moment longer.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild!
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Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch.
Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
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The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart's-ease.
A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I
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It is home to hundreds of species of wildflowers and grasses - including the tansy, meadowsweet, poppy, vetch and marigold - a host of butterflies, insects and beetles, and birds of prey such as the owl and kestrel.
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Europeans, and it is certainly grand and interesting and in a certain sense beautiful, but not the calm, sweet, warm beauty of our own fields, and there is none of the brightness of our own flowers; a field of buttercups, a hill of gorse or of heather, a bank of foxgloves and a hedge of wild roses and purple vetches surpass in _beauty_ anything I have ever seen in the tropics.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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My one kvetch was that not enough music was played from the Train A Comin’ album.
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For example, I did a dish of shirttail grouse with farro, sunflower seeds, malt vinegar, vetch flowers and a rose hip glaze -- the grouse we'd shot had been gorging on vetch and rose hips, so it seemed appropriate.
Stephanie J. Stiavetti: An Interview With Hank Shaw, the Hunter/Angler/Gardener/Cook
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Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them.
Clover
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I ` m calling her Foxy the fetcher, and I calling my mother Mom the kvetcher.
CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2008
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I don't like the idea of stiffnecked government officials deciding what we can and can't read -- and when you ban a site like Kynhun (an e-group that discussed the petty corruption of petty officials in Meghalaya as well as the possibility of seceding from the Indian union), you create a genuine grievance out of a minor kvetch.
Archive 2004-06-01
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Could our laundry listing kvetcher be bitchin about how Virginia is now becoming as culturally diverse as a cosmopolitan city like DC?
House of Delegates Preview- Part 1
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She wriggled and kvetched, though she seemed happier in the Next Gen ep before that.
Committee meetings
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They planted two legume cover crops - Lana vetch and Clay Iron cowpeas.
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A Woody Allen-type nebbish, Lenny is a kvetcher ( "My mind was full of sickening Jewish worry, the pogrom within and the pogrom without"); he frets about his age, his baldness and, in a major way, his parents.
Down and Out In Gotham
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Annual cover crops such as vetch, triticale, rye, winter wheat or Austrian winter peas should be sown in mid-September.
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Or else, well-fermented maslin, that is, provender formed of a mixture of various substances: grain, beans, vetches, hay, and salt. winnowed -- not as it is usually given to cattle before it is separated from the chaff; the grain shall be so abundant that it shall be given winnowed. shovel -- by which the grain was thrown up in the wind to separate it from the chaff. fan -- an instrument for winnowing.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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After you prepare a seed bed in your future tomato plot, plant the vetch, either by broadcasting or in shallow furrows at the rate of an ounce of seed per 10 square feet.
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In spring you kill the vetch by simply cutting it close to the ground, and then lay it in place on the beds.
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Annual cover crops such as vetch, triticale, rye, winter wheat or Austrian winter peas should be sown in mid-September.
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If you've ever kvetched about the way your state's late primary ends up being largely irrelevant year in and year out, and have suspected that the media had a large hand in that, congratulations!
An Insider's Guide To 'How The Presidential Primary Process Actually Works'
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The staple diet of maple peas, tic beans and vetches slowly grows to incorporate red rape, black rape, dari, linseed and mung beans.
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Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill, bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.
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The clianthus pea and the vetch pea they ate ravenously, and when they can get those they require very little water.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
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Zoole, a hopeless kvetch, has good reason to complain.
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The judge said Vetch had abused the trust of those who had given him a free hand to run their financial affairs.
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Large amounts of nitrogen are gathered by leguminous crops; cowpeas, vetch, beggarweed, velvet beans, alfalfa and others may be planted to advantage, resulting in a great saving in fertilizer bills, and besides, adding the necessary vegetable matter and humus.
The Pecan and its Culture
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Or, Pouring Ketchup On An Over-cooked Campaign, or Ketchup Money to Help Campaign Catch Up, or some sort of bad pun involving Ketchup, money and catch up bonus points if you can also work "kvetch" into the pun*:Unlike Dean and Bush, Kerry said he will put his own money into the campaign, becoming the first Democrat in at least 20 years to do so.
November 2003 ~ Angry Bear
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Ahead of him was a patch of bright green turf, sparkling with moisture and starred with yellow vetch.
SACRAMENT
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Try phacelia, sweet clover or vetches, to name but a few.
Times, Sunday Times
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You skin laser treatment brightly be in my clothier, my frisbee and i introspection burp all the coreferential bolshy i vetchworm with you.
Rational Review
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Over 160 different vascular plants have been recorded at Winskill Stones including noteworthy species such as spring sandwort, horseshoe vetch, meadow saxifrage, mossy saxifrage, mountain everlasting and moonwort.
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I call it a good excuse for geeky types to get together and kvetch.
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Buckwheat, mustard, rape, or fast-growing legumes, such as vetches or crimson clover, can be used.
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In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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It once said on the kvetcher that he hates all jews.
Tainted Love Child: The Baal Teshuvah’s Status as a Ben Niddah in the Haredi World | Jewschool
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The crossbred Welsh and Suffolk flock feeds on wild herbs and grasses, clover, yarrow and vetch on land owned by the National Trust and designated of Special Scientific Interest.
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This year we no-till planted corn and pumpkins into hairy vetch, and soybeans into a variety of grains, with rye working the best.
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We found it quite quickly, a patch of grass with yellow gorse bushes dotted here and there around, blue vetch and clover, bright red Herb Robert.
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My father came in soon after, and when he heard so much of the story as I had told Mistress Pennyquick he drew his fingers through his beard and said in his quiet way: "To be sure, barrels were not made for that kind of vetch!
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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At first its banks are lined with campion, vetch, roses, bulrushes and meadowsweet and later with poplar trees heavy with overhanging mistletoe.
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Everybody is a wiseacre, a kvetcher, or working an angle, sometimes all three.
CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2006
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Then plant vetch seed, either in furrows or by broadcasting.
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Clusters of bluebells sway in the breeze, and here and there you spot dark pink dots of vetch.
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He's kvetching about how all his work for the Irish Republic has earned him only ‘the daily spite of this unmannerly town’ and Maud Gonne reproves him.
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Some of the primary plants for butterfly larvae include: aspen, alfalfa, clover, nettle, pearly everlasting, milkweed, grasses, hackberry, parsley, vetch, and willow.
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The vetches and vetchlings are native to temperate areas in both hemispheres and their range even extends into mountainous parts of Africa.
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I stand to the side, watching, listening to him kvetch about my lack of proper kitchen equipment.
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And the rest of tired of the same old''s kvetch is due to the past 8 years of bad leadership on 1600 Penn.
House of Delegates Preview- Part 1
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Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . .
The Return
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Though the New York Post and Daily News once a year routinely call for the abolition of this 179-year-old office (with periodic name changes) - and mayors, too, have predictably kvetched about an office that's mandated to be the watchdog over City Hall-there's no public support for ending something that keeps the bureaucracy on its toes.
Mark Green: Changing the NYC City Charter. Again?
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I was a real kvetch, and I wanted to be involved every step of the way.
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Swedes, manigolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne(alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets.
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Sheep are fattened by twigs of the olive or of the oleaster, by vetch, and bran of every kind; and these articles of food fatten all the more if they be first sprinkled with brine.
The History of Animals
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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I have a kvetch about my meal being cooked in the body fat of a dead animal.
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Among the profusion of flowers you can find scabious, the bedstraws, vetches, ragwort,
Lessons on Soil
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To the so-called experts on the Yiddish word "kvetch": The "k" is not silent, but maybe you should be.
Daily Tar Heel RSS
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The play concerns the antics of eight dedicated baseball bleacherites at Wrigley Field, who spend the eternal afternoons in God's sun, betting, kibitzing, and kvetching about the action on the field.
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Cattle feed on corn and grass, and fatten on vegetables that tend to cause flatulency, such as bitter vetch or bruised beans or bean-stalks.
The History of Animals
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Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . .
The Return
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Now, in its place, I have a vast area of some kind of creeping yellow vetch which is green compared to the grass and covered in little flowers.
Getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
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They were restricted to open areas of bare sand with a little marram grass and scattered clumps of the caterpillars 'only known food plant, the yellowy reddish-blossomed kidney vetch.
Country diary: Nairn Dunes
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The plots were then overseeded with white mustard, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat, or a mix of oat and hairy vetch.
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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For the Latins call a vetch Cicer, and a nick or dent at the tip of his nose, which resembled the opening in a vetch, gave him the surname of
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Early next month, before temperatures drop too much, seed cover crops such as clover, peas or vetch to enrich the soil.
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This may be a result of a decline in some of their food plants (vetches, vetchlings and clovers).
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In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird's foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift.
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To make the guest list, invitees would have to possess the ability to grumble, rant, complain, gripe, fuss, snarl, groan, scream and kvetch - preferably all at the same time.
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At exchange operator Direct Edge, Chief Executive William O ' Brien decided to give all employees one floating holiday to use in 2011 after spokesman Rafi Reguer " kvetched " about the situation.
Vacation Takes a Holiday: Calendar Quirk Puts Traders to Work
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The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart’s-ease.
A Sportsman's Sketches
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Vetch was already ducking under Kashet's chest to undo the bellyband when Ari's words made him blink.
Joust
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Her attention was caught by something in the tangled vetch leaves by the path leading to the door.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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For the Latins call a vetch Cicer, and a nick or dent at the tip of his nose, which resembled the opening in a vetch, gave him the surname of Cicero.
Cicero
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My vetch and oat cover crops look like they'll make it into the winter with sufficient growth to survive the cold.
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Laura picked a bouquet of flowers in the hedgerows, some hedge parsley, vetch, goosegrass, and pale pink dog roses, already in bloom.
A Hopeless Romantic
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I will say that just about every Australian we met there was polite, friendly, and helpful, and while I may have kvetched a bit about the food prices, I think we got great value for our money and time.
2008 October « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
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However, many Yiddish words have entered mainstream English, mainly, but not exclusively, in the United States - "shlep" (to carry or drag a load), "chutzpah" (audacity), "kvetch" (to whine, complain), "nebbish" (a simpleton, a weakling) being just a few.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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It takes its name from the Yiddish word "kvetch," which means to complain or nag.
JustNews.com - Local News
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And being a serious Sinatra collector myself I prefer to be called a completist, others prefer "nerd", I'm usually one of the louder voices in the chorus of kvetchers.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The coffee tasted of bitter vetch; Seaton allowed it to get cold.
FAIRYLAND
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A number of notable plant species are present including meadow oat, upright brome, greater knapweed, woolly thistle, slender tare, pyramidal orchid, wild thyme, large thyme and grass vetchling.
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They're not going to kvetch to Larry for a long, long time, Emerald decided.
YELLOW BIRD
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In the woody part of the island grows a vetch, that is green all the winter, and a great support for horses and cattle, though it is to be feared the hogs will root it all up.
The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
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Cicero, who was so called from the founder of his family, that was marked on the nose with a little wen like a vetch, which is _Cicer_ in Latin, instead of Marcus
Essays and Tales
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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.
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As Murray Trachtenberg was preparing to exit the courtroom our Counsel Anders Bruun jocularly said, "It's far from over Murray" to which the prolific, production line, serial kvetcher Mr. Trachtenberg replied, "It does not behoove you as counsel to make threats to me as I am leaving the courtroom.
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader
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Citizens of other places may complain, bitch or bellyache; New Yorkers kvetch.
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As if he knew that excuse fell on deeply offended ears, Father Francis Gower had added, in a complaining tone that brought to my mind the Yiddish word kvetch, My old bones couldn’t stand the weather, anyway.
I. O. U.
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However, if you feel the need to kvetch, why not follow @kvetch and direct message your complaints?
Archive 2008-11-01
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February, and then often sow 'teff,' but more frequently a kind of vetch or pea, called Shimbra; these are cut down before the first rains, which are in April; yet with all the advantages of a triple harvest, which requires neither manure nor any expensive processes, the farmer in Abyssinia is always very poor.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
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And I don't want to seem like a kvetch, but where's the dessert?
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Some of the primary plants for butterfly larvae include: aspen, alfalfa, clover, nettle, pearly everlasting, milkweed, grasses, hackberry, parsley, vetch, and willow.
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He has been evaluating 53 accessions of hairy vetch in the USDA germ plasm collection to identify plants useful as parental material.
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Now red and white clover, medick and vetches flower throughout the summer, shedding a bank of seeds in autumn.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he seems amazed that people see him as a kvetcher.
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition*
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Without the historical fantasy, what's left is one long, pretentious kvetch, larded with hokum about forgiveness and redemption, that some men are geniuses and others are not.
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Ditto for such long-suffering conservative entertainers as actress Janine Turner, who kvetched that at one point she thought she would be fired from Friday Night Lights -- that commie TV show about Texas high school football -- because of her politics.
Michael Sigman: Gratitude In A World Of Sin And Sorrow
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This year I'm using winter tares - a winter hardy vetch which will fix nitrogen and provide good protection, but in the past I've also used clovers, buckwheat, phacelia and grazing rye.
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They're not going to kvetch to Larry for a long, long time, Emerald decided.
YELLOW BIRD
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For almost four years now, plaintiff and her attorneys have been subjected to the constant kvetching by defendants' counsel, who have made a big tsimmes about the quantity and quality of plaintiff's responses to discovery requests.
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They are looking currently for high protein hay, and that would be lucerne, vetch and clover hay and those stocks are dwindling.
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In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Buckwheat, mustard, rape, or fast-growing legumes, such as vetches or crimson clover, can be used.
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During oviposition period, the male and female OAMs displayed certain tropism to the flowering rape and the milk vetch, the female OAMs performanced intense behavior of oviposition.
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The areas often support many rare or uncommon species such as northern brown argus butterflies and wood bitter vetch.
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Wait a bit," said the acuter intelligence of Jemmy Vetch.
For the term of his natural life
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The plots were then overseeded with white mustard, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat, or a mix of oat and hairy vetch.
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Right after this thing kicks in, they're going to unveil a "frequent kvetcher" plan, where you can not only get your minutes at a discounted rate, but you can earn valuable "prizes" like leftover "Call 3-1-1" refrigerator magnets and dead "Million Trees" seedlings.
How Does the City Stop Activists? Price Them Out of Existence!
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Once you get your eye tuned in to seeing the flowers in a sea of waving long grass, though, it is not too hard to spot little groups of these flowering vetchlings here and there.
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Some pasture quenches milk, as Median grass or lucerne, and that especially in ruminants; other feeding renders it copious, as cytisus and vetch; only, by the way, cytisus in flower is not recommended, as it has burning properties, and vetch is not good for pregnant kine, as it causes increased difficulty in parturition.
The History of Animals
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Forget-me-nots, bachelor buttons, vetch, lantana, farewell-to-spring and buttercups exploded in wide brushstrokes, coloring the high hillsides.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Yep, I sent you 2 photos – the other a sand lily – and said this one looked kind of vetchy.
Oxytropis sericea - The Panda's Thumb
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Coincidentally, he'd been kvetching to me about the lack of masquerade balls, just before I found out that there was going to be one.
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Ergotism from eating bread made with ergotized wheat is now rare, but _pellagra_ from the consumption of mouldy maize, and _lathyrism_, due to the admixture with flour of the seeds of certain kinds of vetch, are still common in Southern Europe.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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He tells us how to employ cliché—with a twist, he suggests, as in the micro-memoir "I came, I saw, I kvetched.
The Soul of Brevity
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Sure enough, at the end of his workday he is a kvetch who goads a black youngster into reaching for a gun and shoots him dead.
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This year I'm using winter tares - a winter hardy vetch which will fix nitrogen and provide good protection, but in the past I've also used clovers, buckwheat, phacelia and grazing rye.
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Irving performed with a bassist, a bongo player and a "percussionist" who mostly just banged a couple of drumsticks together, but hey, who were we to kvetch?
Tony Sachs: Let Us Rejoice (And Rock Out): The Jews On Vinyl Revue
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Like a tiny pink lupin with vetch-like pinnate leaves, this pea relative is said to have been introduced from France, where it was called "St Foyn" in the 17th century.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Field pea, lentil, and blue vetchling were also present.
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Some refer to us by using the Yiddish word "kvetch," which translates as "a whining complainer.
Michael Simmons: One Jew's Views
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SM goes on to commiserate with Gunn over the pneumonia he had mentioned he was recovering from, gives him some doctorly admonishments to rest up and kvetches about his own ailments.
Archive 2009-07-01
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A big bonus is that the weeds - such as stitchwort, clover, meadow vetchling, tormentils and field scabious - are a positive delight in this patch.
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Thus every day, on my blog, these strangers show up, just to shoot the breeze, flirt, kvetch, veer off topic and, most of all, pay zero attention to what I have written.
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The husband-and-wife screenwriting team of Irving Ravetch, who has died aged 89, and Harriet Frank Jr specialised in adapting the work of writers as varied as William Faulkner, Larry McMurtry and Elmore Leonard.
Irving Ravetch obituary
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Plant vetch and winter rye as a cover crop on bare soil and protect remaining produce with row cover as October frosts approach.
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In Trading Hearts the veil of intimacy is lifted and the audience invited into the heart of a relationship to share the moments - the thoughts, the kvetches, and the fleeting heartbeats of bliss, the fights and the sex.
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Their curiosity got the better of them when they noticed that, unlike other crops, plants in the legume family - beans, peas, alfalfa, lupines, vetch - thrived even in nitrogen-deficient soils.
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For centuries, the Chinese have used astragalus, or milk vetch root, to treat ailments by strengthening the body's natural defenses.
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Leguminous plants such as clover, vetch and lucern are green fodder which. when harvested in due season, provide cattle with the vitamins and proteins necessary for them to achieve full production capacity.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 - Presentation Speech
