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Example sentences for "charlock"

Lexicographically close words:
chark; charlatan; charlatanism; charlatanry; charlatans; charm; charmant; charmante; charme; charmed
  1. It was felt that as the future owner of Charlock House and inheritor of his mother's fortune Augustine was not to be tentatively taken up but decisively seized.

  2. She had been at Charlock House for many weeks, and it was mid-Autumn, when that horror came.

  3. Wallace was an Eton friend, a nice boy, who had sometimes stayed at Charlock House.

  4. The hall door at Charlock House, under a heavy portico, looked out upon a circular gravel drive bordered by shrubberies and enclosed by high walls; beyond the walls and gates was the high-road.

  5. And was Charlock House to be her very own?

  6. Her husband's magnanimity was the radiance that grew for Amabel during these black days, the days of hasty talks and of her journey down to Charlock House.

  7. The sycamores had grown so tall since she first came to live at Charlock House that the foliage made a high roof and only sparkling chinks of sky showed through.

  8. She crossed the road that, seen from Charlock House, was, with its bordering elm-trees, only a line of blotted blue.

  9. People had resented Sir Hugh's indifference to Charlock House, the fact that he had never lived there and had tried, just before his marriage, to sell it.

  10. In the normal run of rural conventions, Lady Channice should have held the place; but Charlock House no longer stood for what it had used to stand in the days of Sir Hugh Channice's forbears.

  11. One species of charlock has been known to supplant another species; and so in other cases.

  12. The difficulties of getting good seed—whether of trueness to sort, from carefully selected bulbs, or free from adulteration either of old with new seed, or a mixture of charlock and others of the same family—are very great.

  13. But, of course, samples of turnip-seed could not be tested as to freedom from charlock by this experiment, because charlock is killed before being mixed with the turnip.

  14. Charlock and Indian rape are all prepared for this purpose: that is to say, they are rendered incapable of germinating before mixture—“Dead men tell no tales.

  15. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

  16. Defn: Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.

  17. Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.

  18. In 1855, on the soil being dug in several places, Charlock (Brassica sinapistrum) sprang up freely.

  19. When the young corn is growing up (1) the bright yellow Charlock grows much more rapidly, and the whole cornfield is golden with it.

  20. The Charlock grows to some eighteen inches high, flowers, and sets its seed before it is suppressed by the growth of the cornstalks, which, of course, may be three or four feet or more in height.

  21. Billy with his charlock flowers reminds me of an incident on a farm in Hampshire where I was staying.

  22. Charlock is a most persistent cruciferous weed, but if sprayed when young with the solution named it is killed, the corn plants being uninjured.

  23. There are the seeds of the charlock and the thistle, and a hundred other little seeds, insects, and minute atom-like foods it needs a bird's eye to know.

  24. One of the commonest of these is the Wild Mustard or Charlock (Brassica arvensis or B.

  25. I cannot remember how many years you would allow that Charlock seed might live in the ground.

  26. Next time you write, show a bold face, and say in how many years, you think, Charlock seed would probably all be dead.

  27. Well, in some of those fields you'll have to fight the charlock all the time.

  28. You'll have to keep the charlock down, Jerrold, or it'll kill the crops.

  29. On the right the bright canary coloured charlock brimmed the field.

  30. Through the open window, from the fields of charlock warm in the risen sun, the faint, smooth scent came to them.

  31. There is more seed than blossom here to-day, for the flowering time for Charlock is in June.

  32. Pretty as the yellow blossoms of the Charlock are, it is one of the most troublesome weeds which the farmer has to fight.

  33. The yellow blossom of the Charlock is pretty, and the Poppy is the finest scarlet wild flower we have.

  34. It is no more welcome to the farmer than the Poppy and the Charlock are.

  35. Mr. Hammond tells me that some years ago this field was full of Charlock, and in the early summer there would be more Charlock than wheat to be seen.

  36. Then the Charlock sprang up before the crop of corn or turnips was sown; thus it could be rooted out.

  37. Beneath your feet lie many hundred thousand acres of green pastures, varied in colour during summer and autumn by golden wheatfields bright with yellow charlock and crimson poppies.

  38. The charlock brightens the landscape with its mass of colour among the turnips until the end of November, if the season be fairly mild.

  39. The charlock seems late this year; it is generally up well before June--the first flowers by the roadside or rickyard, in a waste dry corner.

  40. Such dry waste places send up plants to flower, such as charlock and poppy, quicker than happens in better soil, but they do not reach nearly the height or size.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charlock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.