Sentence Examples

1. He had soaked hemlock leaves in water and drank it, and thought that was better than water in warm weather.
2. Jason stopped and pointed at an orange flag painted on a mighty hemlock tree.
3. Every part of the plant and its flowers, especially the un-ripened berry, was deadly as hemlock.
4. Forty years later, to the day, he succumbed to an apparent suicide, to a drink laced with hemlock.
5. Make an infusion of rhubarb leaves, hemlock, nightshade.
6. Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hill-top such as the black-birch, of which we have some handsome specimens two feet in diameter its cousin, the yellow birch, with its loose golden vest, perfumed like the first the beech, which has so neat a bole and beautifully lichen-painted, perfect in all its details, of which, excepting scattered specimens, I know but one small grove of sizable trees left in the township, supposed by some to have been planted by the pigeons that were once baited with beech nuts near by it is worth the while to see the silver grain sparkle when you split this wood the bass the hornbeam the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, of which we have but one well-grown some taller mast of a pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual, standing like a pagoda in the midst of the woods and many others I could mention.
7. I looked through the grate at the flicker of light on the corner of a newspaper, gliding across the paper, devouring the kindling, snapping through the sticks, and then roaring over the rounds of hemlock and alder.
8. And who better than a forest ranger to know the perils of hemlock, he added.