darnel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of darnel
1275–1325; Middle English; compare French (Walloon) darnelle, probably < Germanic
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I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast, Before he’ll buy again at such a rate: ’Twas full of darnel: do you like the taste?”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Had the gods loved me I had lain Where darnel is, and thorn, And the wild night-bird's nightlong strain Trembles in boughs forlorn.
From The Listeners and Other Poems by Walter De la Mare
Nor darnel these, nor wolf's-tail grass infests; From core and leaf we pick the insect pests, And pick we those that eat the joints and roots:— So do we guard from harm the growing fruits.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
Had the gods loved me I had lain Where darnel is, and thorn, And the wild night-bird's nightlong strain Trembles in boughs forlorn.
From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by Walter De la Mare
Yet for one that honestly essayeth to sow that which he would reap, an hundred shall sow darnel and look confidently to reap fine wheat.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
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