"Short-stemmed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... down the hillside on this particular spring day, calling and peering from side to side, his eye fell upon the first daisy of the season, nestling close at his feet,—a single blossom among a crowded group of little short-stemmed scrubby buds. He stooped to pick it, and was standing, lost in wonder over its frailty and its hardihood, when a child's voice struck his ear, calling, "Come ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... species closely resembles some forms of B. utricularis from which it differs chiefly in its unclustered smooth spores. B. foliicola as recognized here is hardly more than a smaller, short-stemmed form of this; see species ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
... lot to be on guard-duty with Tom Martin, an Irishman who was over forty-five and exempt from military service, but was soldiering for the love of it. Sometimes he was very taciturn and entirely absorbed with his short-stemmed pipe; at other times full of humor and entertaining. He gave me an account, one night while on post, of what he called his "great flank movement"—in other words, a visit to his home in Rockbridge without leave. After Doran, another Irishman, had been disabled at Malvern ...
— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore
... meeting any one. The garden is spacious, and contains all kinds of tropical productions: here I saw the sugar- cane, which greatly resembles the stem of the Indian maize; the cotton-tree, growing to a height of five or six feet; the banana- tree, the short-stemmed date-palm, the coffee-tree, and many others. Flowers were also there in quantities which must be cultivated with great care in the hot-houses of my native country. The whole of this collection of plants is very tastefully arranged, and shines forth in the height ...
— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer |
