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"Watercress" Quotes from Famous Books

... which the useful plants which the emperor desired should be cultivated in his domains are detailed, shows us that at that period the greater part of our cooking vegetables were in use, for we find mentioned in it, fennel, garlic, parsley, shallot, onions, watercress, endive, lettuce, beetroot, cabbage, leeks, carrots, artichokes; besides long-beans, broad-beans, peas or Italian vetches, ...

— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix

... them a little. The watercress was arranged in a hedge round a fat glass salt-cellar, a tasteful device they had never seen before. But it was not a ...

— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit

... he would hear a murmuring sound as of distant sea waves. Yet, mark you, I held bravely out, fighting still the good fight. This, then, was my dinner, if such it might in truth be called: Clear soup, a smallish slice of rare roast beef cut shaving thin, gluten bread sparsely buttered, a cloud of watercress no larger than a man's hand, another raw apple and a bit of domestic cheese—nothing rich, nothing exotic, no melting French ...

— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb

Words linked to "Watercress" : Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum, Cardamine rotundifolia, yellow watercress, great yellowcress, common watercress, Brassicaceae, chromatic, mustard family, Cruciferae, Rorippa islandica, cress, family Brassicaceae, Nasturtium amphibium, American watercress, Rorippa amphibia, marsh cress, cresson, cress plant, Nasturtium officinale, family Cruciferae