Sentence examples for drop of nectar from inspiring English sources

Tea, now there's a drop of nectar.

The screened porch had honeysuckle climbing on it, and in season honeysuckle itself was mildly diverting: you bit the end off, pulled the pistil down through the flower, and drank the one drop of nectar.

*** From "The Garlic Ballads" (2006) Gao Yang touched the drop of nectar with his tongue, and his taste buds were treated to a cool, sweet taste that relaxed him.

The real advantage of cold-pressing, he said, is that it pushes almost every drop of nectar out of the fiber, producing a drink dense with hue, tang and nutrients.

Legend has it that four drops of nectar spilled from the pot, near four blessed cities.

The carnivorous pitcher plant is nature's own honey trap, luring insects to their doom with drops of nectar and other enticements.

By inserting rods of different diameter into flowers, Darwin ascertained that pollen would only be transferred between moths and Angraecum orchids if the moths push the thickened base of their proboscis right up against the reproductive parts of the flower when they try to drain the last drops of nectar from the bottom of the nectar spur.

Nevertheless, amounts on seeds were probably comparable to what ants might obtain in a drop of extrafloral nectar, especially since our ethyl acetate extracts would have removed only a small proportion of the sugars present on the seed surface.

If the Dijon is too strong for your liking, add a few drops of agave nectar or a pinch of sugar to help cut the bite.

The myth that Lord Vishnu spilled drops of the nectar of immortality into the rivers at the four sacred sites is, he tells West, a 19th-century innovation, aimed at providing a religious justification for the Kumbh Mela to the British, who weren't keen on it.

The gods won — but during the ruckus, drops of the nectar spilled from the pitcher that was holding it, onto the four different locations which now host the festival.