Sentence examples for from a sprig of from inspiring English sources
The Orthodox priest sings an Easter prayer, blessing the animals as he flicks holy water from a sprig of basil.
A man with connections among the former international set got a letter the other day from a sprig of European royalty now in training with the United States Army.
By George B. George and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, July 10 , 1943 P. 13A man with connections among the former international set got a letter the other day from a sprig of European royalty now in training with the United States Army.
Flowers from a sprig of lavender.
A traditional bouquet garni is made from a sprig of parsley, thyme, marjoram and a bay leaf, all tied together.
(Her work ranges from $3,500 for a sprig of nectarine blossom to $40,000 for very large pieces).
Covered in blue body paint, with what looks like a shrunken head hanging from his neck and a sprig of a mohawk atop his head, the nearly naked Luigi speaks in effusive gibberish and glowers darkly, looking the perfect picture of the barbarous, untamed savage.
"I was brought up on a farm with a wonderful vegetable garden and was lucky enough to taste things at the very top of their game -- a carrot pulled from the ground and eaten with a sprig of tarragon, a newly dug beet bathed in horseradish vinaigrette," he says.
The olive branch that signified the end of the biblical flood, she suggests, could just as well have been a sprig of rhododendron from the densely covered peaks near Mount Ararat, and a John Wootton painting of a girl in a landscape of dark green, pink-flowered bushes might depict rhododendrons rather than roses, as is commonly believed.
In Haitian Voodoo practice the herb is a powerful protector, and a Romanian man is engaged when he accepts a sprig of basil from a woman.
LUCY BENNETT, a 26-year-old television producer in a cowl-neck tank top and pearl drop earrings, chewed on a sprig of mint garnish from her drink on a recent Friday night and declared, "This is a terrible place to meet someone".
