Sentence examples for sweet herbs from inspiring English sources
HUGEL, RÉSERVE PERSONNELLE, JUBILEE 1998: $35 Aromas of sweet herbs and minerals.
In main dishes and desserts try the "sweet" herbs and spices: cardamom, coriander, basil, nutmeg, ginger and mace.
It's a simple one, with only a few ingredients: a bit of butter, a handful of sweet herbs and some tangy crème fraîche.
When our electoral college meets, would it be too much to ask of somebody to strew some sweet herbs on the hustings?
This week's City Kitchen column features one of my warm-weather favorites, a rice noodle salad garnished with sweet herbs, peanuts and grilled chicken.
It is essentially a chopped salad made with crisp toasted stale pita or other Arab flatbread; the aforementioned tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers; and an olive oil dressing with lots of sweet herbs.
Upon reaching Damascus in 1326, Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, the Arab travel writer from Tangier, said that no words could do justice to the city's charm; he resorted to quoting his Maghribi predecessor, Ibn Jubayr, who sojourned in Damascus in 1184 and wrote that Damascus had "adorned herself with flowers of sweet scented herbs" and "is encircled by gardens as the moon…by its halo".
Saffron is named among the sweet-smelling herbs in Song of Solomon 4 14.
Sometimes they contained a small lidded box called a till, fixed across one end, to hold sweet-smelling herbs.
On the opening day of each new session, the judges carry bouquets into court with them, and sprigs of sweet-scented herbs are strewn on the floor of the building — a now traditional ceremony to mark what used to be a practical, if possibly ineffective, effort to make bearable the stench of the Newgate cells.
A new study reveals that tiny birds on the French island of Corsica may decorate their nests with sweet-smelling herbs to keep them free of pests.
