"Nasturtium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... corner, sharp upon the water, the east-winds broke about a little yellow house, where no children played; an old man's face watched at a window, and a nasturtium-vine crawled in the garden. The broken panes of glass about the place were well mended, and a clever little gate, extemporized from a wild grape-vine, swung at the entrance. It was not ...
— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... that it not always appreciated at first, but which one soon becomes very partial to. It more nearly resembles the flavour of a rock melon than that of any other fruit, and the seeds, which are found clustered in the centre of the fruit, have a flavour that closely resembles that of seeds of the nasturtium. Both the seeds and the fruit contain an active principle called papain, which is really a vegetable pepsin, that has the effect of greatly assisting in the assimilation of all food with which it is eaten, hence it is a valuable remedy in the case ...
— Fruits of Queensland • Albert Benson
... confessed that a tear or two dimmed the blue eyes, and once, when a very brilliant display illuminated the island for a moment, and she fancied she saw the tents, the curly head went down on the railing, and a wide-awake nasturtium heard ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... and thence out into the hold of a waiting ship. Then there were the fortresses and gun emplacements and covered ways in which one's soldiers went. And there was commerce; the shops and markets and store-rooms full of nasturtium seed, thrift seed, lupin beans and suchlike provender from the garden; such stuff one stored in match-boxes and pill-boxes, or packed in sacks of old glove fingers tied up with thread and sent off by waggons along ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells
... The yellow Nasturtium, a spinster all faded, Was telling a Lily what ailed the poor Rose: 'That wild, roving Bee, who was hanging about her Has jilted her ...
— The Englishman and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
