"Darnel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sights He met— The Sower flinging seed on loam and rock; The darnel in the wheat; the mustard-tree That hath its seeds so little, and its boughs Widespreading; and the wandering sheep; and nets Shot in the wimpled waters—drawing forth Great fish and small—these, and a hundred such, Seen by us daily, never ...
— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham
... But at that period of the summer, still a good while before harvest, when the ears of the grain begin to appear, some of the farmer's servants, looking narrowly into the quality of the crop, discovered that a large proportion of it was darnel. Forthwith they reported the sad intelligence to their master, and requested permission to pluck out the intruders. It was agreed among them that good seed had been sown, and the darnel or false wheat ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
... nought else; he and that young chap, Madison, always bringing docks and darnel out of the hedges, and plants from the nursery gardens, and bringing rockwork, and letting water in to make a swamp. There's no saying what's in the lad's head! But, of late, he's not done much but by times ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge |
