SLOE

name applied to the blackthorn and also to various American wild plums.

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books on: Sloe  - 427 results

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1.
Plants, Man and Life
Book by Edgar Anderson; Little, Brown & Company, 1952
Subjects: Botany, Botany, Economic
PLUM: common plum, Prunus domestica; sloe, Prunus spinosa; Balkan plum, Prunus cerasifera...hexaploid, and that its parents are very probably the sloe and the Balkan plum. The sloe, a spiny little shrub with a tiny bitter dark...
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The Literary Symbol
Book by William York Tindall; Columbia University Press, 1955
Subjects: Symbolism In Literature
...simile of the "lush-kept plush-capped sloe," crushed against a palate to flush and...but if one is holy enough, equations of sloe and God as of Virgin and gas have nothing...not think Hopkins a symbolist. Yet the sloe may be considered the symbol of what it...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Book by Israel Gollancz; Oxford University Press, 1940
Subjects: Arthurian Romances, Gawain (Legendary Character)--Romances
...sle e , skilfully made, 797, 893; ON. sloe + gr; cp . vn-sly e. sle ly , stealthily, 1182; ON. sloe + gr + -ly. sle te , v . sly t . slentyng...sle te , ingenious examples, 916; ON. sloe + geth. slypte , pt. pl . escaped, 1160...
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
Book by James George Frazer, Robert Fraser; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Magic, Mythology, Religion, Superstition
...Halloween, and a ring, a coin, a sloe, and a chip of wood are put into...die first; and whoever gets the sloe will live longest, because the fairies blight the sloes in the hedges on Halloween, so that the sloe in the cake will be the last of...
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Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole
Book by E. L. Joseph, Lise Winer; UWI Press, 2001
Subjects: Arundell, Warner, Historical Fiction
...I believe, is a mixture of sloe-juice and gin, but which...imported! " : Arundell describes sloe gin, a potent mixture of gin and the juice of sloes blackthorn fruit . "Day and...presumably the idea here is that the sloe gin is very dark. "Neat as...
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journal articles on: Sloe  - 25 results

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Fuzzy Navels and Slippery Nipples: a Sociolinguistic Reading of the Cocktail Menu
Journal article by Susan Irvin Gatti; The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 26, 2003
Subjects: Anatomy & physiology, Cultural values, Linguistics, Recipes, Traditions
...Margueritas, Grasshoppers, Bacardis, Smith and Currants, Sloe Screws, gin fizzes and alcohol heavily laced with soda pop...recipe suggests a visual image: a quarter shot of creamy-head sloe gin tops off the Black Orgasm, while a double shot of Jack Daniels...
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RiskCity and WebRiskCity: Data Collection, Display, and Dissemination in a Multi-Risk Training Package
Journal article by Simone Frigerio, Cees J. Van Westen; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 37, 2010
Subjects: Distance education--Methods, Open source software--Educational aspects, Open source software--Product development, Public software--Educational aspects, Public software--Product development, Risk assessment--Methods
...br/ Aspect Class Raster map Classified as aspect map <br/ Sloe Class Raster map Classified slope map <br/ Lithology Class Polygon map Classified lithology map <br/ Hazard (Sloe, Aspect, <br/ Lithology <br/ Weight Map Raster map Weight...
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The Ring
Journal article by David Moolten; New England Review, Vol. 20, 1999
Subjects: Poetry
...lake-bottom silt smoother than a womans hands Would hide it, that fourteen carats would not sparkle Like a star against the sloe-mash gloam Of those shallows, exponential and piercing With the veiled immensity of what he knew But could never quite say...
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'No John Clare': Minute Observations from the Ulster Cottage Door 1790-1800
Journal article by Jennifer Orr; John Clare Society Journal, 2010
...hedgehog, from its hollow root Sees the wood moss clear of snow hunts the hedge for fallen fruit Crab, hip, and winter-bitten sloe oft when checkd by sudden fears As shepherddog his haunt espies He rolls up in a ball of spears . all his barking rage defies...
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The Bones of Garbo
Journal article by Trud Lewis; New England Review, Vol. 20, 1999
Subjects: Fiction
...at the disco where Id flash the fake I.D. Kerry had made for me, join the boys drinking gin and tonic, the girls drinking sloe gin fizzes, and practice couples dancing until we dropped away, one by one, reclaimed by our various curfews, I felt guilty...
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magazine articles on: Sloe  - 41 results

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Hunting for Pheasant on Monkton Farm
Magazine article by Jed Babbin; The American Spectator, Vol. 37, February 2004
Subjects: Firearms, Hunting, United Kingdom, Wildfowl
...a snack, usually a miniature mince pie and sloe gin. (For those who havent had the pleasure of sloe gin, think about Vicks Formula 44.) This...drive, then another break (This time the sloe gin was unavoidable. Whats perfectly scary...
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Tough as Bob War and Other Stuff
Magazine article by Molly Ivins; The Nation, Vol. 242, June 7, 1986
Subjects: Loeffler, Tom--Political activity, Texas--Political aspects, White, Mark--Political activity
...along on the Afghan jaunt. According to The Houston Post, she is a "dark-haired and sloe-eyed beauty," and you hardly ever find a good case of sloe-eyed beauty in the newspapers anymore. The Post said, "She went everywhere with Wilson...
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References for "i'm Still Here"
Magazine article by Mark Shaiman, James Schneider; The Sondheim Review, Vol. 13, Summer 2007
...a member (or was accused of being a member) of said party. Sloe-eyed vamp: A woman with sexual allure and loose morals was...portrayed by silent film star Theda Bara best represent this term. "Sloe-eyed" refers to having very dark eyes. Camp: When a performance...
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Assoluta
Magazine article by Laura Jacobs; New Criterion, Vol. 23, October 2004
Subjects: Ananiashvili, Nina--Appreciation, Ananiashvili, Nina--Criticism and interpretation, Balanchine, George--Appreciation, Balanchine, George--Criticism and interpretation, Ballerinas--Appreciation, Ballerinas--Criticism and interpretation, Ballet dancers--Appreciation, Ballet dancers--Criticism and interpretation, Makarova, Natalia--Appreciation, Makarova, Natalia--Criticism and interpretation, Part, Veronika--Appreciation, Part, Veronika--Criticism and interpretation
...a big cat with a terrific pounce. If anything, the word is sloe--the dark plum of the blackthorn--dancing that is rounded...sparkling recoveries, Parts is more maiden and minotaur, beauties sloe-ly unspooled. And if Farrell seemed to be lifting away from...
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Happy No. 80
Magazine article by Diane Nottle; The Sondheim Review, Vol. 17, Fall 2010
...avantgarde to being old hat in five minutes." Or, as he put it nearly 40 years ago in "Im Still Here": First youre another sloe-eyed vamp Then someones mother, then youre camp Then you career from career to career ... Sondheims music and lyrics are...
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newspaper articles on: Sloe  - 264 results

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Take It Sloe This Year; Jade Wright Meets the Man Bringing Sloe Gin Back into Fashion
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 18, 2011
...warmer. But pick your sloes early and get them infusing...Curtoys from Southport runs Sloe Motion, an award-winning sloe gin company. "Sloe gin is a very traditional...the 17th century when sloes became very prevalent...plentiful," he explains. "Sloe gin is only really found...
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A Sloe Day at the Office; IN SEASON
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 11, 2011
Subjects: Liquor, Liquors
...its a good year for sloes, so I am hopeful...could make enough sloe gin to give little...we need to make the sloe gin - a glass jar, a fork, gin, sugar and sloes. After removing the...tipple) ? 300g sugar ? Sloe berries ? Two 1...jars Method Pick your sloes from blackthorn hedges...
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Sloe&s Are Slow to Grow This Year
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), September 24, 2005
Sloe s Are Slow to Grow This Year...annual hunt for blackberries and sloe berries. The former make magnificent...jelly and the latter a beautiful sloe gin which if prepared within...something has happened to the sloes. The bushes I normally find...
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Is Gin a 'Sloe Go' This Year?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 15, 2008
Subjects: Liquor, Liquors
Is Gin a Sloe Go This Year? QUESTION Why arent there any sloes this year? There was lots of blackthorn...in spring but I havent seen a single sloe which means no sloe gin this year. ITS the weather. Sloes are the first white blossom to appear...
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News Briefs: Sloe Berries Sale
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), September 25, 2007
News Briefs: Sloe Berries Sale. BERRIES virtually inedible in their raw state are going on sale at a UK food chain. Waitrose says it will be the first supermarket to sell sloe berries, used to make sloe gin and berry jam and will launch them at a small number of London stores.
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encyclopedia articles on: Sloe  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Sloe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SLOE name applied to the blackthorn and also to various American wild plums. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Blackthorn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLACKTHORN or sloe, low, spreading, thorny bush or small tree ( Prunus spinosa ) of the...canes and cudgels, and the juice of the berries is used in making brandy, sloe gin, and preserves and as a diluent of port. One of the hawthorns is...
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Gin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...than Holland gin. Dry gin has been highly rectified. Old Tom gin is sweetened for use as a liqueur. Sloe gin is flavored with fresh sloes instead of juniper. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Montgomerie, Alexander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MONTGOMERIE, ALEXANDER m ntgum re, c.1556 c.1610, Scottish poet. His principal poem, The Cherry and the Sloe (1597), is a pedestrian and ambiguous allegory that enjoyed considerable popularity in its time. Montgomeries other work includes...
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Rose
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and hardhack), Rosa (the true roses), Crataegus ( hawthorn ), and Prunus (including the almond , apricot , blackthorn or sloe, cherry , nectarine , peach , and plum ). Economically the rose family is of enormous importance. It provides numerous temperate...


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