 Gethsemane,' is said to have been growing at the foot of the cross, and to have received some drops of blood on its leaves. Hence the dark stains by which they have ever since been marked ; just as  A Dictionary of English Plant-names - Page 203by James Britten - 1886 - 618 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1863 - 622 pages
...be connected with holier names, and not unfrequently with the events of the Crucifixion itself. Thus one species of orchis, which in Cheshire is called...dark stains by which they have ever since been marked ; just as 'Jean le gorge-rouge,' as the robin is called in Britanny, is there said to have plucked... | |
 | Leisure - 1852 - 950 pages
...tbey were suddenly restored' by eating this plant. In Cheshire it is called Gethsemane, because it is said to have been growing at the foot of the cross, and to have received on its leaves some drops of blood. " Those deep unwrought marks, The villager will tell thee, Are the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1863 - 626 pages
...be connected with holier names, and not unfrequently with the events of the Crucifixion itself. Thus one species of orchis, which in Cheshire is called...dark stains by which they have ever since been marked ; just as ' Jean Ie gorge-rouge,' as the robin is called in Britanny, is there said to have plucked... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1863 - 602 pages
...be connected with holier names, and not unfrequently with the events of the Crucifixion itself. Thus one species of orchis, which in Cheshire is called...dark stains by which they have ever since been marked ; just as ' Jean le gorge-rouge,' as the robin is called in Britanny, is there said to have plucked... | |
 | Richard John King - Belgium - 1874 - 464 pages
...be connected with holier names, and not nnfrequently with the events of the Crucifixion itself. Thus one species of orchis, which in Cheshire is called...dark stains by which they have ever since been marked ; just as ' Jean le gorge-rouge,' as the robin is called in Britanny, is there said to have plucked... | |
 | Richard John King - Belgium - 1874 - 508 pages
...events of the Crucifixion itself. Thus one species of orchis, which in Cheshire is called ' Gethsemanc,' is said to have been growing at the foot of the cross,...dark stains by which they have ever since been marked ; just as ' Jean le gorge-rouge,' as the robin is called in Britauny, is there said to have plucked... | |
 | 1875 - 660 pages
...Nor are trees alone, to be noticed; the Arum maculatum is called Gethsemane in Cheshire, becauseSt is said to have been growing at the foot of the Cross,...to have received some drops of blood on its leaves. ' Those deep unwrought marks, The villager will tell thcc, Are the flower's portion from the atoning... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...According to others it was a fig tree. In Cheshire the Arum maculatum is called Gethsemane, because it is said to have been growing at the foot of the cross, and to have received on its leaves some drops of blood : — "Those deep unwrought marks, The villager will tell thee, Are... | |
 | Natural history - 1883 - 314 pages
...and sure remedy for poison and the plague." In Cheshire this Arum is called Gethsemane, because it is said to have been growing at the foot of the cross, and to have received on its leaves some drops of blood — " Those deep, unwrought marks, The villager will tell thee, Are... | |
 | 1880 - 572 pages
...sponge soaked in the blood of Christ. In Cheshire the Arum maculatum is called Gethsemane," because it is said to have been growing at the foot of the cross, and to have received some drops of blood on its petals. The dirpe of Mamre died at the Crucifixion ! " Christ's Thorn " is a very common plant in Palestine.... | |
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