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Updated: May 29, 2025
She tossed it, bit by bit, over the west wall of the churchyard, where in time it became a mound, covered high with sting-nettles. If you poke among these nettles with your walking-stick, the odds are that you turn up a scrap of rusty iron. But there exists more explicit testimony to Zeb's wedding within the church and within the churchyard, too, where he and Ruby have rested this many a year.
For the bulge of the breast is steep, and ribbed with hoops coming up in denial, concrete with chalk, muricated with flint, and thornily crested with good stout furze. And the forefront of the head, when gained, is stiff with brambles, and stubbed with sloes, and mitred with a choice band of stanch sting-nettles.
Also, instead of sweet-briar, there is now a very flourishing crop of sting-nettles. All this I could see, because the high door with the spikes, that used to part the Dial-court from this place of common business, was fallen forward from its upper hinge, and splayed out so that I could put my fist through.
Indeed, Emily was still trembling from the fright she had undergone, and Mrs. Rowles's thoughts were fully occupied. They came to a stile over which they climbed, Juliet so awkwardly that she slipped into a ditch among sting-nettles. "Oh, the horrid things!" she exclaimed; "they've bitten me!" "It is only nettles," said her aunt; "you've got stung."
To walk had been worse than to drag one's way through a stubbly bed of sting-nettles. But now the quick sting of the sun was gone, and his power descending in the balance toward the flat places of the land and sea. And suddenly we looked forth upon an immeasurable spread of these. We stood at the gate of the sandy range, which here, like a vast brown patch, disfigures the beauty of the sierra.
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