Crossword-Solution: DARNELS 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Who condescended graciously to touch Thing after thing, but never would take much, While he, the owner of the mansion, sate On threshed-out straw, and spelt and darnels ate.

The winter corn in patches struggled sparsely through the clods; darnels, tares, deadnettle and couch, the vetches of last year and the thistles of next, contended with it, not in vain.

The upas-tree, for example, has given rise to many gruesome stories; and the mandrake, fabled to shriek when torn from the ground, has played a frequent part in poetry and legend; not to mention the host of noxious weeds, the "plants at whose names the verse feels loath," as Shelley has it: And thistles, and nettles, and darnels rank, And the dock, and henbane, and hemlock dank.

And he blinked at the moon from his grinning cell, And the darnels and burdocks were stirred, Cold-swept of the wind, and I shuddered.--Well! Perhaps ’twas my heart I had heard.

LXXII When winter had gone and spring came back The Sensitive Plant was a leafless wreck; But the mandrakes, and toadstools, and docks, and darnels, Rose like the dead from their ruined charnels.