In the novel she is described as having eyes black as sloes, hair black as ink, a swarthy complexion and a poor little skin stretched over poor little bones.
The liqueur is poured off and the sloes discarded.
The country becomes lusher, with both ordinary mulberries and the king mulberry, plums, sloes and soft apples.
It is found in places with sloe thickets and particularly orchards.
Einkorn wheat is harvested in the late summer, and sloes in the autumn; these must have been stored from the previous year.
Her drawings are of sloe-eyed women, covering a varied array of female forms and expressing many different emotions.
Sloe whisky and sloe brandy are variants on the tradition, and are often mixed with ginger beer or ginger ale.
They find life constantly renewing itself in the quick- fading and sloe- blooming buds of the forest.
