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(which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular), but black as a sloe, and her countenance did not make an appearance altogether so hideous as the rest of her kind; for I think she could not be above eleven years old.

Along an alleyway he went and slipping in at the back door of the saloon began drinking a drink made of a combination of sloe gin and soda water.

Mowgli, who had never known what real hunger meant, fell back on stale honey, three years old, scraped out of deserted rock-hives--honey black as a sloe, and dusty with dried sugar.

There is likewise an undergrowth of aromatic shrubs, creepers, and clambering vines, that render the forests almost impenetrable; together with berries of various kinds, such as gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, both red and yellow, very large and finely flavored whortleberries, cranberries, serviceberries, blackberries, currants, sloes, and wild and choke cherries.

Thereupon little Giry--the girl with eyes black as sloes, hair black as ink, a swarthy complexion and a poor little skin stretched over poor little bones--little Giry added:

All around it looked so cold and raw: the long willow-leaves were quite yellow, and the fog dripped from them like water; one leaf fell after the other: the sloes only stood full of fruit, which set one's teeth on edge.

I niver remember a blue eye i' my family; my mother had eyes as black as sloes, just like Hetty's."

Global plum and sloe consumption peaked in 2018 and is expected to retain its growth in the near future.

Sterilised bottles to store gin 1 Rinse the sloes and pat them dry.

Take 25ml of sloe gin (I used Tesco finest Sloe Gin 70cl, [pounds sterling]15); add 10ml of Chambord and 10ml lemon juice and shake in a cocktail shaker.

For my Great Aunts were bottling, making jam and sloe gin From every ripe berry around.

Sloe (the purplish black fruit of the blackthorn shrub, Prunus spinosa) for making my own sloe gin.