| 1. | We call a nettle but a nettle, an. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | That sinister nettle had loved and protected that lily. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | And what is required for the nettle A little soil, no care, no culture. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | I am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 9. | Fairfax" exclaimed I, nettled "he is nothing like my fathe. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | Among the nettles at the elder-tre. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | He had been growing nettled before, but now he pulled himself together. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 12. | Yield stinging nettles to mine enemie. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | The other plants turned to nettles and weeds, and died. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | 'Bah' he whispered, as though nettled by the interruption 'it's the man I expected before he's coming downstairs. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 15. | that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and wee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | Among the bushes they brayed under the nettles they were gathered together. - from The King James Bible |
