Every Christmas us got ginger cake and sassafras tea. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
I got so thin on sassafras tea I could hide behind a straw. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
"Did you ever taste the bark of the sassafras-tree?" asked Paul. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3] Reference
Well, as soon as we got through with our sassafras tea, which Little. From Wordnik.com. [Shenanigans at Sugar Creek] Reference
Dey brewed tea from sage leaves, sassafras root and other herb teas. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Tell where the sassafras bushes grow, and where wild flags are found. From Wordnik.com. [Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann] Reference
Like gold, sassafras diverted labor during the crucial early period at. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
We dig up burdock root, wild carrots, wild parsnips, we collect sassafras. From Wordnik.com. [Foodies Forage To Connect With Nature] Reference
The boys found that even the sassafras could not have given her more pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
Flat sugar sassafras, grease fries ketchup and side-mayonnaise, side-pickle. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Koan (Valentine's Day Massacre)] Reference
We slaves an 'a lot of de white folks drank sassafras tea in de place of coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Tastes something like the sassafras tea I used to get dosed with when I was a kid. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
Olive oil, spirits of camphor and chloroform, of each two ounces; sassafras oil, 1 drachm. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Well, I dragged myself to a little clump of sassafras, not caring much whether I lived or died. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
Boulders cropped out here and there, and haws, red and white elms, and sassafras grew and shaded it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
A ship sailed from there in 1608 freighted with "iron-ore, sassafras, cedar posts and walnut boards.". From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
The former is represented by the sassafras and spice-bush, common throughout the eastern United States. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
There's a powerful lot of them in the woods, like sassafras root and checkerberry and things like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers] Reference
"Shake hands, Wort," and as he spoke he carelessly but effectively waved a stick of sassafras-pipe in Wort's sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference
The root of the sassafras furnished a different kind of tea, a substitute for the India and Ceylon teas now popular. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Attached to the woman's waist was a pocket apron bulging with herbs, camomile and catnip, wood sorrel and sassafras root. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
The sassafras, the name of which is familiar to botanists on account of its medicinal qualities, is a large and tall tree. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Compounds found in wormwood, pennyroyal, sassafras, and wintergreen oils may be toxic and difficult for the body to process. From Wordnik.com. [Safety tips for essential oils] Reference
A good way to rid the house of flies is to saturate small cloths with oil of sassafras and lay them in windows and doors. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Stir it well and when cool, strain it into a large jug or pan, then mix in a teaspoonful (not more) of essence of sassafras. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
The brilliant autumnal tints of the sassafras, pepperidge, blue beech, viburnum, juneberry and sumach are strikingly attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
To make a bow take a piece of any tough, elastic wood, as cedar, ash, sassafras or hickory, well-seasoned, about your own length. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
China-root, snake-root, sassafras, are the spontaneous growth of the woods; and sage, balm and rosemary thrive well in the gardens. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
He gathered wild strawberries and sassafras for the women and they prepared a "brew" which almost equalled their ale of old England. From Wordnik.com. [The Women Who Came in the Mayflower] Reference
The trees yielding common camphor and borneol are from genera of the lauraceæ family; also sassafras camphor is from the same family. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
Red oak, birch and sassafras crowed the far bank of the cove, rose from their own perfect reflections into a cloudless, late summer sky. From Wordnik.com. [A Theology of Anorexia] Reference
If you dig them out and leave a piece of root in the ground, it will come up just like sassafras or persimmon will on that piece of root. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
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