In Europe, however, this isn't the case; "wormwood" is used only for the absinth-producing species, Artemisia absinthium. From Wordnik.com. [A star called Mugwort] Reference
No wonder your home brew tasted awful: wormwood is exceedingly bitter. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Green Fairy] Reference
Yes, I recall the wormwood, which is always a planted herb, so there must have been folks there before the Todds 'day. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Joanna] Reference
The drug is extracted from artemisia annua, more commonly known as wormwood or sagewort, a plant native to Asia. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Heb. la'anah, generally rendered "wormwood" (q.v.), Deut. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
They have changed the type of "wormwood" that they put in it. From Wordnik.com. [KSL / U.S. / National] Reference
“It is what the Saxons call wormwood,” said I. “Oh, wermod. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
So she had her first taste of a kind of wormwood that is very common in the world though it did not grow in. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
On the wretch who hath mingled this wormwood and gall. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference
This state of matters was as gall and wormwood to Ada. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference
The wreath of wormwood was his, and the statue of brass. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
I have neither the wit nor the wormwood required for that. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
The supper, with its merry chat, was gall and wormwood to her. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The bitterness of his inferiority and servitude was as wormwood within him. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Its naturally rich fields were grown up to scrub pines, mugworts and wormwood. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
The thought that the efforts of years might come to naught was bitter as wormwood to him. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
Why had she spat out as gall and wormwood the sweet morsel she had rolled under her tongue?. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Losing always hurt him dreadfully -- it would be gall and wormwood to have lost to such a winner. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Yankee fashion, it might be answered by the question, "Why do we like sugar and dislike wormwood?". From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Nature and his parents alike dandle him, and tice him on with a bait of sugar to a draught of wormwood. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
But extracting the clunky molecule from the sweet-wormwood plant that produces it is slow and expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Keasling] Reference
He provided his army surgeons with small vials containing a decoction of wormwood, camomile, and camphor. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
And the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] 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
The maddening thought of Eleanor and Quinton together adds gall and wormwood to the desolation in the deserted husband's heart. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
He did, and immediately he drew back his head forcefully, the bitter taste of his wormwood oat hands leaving him cringing for sugar. From Wordnik.com. [The Oaten Hands] Reference
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