Herbals are doubtless collected by many who are not possessed of medical knowledge, and a number of them treat more of simples and housewifery than leechcraft, which is probably one reason of their attraction for the non-medical collector. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Is it possible to get a copy of your leechcraft article?. From Wordnik.com. [Unlocked Wordhoard] Reference
When asked what he brought, he professed skill in leechcraft. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
I slept, belike to gather simples, for she is wise in leechcraft, and is tending the sick man. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
Now understood Vortimer, his son, that he had taken poison; might no leechcraft help him any whit. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
"Bring hither those skilled in leechcraft and let them look to the wounds of the Lord Gerard that he may be comforted.". From Wordnik.com. [Huon of the Horn]
In a few weeks, so soft was she of her hands and so learned in leechcraft, she had cleaned Tristram's wound of all poison and he was hale and strong again. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Then she lit a torch, and held it up and said, "Here, Njal, is thy son Hauskuld, and he hath gotten many wounds upon him, and now he will need leechcraft.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
"As for that," retorted the man in a sing-song voice, "no one can tell whether a medicine be antidote or poison, unless as leechcraft and chirurgery point out --". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
For though all lore was in these latter days fallen from its fullness of old, the leechcraft of Gondor was still wise, and skilled in the healing of wound and hurt, and all such sickness as east of the Sea mortal men were subject to. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
He appears under various disguises and names, but usually as a one-eyed old man, cowled and hooded; sometimes with another, bald and ragged, as before the battle Hadding won; once as "Hroptr", a huge man skilled in leechcraft, to Ragnar's son Sigfrid. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
And the stranger is recovered, thanks to our leechcraft. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
And we dealt with venom and leechcraft, and we fashioned spear and bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
Some of these were wounded men, and you mind that I am skilled in leechcraft. From Wordnik.com. [King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut] Reference
The country was as innocent of leechcraft as the land of Canaan in the days of Abraham. From Wordnik.com. [The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable] Reference
This conjunction of leechcraft and cooking was in early days far from being considered demeaning to the healing art. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
Think not, then, that thus to act cometh of cruelty and inhumanity; nay, but of the highest gentleness and the most skillful leechcraft and of much tender care. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
The theory of Taiji Quan (Shadow Boxing) evolved from the classical works of the Chinese traditional philosophy, leechcraft, Wushu, such as the Book of Changes, Huang Di. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
Nature, to say nothing of Madge's leechcraft, ultimately triumphed, and Marmaduke woke one morning in full possession of such understanding as Nature had endowed him with. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
Douban readily undertook to obey the commands of the Emperor, and remained by the bed of the patient until the dawn of morning, ready to support nature as far as the skill of leechcraft admitted. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
In connection with his worship and with the clan of the Asclepiadae (that widespread stock to which Aristotle belonged, and in which the practice of leechcraft was hereditary), Cos possessed a school of medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
But during the night the child grew worse, the physician (the leechcraft has never been very skilful at Naples) shook his powdered head, kept his aromatics at his nostrils, administered his palliatives, and departed. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
He prescribed prompt and vigorous remedies, which had indeed before the surgeon's arrival suggested themselves to, and been partly commenced by, Darrell, who had gone through too many varieties of experience to be unversed in the rudiments of leechcraft. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
He knows a bit more about leechcraft and magery than I. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
"Sir Benedict," exclaimed the baron, "thou art somewhat learned in leechcraft; see if thou canst do aught. From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
And I will go to my inn, and speak with my men, and at the midnight I will come again forth-right, with other leechcraft, that shall be to him healing. ". From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
"He is the power of leechcraft; he is the healing of wounds; he is the thwarting of death; he is the absence of every weakness, is that man," said Fergus, "namely Fingin the prophet mediciner, the physician of. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
"'I am a forester,' replied the tall man, 'but I understand somewhat of chirurgery and leechcraft.'. From Wordnik.com. [Windsor Castle] Reference
"Is there any here who has any leechcraft?". From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
But not by spell nor leechcraft to be cured!. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference
No leechcraft helps 'gainst the deadly thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Feast at Solhoug] Reference
Small leechcraft have I, and she tells no man. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference
And him, whose leechcraft thus availed to save. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
Priestcraft and leechcraft were combined in him. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
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