Where life is somewhat improved, they are now made of leather tanned with oak bark, as in other places, or with the bark of birch, or roots of tormentil, a substance recommended in defect of bark, about forty years ago, to the Irish tanners, by one to whom the parliament of that kingdom voted a reward.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference

What fine old names they have, great with the blended dignities of literary and rural lore; archangel, tormentil, rosa solis or sun-dew, horehound, Saracen's wound-wort, melilot or king's clover, pellitory of Spain!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference

The other contains prepared herbs which are useful as preventives -- tormentil, valerian, zedoary, angelica, and so forth; but I take it that pure vinegar is as good an antidote to infection as anything one can find.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sign of the Red Cross] Reference

Where life is somewhat improved, they are now made of leather tanned with oak bark, as in other places, or with the bark of birch, or roots of tormentil, a substance recommended in defect of bark, about forty years ago, to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference

Rhubarb, rheum palmatum, oak-galls, gallæ quercinæ, tormentil, tormentilla erecta, cinquefoil potentilla, red-roses, uva ursi, simarouba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

He likewise collected a number of herbs and simples; as Virginian snakeweed, contrajerva, pestilence-wort, angelica, elecampane, zedoary, tormentil, valerian, lovage, devils-bit, dittany, master-wort, rue, sage, ivy-berries, and walnuts; together with bole ammoniac, terra sigillata, bezoar-water, oil of sulphur, oil of vitriol, and other compounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire] Reference