My friend agrimony is thinking about med school, and is doing some information gathering. From Wordnik.com. [attention, doctor friends!] Reference
Odd then, that the hemp agrimony behind should stand tall and unbending. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Bedfordshire] Reference
A few swallows swoop low and the rank green is broken by pink hemp agrimony, cream meadowsweet, blue tufted vetch and purple knapweed. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Given that aberdeen, whose media tastes largely coincide with mine, adores it, and that agrimony squees happily over it, this was a fairly safe bet. From Wordnik.com. [daaaaaaaamn.] Reference
Hemp agrimony, bird's-foot trefoil and knapweed attracted the attention of commas, common blues, red admirals and the only painted ladies we've encountered so far this year. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Durham coast] Reference
Fennil-roots, colts foot, agrimony, betony, large mace, white sander slic't in thin slices the weight of six pence, made with a chicken and a crust of manchet, take it morning and evening. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
He worked as swiftly as he could, elevating her feet, packing the place from which the blood was issuing with clean cloths, and giving her a draught of dried yarrow and agrimony, again mixed with wine. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Is not ---- 's last novel a better antidote against melancholy, stupendously absurd as it is, than foalfoot or plantain, featherfew or savin, agrimony or saxifrage, or any other herb in old Robert Burton's pharmacopoeia?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
The figure and shape of the leaves thereof is not much different from that of those of the ash-tree, or of agrimony; the herb itself being so like the Eupatorian plant that many skilful herbalists have called it the Domestic Eupator, and the Eupator the Wild. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Agrimonia Eupatoria (common agrimony), not uncommon. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Then she set about grubbing up roots of hemp agrimony where they grew. From Wordnik.com. [Lying Prophets] Reference
He wanted agrimony, but did not see any; but he did find yarrow in abundance. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys] Reference
The narrow path winding through the vineyards was bordered with cat-mint, agrimony, vervain, and camomile. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
Their look was sure death, but they could be poisoned by a draught compounded of agrimony, dill and vervain. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
An exquisitely delicate campanula with minute flowers bloomed with hemp-agrimony and wood-sage along the sides of the rills that. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
At a weir of sticks and stones forming a rather wide dam, overgrown by tall hemp-agrimony now in flower, we met with our first difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
Upon the banks, the high hemp-agrimony and purple loosestrife, with here and there an evening primrose, flaunt their masses of colour over the water or the pebbly shore. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
The west bank is lush and green, with edges fringed with pretty flowering rush Butomus umbellatus and frothy meadowsweet, agrimony, loosestrife and shiny marsh marigolds. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
In the early stages of this disease, and in mild attacks, it may generally be cured by drinking a tea of agrimony, narrow-dock root, sour-dock top or root, or burdoc root. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
The desmodium, the bidens, the agrimony and the cocklebur, which stick to your clothes even as late as February, are only using you as a Moses to lead their children to their promised land. From Wordnik.com. [Some Winter Days in Iowa] Reference
Take of the common elder, bark of the root, six ounces; burdoc root six ounces; egg shells browned, four ounces: queen of the meadow, six ounces; agrimony, six ounces: horse radish four ounces. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
'The agrimony.'. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
Did the agrimony work? '. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
He replied that it was agrimony. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
Wormwood, garlic" agrimony. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
agrimony Agrimonia eupatoria. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
Thyme, agrimony, hyssop, camomile. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference
Night-blooming cereus, agrimony, rue. From Wordnik.com. [0 786. A Dream of Flowers by Titus Munson Coan. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
For the liver, darthspine or camaepitis, germander, agrimony, fennel, endive, succory, liverwort, barberries. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
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