Ground pine and "checkerberry" grew abundantly in the grove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Jim] Reference

Both boys breathed deep of the piney fragrance and filled their mouths with pungent "checkerberry" leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Jim] Reference

"Why, it tastes like checkerberry-leaves," said Rachel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3] Reference

I came to hunt for some simples ... for spearmint and checkerberry and tansy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] 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

"I will go over on the hill and get her some young checkerberry leaves," resolved Anna, remembering how Rebby liked their sharp flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference

"Run on ahead, girlies," said Aileen to the twins who were with her for their annual checkerberry picnic, "I'll be down in a few minutes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

"But, Aileen, won't you stay to supper?" said the twins at one and the same time; "we always have you to celebrate our checkerberry picnic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

There were checkerberry-pipe and licorice-pipe and sassafras-pipe, and -- how Wort's eyes did glisten and his mouth water as he imagined the different kinds there!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference

There were many crimson berries still clinging to the vines, and Anna picked these carefully, using her cap for a basket, and gathering a quantity of the young checkerberry leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference

"Now I will have a fine surprise for her when she awakes," and the little girl tiptoed noiselessly back to the edge of the woods, where she had noticed a quantity of checkerberry leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference

They looked for the story in the windings of the checkerberry-vine and blue-eyed periwinkle, on the lichens curiously growing on the boles of aged trees; but for all these they had no dictionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference

The raw eggs tasted good to the hungry girls, and the good corn-bread and spicy berries and tender checkerberry leaves, with cool water to drink, made them both feel refreshed and rested, and ready for the remaining distance to Chandler's River settlement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference

Mrs. Pike was not near, would give him a checkerberry lozenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nautilus] Reference

Her breath carried the keen scent of crushed checkerberry plums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

We taste still the sting of checkerberry and woodsy flavor of the fragrant birch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference

Gaultheria procumbens (checkerberry), prevailing everywhere in woods along banks of rivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

They're as innocent as they look; good honest mint and spice and checkerberry and lemon and rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Folks] Reference

Now it was cress from the spring, now a palm-full of partridge berries, or a cluster of checkerberry leaves for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiverton Tales] Reference

If he saw anywhere a particularly red checkerberry, he went that way; otherwise it was all one to him where he went.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nine Little Goslings] Reference

There was a twisted red-and-white stick of peppermint, pink checkerberry, clear barley -- a stick of every kind in the glass jars in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference

I was struck with the abundance of the Linnaea borealis, checkerberry, and Chiogenes hispidula, almost everywhere in the Maine woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

Placing in my lap a small but not ungrateful roll of checkerberry lozenges, he took the occasion to repeat softly in my ear the words of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

But when he saw a cluster of checkerberry plums in spring gleam withered red against gray moss, on some stony upland, he stood still and pondered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

Here were, indeed, great riches, "a little of everything" that pasture life affords: a hardy bed of checkerberry, crimson strawberries nodding on long stalks, and in one sequestered corner the beloved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiverton Tales] Reference

Inner bark very aromatic, having a strong checkerberry flavor, -- hence the common name, "checkerberry birch"; called also "cherry birch," from the resemblance of its bark to that of the garden cherry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

Its industries are varied: they make large washing-machines and mangles for hotels and public institutions, weave woolen cloths and flannels, make sarsaparilla syrup, checkerberry oil, and knit woolen socks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation] Reference

A lime-drop boy and a little pink checkerberry girl were her favorite playmates; and they had fine times making mud-pies by scraping the chocolate rocks and mixing this dust with honey from the wells near by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Candy Country] Reference

Here were, indeed, great riches, "a little of everything" that pasture life affords: a hardy bed of checkerberry, crimson strawberries nodding on long stalks, and in one sequestered corner the beloved Linnaea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiverton Tales] Reference

Montfort had finally been quieted, by soothing words and promises, followed up by hot malted milk and checkerberry cordial, the latter grimly administered by Frances, and so strong that it made the poor lady sneeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Montfort] Reference

It looks just like a piece of checkerberry candy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Short Stories] Reference

"Cal'late there's some of those sassafras -- checkerberry lozengers left yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary-'Gusta] Reference

"Thee's quite welcome to do the fighting, George," said Phineas, chewing some checkerberry-leaves as he spoke; "but I may have the fun of looking on, I suppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Tom's Cabin] Reference

"That is the checkerberry," said Paul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3] Reference