But dittany, which is to be had in the woods all the while those insects remain in vigor, is a sure defence against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference

Wild goats in Crete are said, when wounded by arrows, to go in search of dittany, which is supposed to have the property of ejecting arrows in the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

With dittany and endive and foxglove for his fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

They were wincing as they dabbed essence of dittany onto their many injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]

The snake hit you too, but I've cleaned the wound and put some dittany on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]

I had collected a pocketful of eyebright and dittany by the time they finished talking and Hugh Munro rose to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference

Within minutes he was absorbed in the problem of whether the "dittanders" of Aelfric was, or was not, the same as his own "dittany".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Novice]

Reverend John Clayton, who had some insights into medical science himself, with her ability to cure the bite of a rattlesnake by using the drug dittany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference

Such as pennyroyal, hysop, dittany, &c. &c. Page 135.    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

With your nourishing growth you surpass dittany, Ambrosia, and fragrant panacea.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Coffee] Reference

The King is well acquainted with the inconyenienctes which may arife upon fo dittany and beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: Containing an Impartial ...] Reference

There must be marchantia under the spray of the one, and possibly dittany in the peat of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference

A gentleman in Spartanburg district, S. C., tells me that in his day "everybody cured everything with dittany.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

About the time the menses should flow, the patient should drink freely of a tea of tansey, dittany, balm, rattle-root, penny-royal or some sweating tea.    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

On their mountains, and notably on Ida, grows that dittany which works such marvels, and which perhaps may give activity to this hot medicinal drink of theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference

And the poet had consider’d that the dittany which she brought from Crete could not have wrought so speedy an effect, without the juice of ambrosia, which she mingled with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dedication] Reference

And whatever we may succeed in growing there to please our taste or (like some virtuous dittany) to heal our bruises, this much is certain, that the power of enjoyment has to be brought from beyond its limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life] Reference

Juno’s favourite flowers were, it is written, the dittany.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

The snake hit you too, but I’ve cleaned the wound and put some dittany on it …” He pulled the sweaty T-shirt he was wearing away from himself and looked down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]

555ditamy, dittany: In Old French, dictame; whence, probably, the spelling used by Keats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes] Reference

It is cultivated in the gardens of the Havannah under the strange name of the dictanno real (royal dittany).), and the mountains of the Brigantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

No, for a dittany look I'll wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frogs] Reference

A stalk of dittany on Ida's crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference

A branch of healing dittany she brought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid English] Reference

And where sharp dittany now vainly grew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

10 dittany, ii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

The common dittany (cunila.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference

Spice-wood, sassafras, and dittany, are also plenty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America] Reference

St. PeteiVwort, bean-caper, double camomile, capficum, greater centaury, dittany of Crete, dra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gardeners Kalendar: Directing the Necessary Works to be Done Every Month ...] Reference