In cases of ordinary toothache, even severe ones, chewing a small piece of really good pellitory will often give relief in a few minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Tufts of weeds outline the paving-stones; the walls are scored by enormous cracks, and the blackened coping is laced with a thousand festoons of pellitory.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Grand Breteche] Reference

Holostea (greater stitchwort); also Parietaria Officinalis (wall pellitory), not yet in bloom, and in a pond Stratiotes Aloides (water soldier) in great abundance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

At the end you come to a second gateway, a Gothic archway covered with simple ornament, now crumbling into ruin and overgrown with wildflowers — moss and ivy, wallflowers and pellitory.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Grenadiere] Reference

The head from which Brother Mark's pellitory dressing had erased even the last drying sore of under-feeding and dirt burrowed comfortably into Joscelin's once-privileged shoulder, and he felt nothing but amused and indulgent affection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

What we do have, in quantity, is pellitory of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

She picked a little piece of pellitory out of the breast-high wall in front of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Soldier] Reference

A small piece of the pellitory root will, by the flow of saliva it causes, afford relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

In this context, Mabey's weeds - spiny restharrow, pellitory-of-the-wall or Martin's ramping fumitory - are playing a typically ambivalent role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

At the end you come to a second gateway, a Gothic archway covered with simple ornament, now crumbling into ruin and overgrown with wildflowers -- moss and ivy, wallflowers and pellitory.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Grenadiere] Reference

On his altar we may lay a posy of the herbs dedicated to his service by our forefathers: the primrose, the wild honeysuckle, the gentian and soap-wort, pellitory and bindweed, with others whose names escape me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral] 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

One might ramble a long time over the cobble stones of its steep narrow streets, and about the ruined ramparts draped with green pellitory and the spurred valerian's purple flowers, with a mind held in continual tension by the picturesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference

In the cloisters, the ivy and the pellitory and the little cranesbill have crept with the moss and the lichen from stone to stone, and in the centre of the quadrangle stands a great walnut-tree that spreads its branches and long leaves over all the grassy ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference

Then I climbed the long street over the rock and cobble stones between walls half green with pellitory, houses with high gables and rough wooden balconies where geraniums shone in the shadow, and from which the trailing plants hung low in that supreme luxuriance which is the beginning of their death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference

Under Ben's superintendence every loop-hole had been cleared, every collection of nesting ruins carefully removed, and they had no other married quarters but the holes in the walls, half-shaded by the green pellitory which rooted and flourished in company with the moss, that acted as sponges to retain enough moisture for its sustenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War] Reference

Wall pellitory abounds in nitrate of potass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early English Meals and Manners] Reference

The best pellitory I ever plucked out of a wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference

Agrimony, slippery elm, pellitory-of-the-wall" ah, there it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

Or apophlegmatisms, masticatories, to be held and chewed in the mouth, which are gentle, as hyssop, origan, pennyroyal, thyme, mustard; strong, as pellitory, pepper, ginger, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

"It should be adorned on this side with roses, lilies, and the marigold; on that side with parsley, cost, fennel, southernwood, coriander, sage, savery, hyssop, mint, vine, dettany, pellitory, lettuce, cresses, and the peony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference