I am going to call the southernwood 'appleringie' after this. From Wordnik.com. [The Story Girl] Reference
"I am going to call the southernwood 'appleringie' after this. From Wordnik.com. [The Story Girl] Reference
The "southernwood" or "old man," cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is another species of it. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
A hedge of southernwood gave off a pungent scent as I brushed against it, like a friendly, hopeful message. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
A scent of rosemary, southernwood, and verbena was wafted to him from the little garden, -- clean, old-fashioned scents, English in their very essence. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Bonbright's garden, thyme and southernwood, herbs by the path-side, clumps of brave chrysanthemums, a wandering spray or two of late-blooming honeysuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The odour of the southernwood on the window-sill changed at once to laurel, rain-drenched, dark, and waving over tombs for the boy spellbound on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
They went into a parlour with its window open, upon the window-sill a pigeon mourning among pots of wallflowers and southernwood that filled the entering air with sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The window and door were open, and the morning air brought with it a mingled scent of southernwood, thyme, and sweet-briar from the patch of garden by the side of the cottage. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
She was just tucking a bit of southernwood into her bodice, when. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender] Reference
She gathers the white southernwood, By the ponds, on the islets. From Wordnik.com. [The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3] Reference
The southernwood had strong medicinal qualities, and was used to cure. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
She gathers the white southernwood, Along the streams in the valleys. From Wordnik.com. [The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3] Reference
Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
She filled her skirt with a harvest of aromatic plants, southernwood, mint, verbenas. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
The "hyssop, or southernwood," the reader now knows to be the wild sage, or sage-brush. From Wordnik.com. [First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6] Reference
Philip felt that it was best to stop the car among the suburban groves of southernwood 307. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic City] Reference
A favorite shrub in our garden, as in every country dooryard, was southernwood, or lad's-love. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
At the corner of a little square planted with southernwood-trees in tubs, Philip called a halt. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic City] Reference
"You take some southernwood," counseled Sabrina, and he laid her hand gently down, to select his posy. From Wordnik.com. [Country Neighbors] Reference
"Yes, that was right," he said absently, and pinched a spray of southernwood that grew beside the door. From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference
Mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood are still to be found in old gardens: they stand here side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
Phoebe turned away with a little toss of her head, and he turned, too, breaking a sprig of southernwood. From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference
And she gathered up the aromatic greenery, the southernwood, the mint, the verbenas, the balm, and the fennel. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
Beverley says that is what they call it in Scotland, and I think it sounds so much more poetical than southernwood. From Wordnik.com. [The Story Girl] Reference
Then one after another he took up the herbs, southernwood and all, and bruised them to get their separate fragrance. From Wordnik.com. [Country Neighbors] Reference
Some of them I knew, such as thyme, rosemary, southernwood, lavender, catmint, balm and verbena: others were strange to me. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Beside the fruits of the earth they could have some flowers and a sprig of sage and southernwood and tansy, or lavender that had come from. From Wordnik.com. [Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches] Reference
Pitt opened a small gate, and came up to the house, through an army of balsams, hollyhocks, roses, and honeysuckles, and balm and southernwood. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
He got bits of southernwood out of the garden and stuck them in cotton-reels, which made beautiful pots, and they looked like bay trees in tubs. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic City] Reference
Thus he prattled, while I, to pay him for the southernwood, drew figures of the birds he knew best on the leaves I tore from my note - book and gave them to him. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference
She stepped forth among the flower-beds, stooping, in a passionate fervor, to the blossoms she could reach; but, coming back to the southernwood, she took it in her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference
"southernwood!" she said, -- "I smell southernwood somewhere, Rose. From Wordnik.com. [Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls] Reference
A bit of thyme, pinching here a leaf of southernwood while Bernard tells a story. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
A picture of such a boy -- the child associated in my mind with a spray of southernwood. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference
A few specimens of southernwood, mugwort, and other herbs; not for use, but from adherence to the old customs. From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
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