"Well, you are a better medicine than thoroughwort tea," said Lucia; and. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
Make a strong tea of the thoroughwort -- strain it, and when cool, put to. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
Take the leaves of motherwort and thoroughwort, and the bark of poplar root; equal parts. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
"But I had to take a big bowlful of bitter thoroughwort tea," she added, making a little face at the remembrance. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
Strings of dried apples are festooned from chamber windows; and paper bags of catnip and spearmint and thoroughwort and penny-royal and mullen hang drying on the garret walls. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
The bitters will keep good almost any length of time, and is an excellent remedy for bilious complaints, and can often be taken when the thoroughwort tea will not sit on the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
She drank the thoroughwort tea with convulsive gulps. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
She brewed a great bowl of thoroughwort tea and carried it up to Mehitable. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
I did not know she was near-sighted, and had not seen me drinking her thoroughwort. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Madge's Story] Reference
But first she started the kitchen fire, and made another bowl of thoroughwort tea for. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
It is more stimulating than thoroughwort (Eupatorium), and, therefore, is less applicable. 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
I think I never did it but three times; and the third time it was thoroughwort and molasses!. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Madge's Story] Reference
She had not eaten any breakfast, but her grandmother had kindly made her some thoroughwort tea. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
"I should have given her a good bowl of thoroughwort tea, when she went to bed," said her grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
"The kitchen fire isn't out yet; I can steep some thoroughwort now," said Aunt Susy, and she forthwith started. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
"Don't go worryin ', Mary, an' start to brew him some thoroughwort in the hope of havin 'him down with a fever.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Between] Reference
She had heard that thoroughwort was growing in considerable quantity in the old pastures at "Dresser's Lonesome.". From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
"Wormwood -- thoroughwort -- spearmint," she mused, as she touched them, one after another, and inhaled their fragrance. From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference
I suppose she thought my guilt would bring its own punishment, for she probably knew the thoroughwort would make me sick. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Madge's Story] Reference
Says I, "Cease instantly, or my sickness will increase; for such talk is like thoroughwort or lobelia to my moral stomach.". From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician] Reference
I thought it had a crazy taste, like the thoroughwort, and was sorry Zed had a liver inside him, and wished that his mother hadn't found it out. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Madge's Story] Reference
But they knew where thoroughwort grows, and the wholesome goldthread; they gathered cress and peppermint, and could tell the mushroom from its noisome kindred. From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference
One says that it is yellow-dock, another that it is bittersweet, another that it is slippery-elm bark, burdock, catnip, calamint, elicampane, thoroughwort, or pennyroyal. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
As they searched for thoroughwort, and picked the tender spruce and pine tips, they all talked of the coming May-day, but Amos soon began to look about for a good place to make his fire. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Province Town] Reference
There isn't anything better than a bowl of good, hot, thoroughwort tea. ". From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
"Why, stayin 'out in that rain-storm has give him the most jeeroosly cold there's been sence Aunt Jerushy recommended thoroughwort tea!. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
"I'll steep up some thoroughwort; a good cup of herb tea will soon send off your headache," said Mrs. Weston, "and you had best go back to bed. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
That was the day I meant to git some thoroughwort over there, to dry, but I looked at the redbird flowers so long I didn't have time, an 'I never've been sence. ". From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference
Sez I, "Cease instantly, or my sickness will increase, for such talk is like thoroughwort or lobelia to my moral and mental stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha on the Woman Question] Reference
Besides, she says Lieutenant Brown would have got well if you'd minded her, and let him have plenty of thoroughwort tea, and put a split fowl at the pit of his stomach. ". From Wordnik.com. [My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches] Reference
She hated thoroughwort tea. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
Purple thoroughwort; gravel root. 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
Miss Tame smelt of the thoroughwort blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
12. thoroughwort. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
"A bowl of nice hot thoroughwort tea. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
The various species of gentian, thoroughwort, sabbatia, dogwood, poplar bark, willow, pipsissewa, or winter-green, wild cherry bark, sarracenia, etc., supply useful bitters. 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
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