thoroughwort
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thoroughwort
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She had heard that thoroughwort was growing in considerable quantity in the old pastures at "Dresser's Lonesome."
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
I think I never did it but three times; and the third time it was thoroughwort and molasses!
From Aunt Madge's Story by Sophie May
“Don’t go worryin’, Mary, an’ start to brew him some thoroughwort in the hope of havin’ him down with a fever.”
From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett
She drank the thoroughwort tea with convulsive gulps.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Why, stayin' out in that rain-storm has give him the most jeeroosly cold there's been sence Aunt Jerushy recommended thoroughwort tea!
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
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