thoroughwort
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thoroughwort
Example Sentences
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But first she started the kitchen fire, and made another bowl of thoroughwort tea for Mehitable.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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 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 by Anonymous
The girls and the mother dug and sold dandelion greens, dock, 32 and thoroughwort and other old-fashioned simples.
From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind
I did not know she was near-sighted, and had not seen me drinking her thoroughwort.
From Aunt Madge's Story by May, Sophie
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 Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends by Fern, Fanny
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