thoroughwort
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thoroughwort
Example Sentences
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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
How to Cure Hysterics.—Take the leaves of motherwort and thoroughwort, and the bark of poplar root; equal parts.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
But catnip didn't nip his ambition and thoroughwort wuzn't thorough enough to restore his cheerfulness.
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Holley, Marietta
“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 Bassett, Sara Ware
Now it is a veritable mixing pat for the autumn colors to come, yellow with goldenrod, blue with asters, purple with Joe-Pye weed, rosy because of the hardhack, and rimmed with delicate gray-white of thoroughwort.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
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