thoroughwort
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thoroughwort
Example Sentences
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She had not eaten any breakfast, but her grandmother had kindly made her some thoroughwort tea.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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
She drank the thoroughwort tea with convulsive gulps.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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 should have given her a good bowl of thoroughwort tea, when she went to bed," said her grandmother.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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