| 单词 | water-mint |
| 例句 | “The savor or smell of the water-mint rejoyceth the heart of man, for which cause they use to strew it in chambers and places of recreation, pleasure and repose, where feasts and banquets are made.” The Old English Herbals Was that the dried sweetness of balsam,—the pungent odor of pennyroyal and water-mint,—the clean, resinous fragrance of the pines? Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The plants and grasses he trod were the asphodels, sundew, water-mint his feet had crushed—crushed into fragrance—five-and-twenty years ago.… Merry-Garden and Other Stories Was it the damp that brought the perfumes of the moorland so distinctly toward them—the bog-myrtle, the water-mint and wild thyme? Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Thenceforward it ran by beds of sundew, water-mint and asphodel, under woods so steeply converging that the traveller upon the ridges heard it as the trickle of water in a cavern. Wandering Heath The water-mint and scorpion-grasses remain far into November, and the former scents more sweetly as the season wanes. A Cotswold Village Further seawards, or rather riverwards, at a place called "Sluis," they are fringed with wild rose and wild plum, and the ditches are deep in rushes, in willow herb, in purple nightshade, water-mint, and reeds. The Naturalist on the Thames |
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