| 单词 | wormwood |
| 例句 | The midwife led the miller’s wife back to the high soft bed and, holding her bruised face in her hands, poured a mug of wormwood tea down her throat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot of wormwood in this. It’s quite a drink,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A little bit of coyness, like wormwood, could be pleasantly intoxicating, smoothing interactions with the men. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Beetle, I must to the miller to have my oats ground to flour. Crush the bitter milkwort and boil the wormwood syrup while I am gone.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With Gauguin, he got used to drinking too much liquor, especially absinthe, the strong, green-colored liqueur made from wine and wormwood. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A classic French anise-flavored spirit, pastis was developed after absinthe was banned in 1915, and differs primarily by omitting the wormwood. Why you should get excited about anise spirits 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z It may of course symbolise any kind of excessive physical satisfaction, transmuted to gall and wormwood by Christian guilt and repentance. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z Aficionados argue as to the importance of wormwood in vermouth, and many contemporary non-European bottles often skip it in favor of alternative bittering agents. Make Vermouth the Star 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z These are all possible vermouth flavourings, along with the aromats Scothern passes round – wormwood, hyssop, chamomile, gentian, speedwell, cloves, cinnamon and liquorice. Vermouth revival: a masterclass in fortified wine 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It's named for the chief ingredient that makes it unique: artemisia absinthium, which you might know as wormwood. The folklore-filled history of absinthe 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Combine the wormwood, lemon balm, hyssop, mace blades and angelica in a tea infuser or nut-milk bag; add to the infused vodka to steep for 1 to 4 days, tasting daily to check the flavor. The age-old liqueur that will bring a wintry taste of the Alps to your glass 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Conservatives and prohibitionists spearheaded a ban on absinthe production in the early 20th century, because, they believed, one of its key ingredients, wormwood, caused hallucinations and other health problems. Pastis, a Perfect Aperitif for the Lazy Days of Summer 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Gnista, a line of nonalcoholic spirits produced in Sweden, instead uses wormwood, which is more commonly associated with absinthe and vermouth. Pleasantly Bitter and Thoroughly Grown-Up, No Alcohol Needed 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The bitter flavor of wormwood is joined by intense orange peel, a green and floral oregano blossom, floating over a deep, raisiny sweetness. The best non-alcoholic amari 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The results range from initially appalling – too heavy on the rhubarb, not enough wormwood or gentian – to not entirely terrible, as we rebalance our botanicals. Vermouth revival: a masterclass in fortified wine 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z In the absence of absinthe, quite a few anise-based spirits that didn't contain wormwood grew in popularity, but never quite hit the mass appeal of absinthe. The folklore-filled history of absinthe 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z “That’s pharmaceutical wormwood. It’s the same plant, but there’s no aroma. Now try this.” On the Absinthe Trail 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s an annual that expands with almost shrublike vigor in one season, each plant growing as high as six feet, with feathery leaves that resemble those of the wormwood. This valuable plant looks like ragweed, but allergy sufferers can breathe easy 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Mugwort, she says, is great for opening your Third Eye; wormwood helps induce visions; cinnamon raises vibrational frequencies; catnip attracts good spirits; wild lettuce can be smoked – Hopi Indians used it to induce trance states. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Both are made from white wine, caramel, and contain wormwood, the herb often found in vermouth, along with a mix of other aromats, which range from oregano to gentian and citrus. Vermouth revival: a masterclass in fortified wine 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It's absolutely wonderful straight up, in a glass big enough to sink your nose into and inhale the wonderful wormwood aroma. The best non-alcoholic amari 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z And then there’s Malort, the rudely bitter wormwood liqueur that has a hardy band of adherents in Chicago. A Quiet Drink: A Chicago Cocktail Crawl 2013-12-26T15:36:42Z These smoother, softer absinthes from an American craft distiller come in three colors and have reduced the powerful anise and bitter wormwood notes, balancing them with other botanicals such as mint, hibiscus, and poppy seeds. Why you should get excited about anise spirits 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z After, he set about making his own absinthe by finding formulas for it in old French distilling guides in the N.Y.U. library and then visiting herbalists around town for wormwood, hyssop and star anise. The Tipsy Diaries: Punch, the Drink of Dickens, Redeemed 2010-10-14T20:36:00Z Basil, mint, thyme, geraniums, marigolds, wormwood and citronella all add a little flair to your garden while also repelling pests such as wasps. To rid your property of wasps, call in the professionals 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z After adding dry vermouth and wormwood bitters, Muir shakes and strains the drink and garnishes it with a fir sprig. Ready to discard your Christmas tree? You could eat it instead. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The cleanse involved taking herbal supplements that consisted of cloves, black walnut and wormwood — the dosage of which was literally fistfuls of gelatin capsules each day. Parasite cleanses are ‘modern snake oil.’ Experts explain why. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Mugwort and wormwood, herbs also recommended in several posts, contain a compound called thujone that can cause “very difficult-to-treat refractory seizures,” he said. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z As Azzuz finished her ceremonial prayer, the wormwood that coaxed the first flames was replaced with modern “drip torches” — canisters of gasoline and diesel with spouts and wicks. For tribes, ‘good fire’ a key to restoring nature and people 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z It is also called sweet wormwood or annual wormwood, and is used as an alternative therapy - and even put into some alcoholic drinks. Coronavirus: What do we know about the artemisia plant? 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z These were definitely not roses - the fan-leafed plants reminded Xia of àicǎo, or silvery wormwood, which the Chinese burn to ward off mosquitoes. Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Lillet is a French fortified wine very like vermouth, although it differs in that it does not contain wormwood like vermouth, and does contain liqueur. You are not any weaker for ordering a shaken James Bond martini — but your martini will be 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “The idea is to use these substances from wormwood in the body to block the multiplication of the virus and at the same time make the patient’s illness milder.” COVID research into wormwood gives Bosnian herbalist a boost 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Based on that study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces are now collaborating with ArtemiLife, a U.S. company that grows sweet wormwood, to test plant extracts on SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Unproven herbal remedy against COVID-19 could fuel drug-resistant malaria, scientists warn 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Light, frequent burning of the forest understory maintains oak tree health, and the acorns and huckleberries for food, hazel and bear grass for weaving, and pepperwood and wormwood for medicine. 'Fire is medicine': The tribes burning California forests to save them 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The beetle hunters are part of a new effort to conserve both the beetle and the rare Breckland wormwood plant upon which it depends. 'Have you beetled?': the battle to save one of UK's rarest species 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z “There’s no more space here,” Sosorbaram said as she yanked stalks of flowering yellow wormwood from the ground outside her home. ‘We don’t exist’: Life inside Mongolia’s swelling slums 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z But with few treatment options, some people and companies are prepared to bet on sweet wormwood before trial results. COVID research into wormwood gives Bosnian herbalist a boost 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “There’s no more space here,” Ms. Sosorbaram said as she yanked stalks of flowering yellow wormwood from the ground outside her home. ‘We Don’t Exist’: Life Inside Mongolia’s Swelling Slums 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Moreover, yields are not huge—a mere half a milligram per gram of dried wormwood leaves. Growing anti-malaria drugs in tobacco plants 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z James Harding-Morris of Back from the Brink said: “There’s a real sense of urgency. It’s a last-chance saloon. Breckland wormwood and its beetle are now known to coexist on just one site.” 'Have you beetled?': the battle to save one of UK's rarest species 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Subsequent research identified wormwood’s primary active compound, which was eventually developed into artemisinin, one of the most successful treatments for malaria in history. Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis? 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z While Mihic uses traditional techniques to prepare tea and extracts of wormwood to sell on the internet, Bosnia’s leading pharmaceutical producer of herbal medicines is planning to launch similar products on a larger scale. COVID research into wormwood gives Bosnian herbalist a boost 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s known as wormwood, but the intricate designs are actually made by shipworms, which are really clams. Tunneling clams help a Salish Sea renaissance man make art from waterlogged timber 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Dr Kumar plans to try—though he will use genetically engineered lettuce rather than tobacco, or even wormwood, both of which are too toxic. Growing anti-malaria drugs in tobacco plants 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It is not even white America anymore, where strawberry shortcake has turned for many into wormwood. How voters’ personal suffering overtook reason — and brought us Donald Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet a recent study demonstrates that feeding rodents sweet wormwood leaves in their entirety — as opposed to a synthesized derivative — overcomes this resistance. Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis? 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The temperance movement in the early 20th century seized on the unique wormwood ingredient to get absinthe outlawed in the United States and Europe until early in this century. Five things you thought you knew about absinthe 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z First isolated from Artemisia annua or sweet wormwood over 40 years ago, artemisinin saves tens of thousands of lives every year. China's First Science Nobel Prize Exposes Stresses on Country's Research 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z ONE of the most valuable weapons in the war on malaria is artemisinin, a drug derived from the leaves of sweet wormwood. Growing anti-malaria drugs in tobacco plants 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z They found that a compound extracted from the wormwood was effective in treating malaria. Tu Youyou Becomes First Chinese Woman to Win The Nobel Prize 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z But Dr. Tu said she realized that her method of preparation — boiling the wormwood — probably damaged the active ingredient. Answering an Appeal by Mao Led Tu Youyou, a Chinese Scientist, to a Nobel Prize 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The herbs' natural sweetness is tempered by the herbal bitterness of wormwood. Five things you thought you knew about absinthe 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z She found that an extract from the sweet wormwood plant Artemisia annual was sometimes effective - but the results were inconsistent, so she went back to ancient literature, including a recipe from AD350. Work that won Nobel Prize for medicine 2015 - BBC News 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Only one of these worked against the malaria parasite—an extract derived from a plant known as Qinghao in Chinese, Artemisia annua in Latin or sweet wormwood in colloquial English. Medicine Nobel Recognizes Fights Against Malaria and River Blindness 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Tu and her team conducted research on more than 200 of the herbal medicines and later focused on sweet wormwood— a remedy cited originally in a Chinese text by the 4th Century pharmacist Ge Hong. Tu Youyou Becomes First Chinese Woman to Win The Nobel Prize 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Among 2,000 traditional Chinese recipes, she said, one compound was found to be effective: sweet wormwood, or Artemisia annua, which was used for “intermittent fevers,” a hallmark of malaria. Answering an Appeal by Mao Led Tu Youyou, a Chinese Scientist, to a Nobel Prize 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Natural artemisinin is extracted from a species of wormwood that grows in China. A new opium pipe 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z There was Purl - a mix of gin and wormwood wine, similar to vermouth. When an elephant walked on the frozen River Thames 2014-01-28T00:43:48Z At one point we did shots of something called Malört, which sounds like a Harry Potter villain but is actually a bitter wormwood liquor that’s made and sold only in Chicago. Testing the Hangover Cure at Chicago Clinic Revive 2013-02-07T22:05:01Z Many communities in Asia and Africa drink tea made from a Chinese sweet wormwood plant named Artemisia to help stave off malaria, and there is notable evidence to suggest it works. Top ten malaria innovations 2013-04-29T18:21:13Z Artemisinin is a molecule extracted from the sweet wormwood plant Artemisia annua. Drug development: Holding out for reinforcements 2012-04-25T17:21:20.517Z He’s as clever with his scalpel as his concoctions of wormwood, rosarum and menthol. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The more thou visitest me with wormwood and gall, The more will I testify to thine abounding love. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z It was not alone one well of bitterness that was opened upon him; but, in whatever direction he turned his thoughts, new gall and wormwood was poured into his cup. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Sometimes the pain was so bad I could not move smartly, and then the unmerited rebuke from a thoughtless officer was as gall and wormwood to me.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The thought was evidently wormwood to him, for his features worked convulsively, his eyes were bloodshot. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Oh, so I have," replied the other in a gayer tone; "it was only a single seed of the wormwood sprouting up again. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z He gives us a cooling, deep draught in exchange for the sugared wormwood, the sweet, exasperated poison of the Polish charmer. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The ancients had recourse to various means to counteract the effects of wine, and amongst others we find olives and olive oil, wormwood, and saffron. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But my first, my earliest joy, was Jovan; My first joy—a cup with flowers full laden, Second joy—a cup with wine o’erflowing, My third joy—a cup fill’d up with wormwood.” Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z Betty was in front of them, and Lloyd, almost stepping on her heels, could think of nothing but the remark that had changed her whole day to gall and wormwood. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z Yet I think the Archdeacon, a "new man," to whom the aristocratic Canon's popularity was wormwood, did dislike him. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z Among the products of the order, may be mentioned chicory, lettuce, the artichoke, the vegetable oyster, arnica, chamomile-flowers, wormwood, absinth, elecampane, coltsfoot, taraxacum, oil of tansy, etc. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Sage, and wormwood, sion, hyssop, borage, spikenard, dog's-tongue, our Lady's mantle, feverfew, and Faith, and all in small quantities except the last. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z He noted that currently very little artemisinin can be made from a large amount of the sweet wormwood, which is also difficult to grow. New malaria method could boost drug production 2012-02-16T12:46:03Z On the contrary, he had kept a surprise in store which was meant to be wormwood to the hapless creature. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The cup is poisoned, there is a gall and wormwood in the taste the sweet leaves behind; and again he thinks of home. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z This is closely allied to the wormwood, and by many people is called "wormwood." The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z I had not the heart to stay him; for, let him forgive me ever so, the sight of me must be wormwood to him. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Artemisinin is extracted from sweet wormwood, a plant that primarily grows in China and Vietnam and varies in its availability according to the season. New malaria method could boost drug production 2012-02-16T12:46:03Z It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z It was gall and wormwood to think of a slave occupying a seat in Congress; to think of a negro giving his ideas about the political questions of the day. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z It is indeed gall and wormwood to all Spain that the Manila defeat so nearly coincides with the proudest day in Spanish annals. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z All about were the fields she loved, fragrant with clover and wormwood, vocal with time-keeping crickets. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z If gall and wormwood are essential to the perfection of Christian theology, Dr. Eliot was singularly deficient, as a teacher of religion. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Shortly thereafter, Dr. Arnold said, Walter Reed scientists found wormwood growing on the banks of the Potomac and extracted artemisinin. For Intrigue, Malaria Drug Artemisinin Gets the Prize 2012-01-16T20:57:16Z The situation in which I had been surprised by Lady Maria was gall and wormwood to my recollection. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z He paused before the court-house with the small "jail-house" squatting in the yard and surveyed both with wormwood bitterness of unforgiving memory. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Still it was gall and wormwood to me to have to weigh each item of my disbursement. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z There are some drops of wormwood mingled with the joyous goblets quaffed daily to the Pope by the majority of 500 obsequious and courtly Latins. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z A bitter infusion, such as wormwood or camomile, requires less of the herb. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z That her car should have broken down, though ever so slightly, and his should not--that altogether inferior article, of which he was continually boasting in the most absurd manner--was gall and wormwood. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z The head is made of wormwood, and has a cap with feathers. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Thus, therefore, saith our Lord to the prophets: Behold, I will give them wormwood for their food, and gall for their drink. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z But I have retaliated upon him with my wormwood, I rather think.' The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z For sprains of any part of the muscular structure, use one of the following prescriptions:— Oil of wormwood, 1 ounce. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Come buy my wormwood and mugwort, Here’s all fine herbs of every sort. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z It is conscience that wrings the wormwood for him into every cup of sorrow. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z In that corner there grew wormwood, wild thyme and wild pinks. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z Alas! fame, once sweet as sugared pine-apple and flattery, has for a long time been nauseous to me; it tastes as bitter to me now as wormwood. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The medicinal ones are lobelia, Indian hemp, castor musk, ginseng, assafœtida, pleurisy root, Virginia snakeroot, camomile, wormwood. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z He turned his big, strong feet out of bed and sat sunk together for a moment, recalling it all, and steeping his soul in wormwood once more. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z But after that the evening excursion with Pershing became his cross and his wormwood. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z The Catalogue and Address were written by him with a pen steeped in wormwood. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z One of the plants they studied was sweet wormwood, or Artemisia annua, which was used by Chinese herbalists centuries ago to treat . Dr. Tu Youyou, Antimalarial Drug Pioneer, Earns Lasker Honor 2011-09-12T16:13:09Z Starting with 2000 traditional Chinese medicine remedies, her team made hundreds of herbal extracts and tested them in malaria-infected mice, finally settling on one made from sweet wormwood. Lasker Awards Honors for Studies of Protein Folding, Malaria Drug 2011-09-12T13:00:00Z One extract, from sweet wormwood, showed promise in mouse studies. Medical prize honors discoverer of malarial drug 2011-09-12T12:08:08Z I whispered, "you smother me, drown me in sweat, and feed me gall and wormwood!" The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z “Moodie’s” was controlled by its rightful owners, but its name was as wormwood in the prospector’s mouth, and the quondam Promised Land became a spot accursed and despised. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z What a dose of gall and wormwood was this to poor Athalia! Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z I was in a state of desperation; gall and wormwood were in my heart. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z The gall and wormwood had been sweetened then by the birth, in merciful coincidence with that loss, of his twin children. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z He rebukes those that "turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth," Amos v. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z Tfu! something has seized me by the throat and holds me," said Zagloba; "and it is as bitter in my mouth as wormwood, and there they are firing continually. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z This was gall and wormwood to the "young ladies," for their faces were just such as you would suppose were made out of those two ingredients, and they were true indications of their minds. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z Here, too, are sweet marjoram, rosemary, and rue; so also bay and thyme, and some pot-herbs whose use is forgotten, besides southernwood and wormwood. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The name of Dennis Deventer set his eyes ablaze, and the idea of his family sitting down to a comfortable meal in spite of their isolation from markets was to him gall and wormwood. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z B. Then, if a Byzantine should be your guest, Steep all you offer such a man in wormwood. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z "You are strewing wormwood over this blissful hour." A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z To such favored souls He sends an angel with the cup of wormwood and wherever it flees and hides--he finds it. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z My tongue is supposed to be dipped in wormwood, nobody expects anything pleasant from me, and the weak points in the Denhams constitute my special hobby. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z This letter was wormwood to Mr. Cartwright from one end to the other. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z All this part of the steppe is bare of wood, and the salt sandy waste is only spotted here and there with pools of water and patches of wormwood. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z As little wormwood," she replied, "as any gift that a man may enjoy without envy and without conceit. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z She fancied that a dark wing brushed by the carriage window, as if the death angel were flying by with the cup of wormwood of which Freyer had once spoken! On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z "One should never ask for a woman's reasons, and I think I have informed you already that my tongue is dipped in wormwood." By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The mere suggestion of such a thing was gall and wormwood. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z But there was no moisture in his eye; the wormwood of conscience embitters even sorrow. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z "Surprisingly!" exclaimed Laertes: "it seems as if nothing else had ever such a tang of wormwood in it." Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z And in truth the unhappy woman, while reading the descriptions of this year's performances, felt as if she were drinking a cup of wormwood drop by drop. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z There was Beryl, lonely in that building over yonder, and he himself a dejected outcast, with the future holding not a ray of hope, and the past only gall and wormwood. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z The Elder’s tone was as essence of gall and wormwood. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Now I have other tests, and can value an old acquaintance of this kind for its picturesqueness, though its apples be bitter as wormwood. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z The position of humiliation in which Mark's conduct had placed him was gall and wormwood to him, and he was fast working himself into a temper of the Texas style. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z There are such expressions as "gall and wormwood"; there are adjectives involving such qualifications of taste as "acrid," "nauseous," "sharp," "tangy," "stinging," "rough," and "gamy." From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z It was bad enough to be held up, but to be held up by a woman was gall and wormwood to their reckless natures. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z Bitter!" answered the countess, "ay, and so bitter that, in comparison, wormwood is sweet and rue savoury! The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z The idea that Augustus Cheffington might ever come to enjoy them was gall and wormwood to their present owner. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z The gall and wormwood of that thought were intolerable. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z Where the floor had been the grass was growing; wormwood was in the settle nook, and whinberries had ripened and rotted on the hearth. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z He knew that his reign in charge of his prisoner was over, and the thought was as gall and wormwood to him. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z I would rather not go; it will be wormwood to me; you know what it will be: the two together. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z Zadig found by experience, that the first month of marriage, as it is written in the book of Zend, is the moon of honey, and that the second is the moon of wormwood. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z “In the honey flowing from thy lips there is much wormwood,” put in Sarah. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z If Dan's humiliation down to this moment had not been gall and wormwood to his proud and stubborn spirit the fault did not lie at the door of Quayle the Gyke. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Your coffee's not so bad—you may make it next time just a degree stronger, bitter as wormwood and verjuice, please—black and bitter, ma'am, as English prejudice. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z I had hardened my heart by this time, and whatever qualms I had felt before, I was resolved now to spare her no drop of the wormwood that would be for her good. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z To have Mona be a witness of her defeat is gall and wormwood to her. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z It was gall and wormwood to the Canadians to think these guns should be lost, and they were eager to recover them. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z The spectacle was gall and wormwood to them, and they made no secret of their intention to wrest this vast empire from its present holders when the time was ripe. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z The knowledge that he had been regarded as cowardly in declining to go on the eleven was gall and wormwood to him. Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z But the devil always finds out a way to pour his drop of wormwood into the cup of happiness. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z It was gall and wormwood; and he, her father, had sold her husband and his grandchildren! The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z “Why, that old sailboat of yours is just a mess of wormwood!” Guilt of the Brass Thieves 2011-01-04T03:01:18.213Z It has turned a great deal of the milk of human kindness to gall and wormwood. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Now this was gall and wormwood to me. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z But the evident aversion of the maiden to the rude forester was indeed gall and wormwood to him, and roused him to stop her progress homeward. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z A bitterness as of wormwood rose up in her, tainting everything; she flung herself on her bed, in her loneliness, heart-broken, in utter anguish, and cursed her life, cursed God, in helpless woe. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z It must not be inferred that Harrison was embittered by the wormwood of failure. The Law of Hemlock Mountain These things were wormwood to his spirit, and he repented that he had built his house in a neighbourhood where he was known. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Now, to meet with a rival in the person of his uncle's gamekeeper was gall and wormwood to Richard de Chevron. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z Over the past, and all its madness, Its wine and wormwood, hopes and fears, That never were worth a moment's sadness. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy Sinners, whose love can ne’er forget The wormwood and the gall; Go, spread your trophies at His feet, And crown Him Lord of all. The Story of Our Hymns Harrison, recently returned from his Southern trip, thought truculently of that nearby office in which 251 Trabue was also receiving telegraphic information, and he writhed in the wormwood of chagrin. The Law of Hemlock Mountain His passion of love has turned to bitterness, to wormwood. The Man Who Rose Again The girls made their way gingerly over a freshly-prepared bed of young cabbages to the borderland where rhubarb and horse-radish merged into wormwood and ragwort. The School by the Sea There wormwood, sage wine, elecampane, quince and lemon drinks, with hippocras, were to clear the heads and stomachs of the drinkers; for for one and all there was the devil to pay. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim And in their love, that night, they mingled the wormwood of what they both were suffering, each seeking consolation for life's sorrows in the other.... Majesty A Novel I know that after that it was all wormwood for them both. The Key to Yesterday He talked of an emperor, captive to court intrigue, and slowly the lad's eyes, which had been until now too preoccupied with his own wormwood to think of other matters, began to liven into interest. The Tempering And they shall use little and careful meats and comb their heads and drink wormwood before they take food. The Old English Herbals "The wormwood star had fallen on every thing and turned the waters to bitterness." History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 And the hints of this that came to the master's ears were to him bitter as wormwood. The New Gulliver and Other Stories It was gall and wormwood to feel that after all he had been working and planning for the advantage of Copley. Hard Pressed If I died, should I still live and be I, bearing my wormwood with me? The Day of His Youth A salve against the elfin race and nocturnal goblin visitors: take wormwood, lupin.... The Old English Herbals “A speedy and a sovereign remedy, The bitter wormwood, sage and marigold.” The Women of Tomorrow The relations between the sheriff and the ranch were not as cordial as they might have been, and the asking of this favor was gall and wormwood to the foreman and his outfit. The Orphan This man rode along the line, examining the prisoners with an air and look which were gall and wormwood to us. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion The very firmness and resolution she had displayed were as gall and wormwood to her recollections. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt In the gloom and solitude of the forest, “where the bitter wormwood stood pale grey” and where “the hoar stones lay thick,” the black, giant elves had their dwelling. The Old English Herbals The fact that he himself had been unable to lift one finger to assist Myzukulwa against the common foe was gall and wormwood to Grenville. Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa They that turn justice to wormwood, and abase righteousness to the earth! The Bible Story All the boys and girls now made him drink out of their glasses; but the wine tasted of wormwood. Black Forest Village Stories “The recent exposures,” Mr. Gladstone wrote to Lord Russell, “have been gall and wormwood to me from day to day.” The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) But to beg a favour from that source was gall and wormwood to Gordon. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients But force no wormwood to his fevered lips; His hand is pulseless, and will soon be cold; His life was shadow; and his death—eclipse. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation Why gall and wormwood in a throat Designed for hydromel! The Song of the Wolf The gall and wormwood of her present feelings were somewhat abated. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 But the words and the attentions of the stranger were as daggers in the ears, and as wormwood in the heart of Andrew. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III Mediocrity, meanness, ugliness, are fit subjects for art only when they can be made to serve a higher purpose, just as the sole reason for tasting wormwood is the improvement of health. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy "Another dream for the Queen to sigh over," she commented with a quick laugh, flavored of wormwood. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch You may fancy all that followed; and we can only assure all who are doubtful, that, under judicious management, cases of this kind may be disposed of without wormwood or boneset. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The passing of the days is like wormwood in the mouth.... The Forerunners The reader need hardly be told that this was wormwood to the Countess. Lady Anna The sight of the happy lovers was gall and wormwood to their envious hearts. Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday It had been gall and wormwood for him when Fred had made the touchdown. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out In his appearance, speech, and manners, he bore broad marks of his origin, which were gall and wormwood to my uncle Adam. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) My well-beloved Henriette's last adventure has turned my fortune into bitterest gall, and plain unvarnished wormwood forms the finish of my interior, for she is gone! Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman But all this was wormwood to Mr. Moss. The Landleaguers They who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast righteousness to the earth. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 All this was gall and wormwood to Brown, who pursued Macdonald with a malignity which has no parallel in our happier times. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion It had eaten into her flesh like a canker, and had turned her heart into wormwood. The Broom-Squire Because of its bitterness it is often called wormwood. Trail Tales With wormwood am I fed by the Lord, in order to prove me; and in vain do I supplicate him to let this cup of bitterness pass away from me. Pepita Ximenez His days were mixed of honey and wormwood; sweet because of Amaryllis, absinthe because of his weakness. Amaryllis at the Fair Another rhyme, however, in which rue appears, has a more practical note: 'What savour is better, if physicke be true, For places infected, than wormwood and rue?' Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colors, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) It may easily be conceived that all this was gall and wormwood to the Baroness Banmann. Is He Popenjoy? To know how completely Morgan had outwitted him was like gall and wormwood to him. Raiding with Morgan The saline draughts of Riverius are supposed to owe their antiemetic effects to the air, which is separated from the salt of wormwood during the act of effervescence. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air For disinfecting purposes wormwood and rue were used sometimes together, and sometimes separately. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Boneset, wormwood and catnip had their places on the wall, together with ears of corn and strings of dried apples. The Strollers This was wormwood to the wretched husband, and yet he could not answer with angry, self-reliant indignation, while his brother was lying almost motionless before him. Is He Popenjoy? On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition This was wormwood and gall to the parent, but he did not spare himself. A Waif of the Mountains O carnal desire, Thou tempting, consuming and treacherous fire, That catches like tinder and scorches like flame, Consigning the victim to sorrow and shame, Thy honeyest potion is wormwood and gall; ’Tis vanity all! Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark He struggles to hide the feelin', but any one can tell that the very sight of Tutt is wormwood to him. Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories He had to live on her money, which galled him, and to be assisted by the Dean's money, which was wormwood to him. Is He Popenjoy? This conclusion, so consoling to the departing soul, was gall and wormwood to the worldly ministers. Pius IX. And His Time They should have curds, green cheese parings cut small, and bread and milk with chopped wormwood in it. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families This is a bitter ingredient in their cup of wormwood, a more terrible thing in their terrible doom. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors This reminder of his candidate's defeat was wormwood to the Parnass, spoiling all his satisfaction in the sermon. Ghetto Comedies We observed also a species of Chenopodium and of Artemisia or wormwood; abundance of the Pe-tsai, and other common culinary vegetables. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton Make a good brew, Goody, make a good brew—amber and nitre and wormwood—vinegar and quinces and myrrh—with wormwood, camphor, and the fresh flowers of the camomile. Harding's luck Wet the injured part, and lay on some salt of wormwood; then rub it, without diluting it with more water. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Old affections had curdled into wormwood bitterness, but if the woman told the truth, her narration altered all that. The Roof Tree The bruised wrist was to be bound up with the old-fashioned remedy of wormwood and hot vinegar. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The thought that the efforts of years might come to naught was bitter as wormwood to him. When Dreams Come True To his taste, both God and neighbor are bitter as gall and wormwood. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Articles which in their purest state are of an equivocal character, and never to be trusted without caution, are thus converted into decided poisons.—Another way of making wormwood ale. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families You may also have a great fire in your room, burn juniper in the four corners, surround yourself with imperial vinegar, with rue and wormwood. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Being asked, What he thought of the world? he answered, "It is more bitter than gall or wormwood." Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies I have neither the wit nor the wormwood required for that. Famous Women: George Sand Far be it from me to cast new bitters in the gall and wormwood waters of sectional prejudice. The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. If a little salt of wormwood be taken with it, this diet drink will act as a diuretic, as well as a purgative. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The Jew trembled, and partly rose from his seat; while Zillah, whose love had turned to hate—whose affection had become as wormwood—stood erect as he advanced, with a pale but firm look. The Buccaneer A Tale From that time his care was more unobtrusive, 168 but Francis was still conscious of it, and it was gall and wormwood to her. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Losing always hurt him dreadfully—it would be gall and wormwood to have lost to such a winner. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Bitter vegetables in decoctions and in dry powders, applied externally, as Peruvian bark, oak bark, leaves of wormwood, of tansey, camomile flowers or leaves. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life When caterpillars attack fruit trees, they may be destroyed by a strong decoction of equal quantities of rue, wormwood, and tobacco, sprinkled on the leaves and branches while the fruit is ripening. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The name was wormwood to him, and this was quite sufficient to give it melody in her ears. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm The bitterness of his inferiority and servitude was as wormwood within him. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Such times were wormwood and gall to Smith; yet in his heart he never doubted but that he would have Dora and her love in the end. 'Me--Smith' Therefore thus saith the Lord404 the God of Israel, Behold I will give them wormwood to eat and the waters of poison to drink. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 Brew it as for other ale, omitting the hops; and when the liquor boils, put in half a bushel of fine wormwood, a bushel of scurvy grass, and twelve pounds of sugar. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families It is a cup of gall and wormwood, but I’ll take it. The Pagan Madonna The cup of gall and wormwood has obviously been lifted to his lips and to the last drop he has been compelled to drink it. When Winter Comes to Main Street There is no indication that hysop, wormwood, and mallows called for during the New York crisis were ever found to be suitable replacements for any of the capital articles. Drug Supplies in the American Revolution His characters, at certain moments, seem actually to spit gall and wormwood, as they tug at the quivering roots of one another's self-esteem. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Boil two ounces each of camomile flowers, and the tops of wormwood, in two quarts of water. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Would you could read the heart you say is hard, Princess, to see what wormwood your hate blends With all its rapture. Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts To a Gaelic gentleman like him the Sassenach name he used for a convenience was gall and wormwood. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 It was gall and wormwood, but there you were. The Place of Honeymoons The thought that I, who was a vulgar spy by profession, had committed a mistake worthy of a novelist's policeman, was gall and wormwood to me. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Aside from his wormwood business jealousy of me, Silas Trimmer has wanted this Grand Street entrance to his store for more than the third of a century; now he has it. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man Think how he shattered my life and wrecked my happiness, when he enticed you with the golden apple, that rots and decays, turning to wormwood between the lips! When the Birds Begin to Sing The satirists of the golden age of the Latin people dipped their stili, metaphorically, in gall and bitter wormwood and berated the effeminate nobility time and again. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Thus adjured, Sam made a virtue of necessity, and, shutting his eyes, gulped down the wormwood. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets All right, of course, from her standpoint, but from his, gall and wormwood to his proud spirit. The Search Temperance kept fires of sweet herbs burning in the garden, and insisted on every body swallowing liberal doses of brick and wormwood, fasting, in the morning—her sovereign remedy against infection. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Hard water spoils the color of vegetables; a pinch of pearlash or salt of wormwood will prevent that effect. A Poetical Cook-Book He could bear them with patience when they were alone, but in Philip's presence they were as gall and wormwood, and whips and scorpions. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 "The wormwood did you good," said Mrs. Hopkins, drily. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Might there not be an irresistible desire to quaff a last, long, breathless draught of the cup of wormwood and aloes, with which nearly all her years of womanhood had been perpetually flavored? The Scarlet Letter His had been quaffed too quickly, and he found The dregs were wormwood; but he filled again, And from a purer fount, on holier ground, And deemed its spring perpetual—but in vain! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Dink, of course, perceiving the hesitation, went out gleefully, persuaded that the decision was gall and wormwood to his inveterate foe. The Varmint "Give it brimstone and treacle and a cupful of wormwood and camomile." The Manxman A Novel - 1895 At supper the wormwood seemed to give him additional appetite. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Moreover, between the latter and the ruin, the ground was thickly studded with aloe plants and bushes of wild wormwood. The Tiger Hunter A dozen times in the last fortnight had I spoken of myself as inferior to my brother, but for another to say it was wormwood and gall to me. Roger Trewinion The wreath of wormwood was his, and the statue of brass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 When his parents found they could not change his purpose, their affection for him forced them into outward acquiescence, but their reluctant condescension was gall and wormwood to me. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 The doctor wanted some wormwood, and thinking I had heard the people speak of it, I asked Elsie. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) In those days adulteration was practiced, for wormwood and quassia were found as substitutes. James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 But that they should know at all the shameful charge which had broken his father’s heart, and brought temporary suspicion and dishonour on his name, was gall and wormwood to him. St. Winifred's, or The World of School It was but a poor rest for them—with neither grass nor water—not a blade of anything green except the artemisia plant, the wild wormwood—which, of course, neither horse nor oxen would touch. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness We had gathered a fair dish of honey, but our good Master saw it should harm us, and appointed us in the stead thereof a dish of wormwood. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary The adulterations most commonly used to give bitterness are gentian, wormwood, and quassia; to impart pungency, ginger, orange-peel, and caraway. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Thou, O Lord, hast given me wormwood, and I have had some diffidence upon that; and thou hast cleared a morning to me again, and my heart is alive. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel This belief was galling to him as wormwood. St. Winifred's, or The World of School This shrub is the artemisia—a species of wild sage or wormwood,—and the plains upon which it grows are called by the hunters, who cross them, the sage prairies. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Innovations of any kind are sufficient to fill him with suspicion, and those started by the British in their first efforts at Cape government were as gall and wormwood to his untrammelled taste. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 "In the honey flowing from thy lips there is much wormwood," put in Sarah. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt On the contrary, the flesh, from the nature of its food, which is the berry of the wild wormwood, is both unsavoury and bitter. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire You have a strange nature, Kate—a mixture of steel and velvet, of wormwood and honey.” The Fighting Shepherdess He provided his army surgeons with small vials containing a decoction of wormwood, camomile, and camphor. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery After a weary drag of several hundred yards, I came opposite to a small clump of wormwood bushes growing out of the bank. The Scalp Hunters Let the honey," replied Dagon, sitting down, "be for thee and let the wormwood poison my heart. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt There was balm in abundance, and two or three gigantic peonies, in their season the admiration of all passers by; and beds of useful herbs, wormwood and sage, and summer savory. Janet's Love and Service He made a very strong decoction of wormwood, and for a slight offence, poured one spoonful down their throats: for a more serious one, he made them take two. Diary in America, Series One The wax might make the plaster stick, but it might be feared that the honey and the incense would neutralize the good effects to be expected from the wormwood and salt. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Helen’s unaffected terror, her repulsion and flight were wormwood and gall to his pampered vanity and starving love. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel It is annoying that this ingenious naturalist who has already given us more useful works and has still others in preparation, uses for this odious task, a pen dipped in gall and wormwood. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I And by way of a morsel of sugar at after the wormwood, I will tell thee I do not think Clare hates him. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada He soon came up with him, and yelled in his ear, "I'll teach you to spit your wormwood in my cup of sorrow." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 She loved him so truly that this must have been gall and wormwood to her sensitive heart. Mary Wollstonecraft This was true, in the letter, but not in the spirit—and, young as she was, she knew and felt it, and the wormwood of remorse gave bitterness to her tears. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel I suppose I shall forget all these groups—and, colours, and expressions, in time—that is the gall and the wormwood of seeing beauty; I'd fain remember them longer and more vividly than I do. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Mullein and nettle, henbane and wormwood, all are English emigrants. Home Life in Colonial Days God knows I never wanted to take his money, and when it was grudgingly given it was worse than gall and wormwood to have to ask him for it. An American Suffragette The supper, with its merry chat, was gall and wormwood to her. Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge It must have been gall and wormwood to Sir Francis to be compelled to forward these documents to the Colonial Office. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion And all this was gall and wormwood to Jack. The Lady of the Ice A Novel Its naturally rich fields were grown up to scrub pines, mugworts and wormwood. Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 Why had she spat out as gall and wormwood the sweet morsel she had rolled under her tongue? Hubert's Wife A Story for You "I did," with changed air, "and gall and wormwood it is to me, a truster in man; to me, a philanthropist." The Confidence-Man To them this was gall and wormwood, because it was for the life of Christ they were thirsting, and they well knew that imprisonment or beating with rods was as far as they could go. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion The very name of Nazarene1040 Was wormwood to his Paynim spleen. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 What I had unconsciously said regarding my master’s voice, was wormwood to him. Rattlin the Reefer This state of matters was as gall and wormwood to Ada. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life Down into the valley pours the dust, swept from the surface of the upper plain, along with it the leaves and stalks of the wild wormwood, with other weeds of the desert. The Lone Ranche I seemed to be feeding on ashes, and drinking wormwood. Nearly Lost but Dearly Won V. 11, "And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 It was gall and wormwood to feel sure that Emily had laughed and made merry over a message addressed to a Briskett, from a member of her own house! Flaming June He hoped great things for you, and it is wormwood and gall to his proud spirit to see you struggling along in cheap lodgings. Big Game A Story for Girls It had been gall and wormwood to me. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story And the worst—the gall, the wormwood of it—was that this despised foe had silenced him—nay, had silenced him almost contemptuously. Major Vigoureux I have an idea that something more potent than gall and wormwood is required to express their feelings. Lloyd George The Man and His Story When—supposing he ever married, it would be wormwood and gall to see his wife condemned by his friends! Flaming June While it will be gall and wormwood to our wife or husband. Fantasia of the Unconscious Turn not from his griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray. 2Follow to the judgment-hall, View the Lord of life arraigned: O the wormwood and the gall! Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination I, who once bore the burden of life, know its sorrows and temptations, its wormwood and its gall. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author On such appointments all the wormwood and gall of the old party hatred ooze out. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. There were four of them leading the parade, displaying the wealth that stood for the bonanza of the silver strike they had just made, four men whose names were gall and wormwood to Robert Fairchild. The Cross-Cut This man was telling the meeting his bitter sorrow, and how he had drunk of the wormwood and gall of repentance, and as he spoke tears ran chasing each other down his face. Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow "What is this?" he asked of the Angel beside him; and the Angel said, "It is wormwood!" The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables The allusion to Richard Clyde, the revelation of Mr. Regulus' romantic attachment, even the playful remarks of Dr. Harlowe relative to his wife's jealousy, were gall and wormwood, embittering the feelings of Ernest. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author In all slight disorders they have recourse to these remedies, and frequently use the inner bark of the elm, star-in-the-earth, parsley, pellitory-in-the-wall, and wormwood. The Gipsies' Advocate or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of The English Gipsies It was gall and wormwood to Felix that he was unable to contradict the story in full. Cobwebs and Cables The steep descending sides of this opening in the cliff are covered with trees, bushes, wild flowers, fern, wormwood, and many other herbs, here and there contrasted with bold masses of rock or brown earth. The Annals of the Poor Commonly a threepenny loaf served me three weeks, and sometimes longer, and most of my drink was water, with wormwood steeped or bruised in it.... A Book of Quaker Saints Why put this drop of wormwood into the cup of joy? Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia Such a fact was gall and wormwood to a man of his character, and he was mean-souled enough to be vindictive. The Stowaway Girl Into the next measure of the wormwood he poured the water impetuously from the carafe, another thing I had never seen done before, and dropped two lumps of sugar into it. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont Old Tusser says:— "Where chamber is swept, and wormwood is strown, No flea for his life dare abide to be known." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure When old sins are new afflictions, when the remembrance of them is as wormwood and gall, the soul will not easily be bewitched to drink a new draught of that poisoned cup any more. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation To impart to the beer a bitter taste, the fraudulent brewer employed quassia wood and wormwood as a substitute for hops. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Surely this was gall and wormwood to the defeated trickster, who had been caught trying to defraud those who had trusted him. Dick the Bank Boy Or, A Missing Fortune His riches and power have turned to wormwood in his mouth. Swirling Waters And again:— "What savour is better, if physic be true, For places infected, than wormwood and rue." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Who does not remember that horrible Turk, Jacob Asdrubal, the Old Bailey barrister, the terror of witnesses, the bane of judges,—who was gall and wormwood to all opponents. Phineas Redux Mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood are still to be found in old gardens: they stand here side by side. Nature Near London From that hour of night and wormwood, Mr. Bayard was another individual. The President A novel The post-office was in that part of the drug-store where the herbs were kept, and the letters always had a faint smell of pennyroyal or wormwood about them. John Ward, Preacher During all of that period his peregrinations around the Maggie were as those of one for whom the sweets of existence had turned to wormwood and vinegar. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates That Mr. Bonteen should go into the Cabinet would be gall and wormwood to many brother Liberals; but gall and wormwood such as this have to be swallowed. Phineas Redux Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget The wormwood and the gall, Go, spread your trophies at His feet, And crown Him Lord of all. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes This admission was gall and wormwood to the self-love of Storri. The President A novel To Helen it was gall and wormwood, yet she was all the more determined upon keeping him. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance And that composed manner, combined with her last sentence, brought gall and wormwood to Eliza Monk. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 Mrs. W. Ay, so they say of all bitters, yet I would not be obliged to feed on gentian and wormwood. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour In spite of his quiet words there was a taste of bitterness on his lips, as though his magnanimity had turned to wormwood while he was speaking. The Miller Of Old Church The other is wormwood forced into your mouth. Roads from Rome After all the insulting remarks and bombastic prophecies of himself and Clay, Calhoun, Eustis and others, the humiliation was as gall and wormwood. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 But that this accident should occur was gall and wormwood to me. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Vaughan has described the patience of the young sufferer in two lovely lines: Thou didst not murmur, nor revile, And drank’st thy wormwood with a smile. The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History She went in, set the candle on the table, and rubbed in the cider-brandy and wormwood without a word. Madelon A Novel He was bitter, not as wormwood only, but as wormwood and gall combined. The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar. Meanwhile water diviners, well diggers and drillers add gall and wormwood to the situation. If You're Going to Live in the Country From all these causes combined, Mr. Dempster could never think of his lost client without strong irritation, and the very sight of Mr. Jerome passing in the street was wormwood to him. Scenes of Clerical Life —Well thy soul hath brooked the turning tide, With that untaught innate philosophy, Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride, Is gall and wormwood to an enemy. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Louis sat discontentedly by the fire, with his arm soaking in cider-brandy and wormwood. Madelon A Novel It would be his salvation, this farm by the roadside; for the very thought of surrendering the "La Salle" to another was wormwood and gall to Henry. The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories Fomentations of hops, or smartweed or wormwood, etc., are also good. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The man might as well think of making a fine sauce by a mixture of wormwood and aloes as an agreeable combination by joining metaphysics and Scottish law. Life of Adam Smith The thought of tame surrender was as wormwood in his mouth. The Iron Furrow Why, the very idea of pipe-clay is gall and wormwood to the taste of the Johnnies. The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels Here are some more instances: 'Thrift, thrift, Horatio'; 'Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me'; 'Come, deal justly with me: come, come'; 'Wormwood, wormwood!' Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Sprains, Ointment for.—"The bark of bittersweet with chamomile and wormwood simmered in fresh lard make an excellent ointment for sprains and swellings." Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada It was bitter as wormwood to think that his strong arm could ever hold and guide another as it held and guided his little sister. Hills of the Shatemuc But that was because he had embittered the springs of laughter in himself by the wormwood sins of his youth. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents One fast-day, however, when our Reverend Mother ordered her some special food, I found her seasoning it with wormwood because it was too much to her taste. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse We look upon sacked towns, upon ravaged territories, upon violated homes; we behold all the sweet charities of life changed to wormwood and gall. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Cloths wrung out of steaming hop, wormwood, or smartweed teas, are of benefit sometimes. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada England, what with the past and the present, is a place of bitterness to me, bitter enough to turn all her seas round to wormwood! The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II It was gall and wormwood to the old man, but it had to be swallowed. Empire Builders Report speaks otherwise; and, before George, I shall read him a wormwood lecture, when I see him. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 The wormwood must not be so much, as to discern any the least bitterness in the taste; but that the composition of it with the honey may give a quickness. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened A great many cases are helped by using hot fomentations of hops, wormwood, smartweed, etc. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada It was gall and wormwood to him that the villain should have cheated the gallows. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Take fresh tops of common wormwood, Roman wormwood, rosemary, sage, mint, and rue, of each, 3/4 oz. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants She often ate the bread of sorrow steeped in wormwood and gall. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. Seeds.—Anise; cardamom; carraway; citron; coriander; fennel; gromwell; melon; musk grains; mustard; nettle; parsley; saffron; tulip, seedy buds of; wormwood. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Fomentations of hops, smartweed, wormwood are good, even hot water over the bladder. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada She never liked it very well, she said; and then she spoke of the rubber band Ruby Ann had recommended instead of wormwood and vinegar, and of which she did not approve. The Cromptons Dried leaves of rosemary, rue, wormwood, sage, mint, and lavender flowers, each, 1/2 oz. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants "I suppose she was sick at the stomach, and so gulped them down for bitters, just as my good mother used to give me wormwood when I was weakly in the spring," said Philip, laughing. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance To-day I pine here in a chain whose gall Is bitterer than drop of wormwood brought From that salt sea where nothing lives, and all The recompense my willfulness has brought. Debris Selections from Poems Fomentations.—Of hops or wormwood or smartweed, or catnip applied frequently and hot to the affected side often bring relief. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada She'll have to keep quiet a spell; wormwood and vinegar and hot water will do the rest. The Cromptons It therefore appears that the green coloring matter of the oil of wormwood has been transferred to the oil of cloves.—Zeitschrift für Pharmacie. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants Every word of his is as gall and wormwood to her, each sentence a reminder—a reproach. The Haunted Chamber A Novel Four glasses of ale, sipped slowly, tasting of wormwood. The Voice in the Fog This may be relieved by sitting over the steam of a strong decoction of tansy, wormwood, and yarrow, and fomenting the abdomen with the same. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada There's catnip, and horehound, and spearmint, and sage, and wormwood. The Cromptons This information—if information it could be called—was nothing more nor less than wormwood and gall to the gentleman on whose ears and into whose heart it fell. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Whatever intelligence the letter may have contained, one thing seemed obvious—that it was gall and wormwood to his heart. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Jerusalem, that had for fifteen hundred years adorned herself at this time with tabrets and had gone forth in the dance of them that make merry, was drunken with wormwood and covered with ashes. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem The country through which we were now passing, was a mingling of hills, steep rocks, and valleys covered with wormwood; the stems of which shrub are nearly six inches thick, and might serve for fuel. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific But lately he has been as wormwood and gall. Jerusalem Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, 8. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Though its own waters are as salt and wormwood, it makes the clouds of heaven drop with sweetness. Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader And such praise from the Magnus's lips, under the present circumstances, was gall and wormwood to his haughty soul. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and wormwood! The Ragged Edge How like her it was, with her inquisitive bent of mind and shifting points of view, to ask a question the answering of which would be gall and wormwood to Wright! The Rustlers of Pecos County A successor to Senator Shields would be chosen by this body; and the choice of an anti-Nebraska man would be as gall and wormwood to the senior senator. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Very nice and proper it might all be, but to the one who longed to hear some word of Him whom he loved with such fresh, intense earnestness, it was as gall and wormwood. The First Soprano This was wormwood and gall to the trader and oyster-house man. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. Go and dig a grave for me, For my journey’s nearly o’er; Of life’s sweets I’ve freely drunk, Of its wormwood even more. Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century For Froude's style, that accursed style which was gall and wormwood to Freeman, "had," as he kindly admitted, "its merits." The Life of Froude Misuse may turn the sweetest sweet To loathsome wormwood, I repeat; Yea, wholesome medicine, full of grace, May prove a poison—out of place. A Wanderer in Holland One ounce of spirits of turpentine, half ounce of oil of spike, half ounce essence of wormwood, half ounce castile soap, half ounce gum camphor, half ounce sulphuric ether, half pint alcohol, and wash freely. The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses He felt again the icy shock, the death and wormwood in his soul. Lewis Rand This growing habit of skulking was gall and wormwood. The Goose Girl Moreover the loss of the Acadian peninsula had been gall and wormwood to her; and in losing it she had lost great material advantages. Montcalm and Wolfe To make up for her kindness to us Jim and me tried to do little odd jobs about the house for Mrs. Dawkins, but somehow it all turned to wormwood. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 "Sweet in the mouth as honey, but in the belly bitter as wormwood and gall." Notes on the Apocalypse The circumstance that after their triumph over Italy the world's trustees were thus publicly flouted by a little state of eastern Europe was gall and wormwood to them. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference They brought forward men that were utter wormwood to all his feelings, and they paid no more respect to him and his friends on such occasions than they did to the meanest creature living. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 The gall and wormwood that filled his soul was not to be measured by words. Truxton King A Story of Graustark I went to see her this morning to drink a cup of wormwood wine with her. The Touchstone of Fortune How to Destroy Black Ants.—A few leaves of green wormwood, scattered among the haunts of these troublesome insects, is said to be effectual in dislodging them. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 To admit defeat was gall and wormwood to him. Gordon Keith What melancholy Plutarch shall arise to record, with a pen dipped in wormwood, the History of Failure? The End of the World A Love Story The wormwood in it was that she would have been perfectly willing to extend the olive if she had only known.... V. V.'s Eyes "No, no, I shall never again drink wormwood," protested Frances. The Touchstone of Fortune Liver Complaint.—Make a strong tea of syrup of burdock, wormwood and dandelion, equal parts, and drink freely. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 He was but a boy, and his defeat was gall and wormwood to him. Gordon Keith An invaluable remedy for a sprain or bruise is wormwood boiled in vinegar and applied hot, with enough cloths wrapped around it to keep the sprain moist. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home I had just remarked, I believe, that I was a melancholy man, for ever drinking "the sweet wormwood of my sorrows." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 They say that all nature is smiling and gay, And the birds the most happy of all, But the sparrow, pursued by the sparrowhawk, Savors more of the wormwood and gall. Mountain idylls, and Other Poems A Wonderful Liniment.—Two ounces oil of spike, two ounces origanum, two ounces hemlock, two ounces wormwood, four ounces sweet oil, two ounces spirit of ammonia, two ounces gum camphor, two ounces spirits turpentine. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 After a temporary uplifting in marriage the soul is again dragged down, marriage vows are broken and the blessings of home life are turned into wormwood and gall. Youth and Sex The second damsel now flung over to me Circe flowers; then, a faded jonquil, buried in a tuft of wormwood leaves. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The bitter gall and wormwood of failure was the sad and gloomy portion of these seventy and seven souls. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 SINGER, to show that "eisell" was wormwood, is, I fear, more ingenious than satisfactory. Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 She knew that she was beautiful according to the standards of her own people and her isolation from the swirl of the world's social life was to her gall and wormwood. In the Clutch of the War-God "It is the dress he cannot bear," whispered Laxart distressfully to me, "it is as gall and wormwood to him to see his daughter go about in the garb of a man." A Heroine of France It left Ryder with the bitter taste of blame in his mouth, the gall and wormwood of blame and a baffled defeat. The Fortieth Door Green wormwood bruised is excellent for a fresh wound of any kind. The American Frugal Housewife It is quite true that wormwood wine and beer were ordinary beverages, as wormwood bitters are now; but Hamlet would have done little in challenging Laertes to a draught of wormwood. Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 It was as galling and bitter as a taste of wormwood. Best Russian Short Stories And it was as harsh and as bitter as wormwood in the mouth. The Darling and Other Stories These camels can subsist very well for two or three days without water, feeding on thistles, wormwood, magdalene, and other coarse weeds they find by the way. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 In winter, when wormwood is dry, it is necessary to soften it in warm vinegar, or spirit, before it is bruised, and applied to the wound. The American Frugal Housewife Well, I didn't find it wormwood, and replied, with my untutored Redhorse heart in my throat, "I—I shall be pleased to do anything." The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians I have drank the sparkle and foam, and the gall and wormwood of all liquors. Fifteen Years in Hell Her lips are blistered by the wormwood, and in her fevered glance there is despair. Promenades of an Impressionist See the surging, tossing mass of human barks and hear their wail of disappointment as the sweet, golden waters turn to bitter wormwood and gall. Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians But this careless, easy, limpid, smooth, natural, pleasant, and agreeable flow of chat was nothing but gall and wormwood to the listener above. The American Baron It is useful also to the gardener to have anise, mustard, and wormwood.... Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The Act of 1903 had the cordial support of a small minority of Nationalists; but to the majority it was gall and wormwood. Is Ulster Right? The nest was placed in a wormwood bush, and was supported between several slender upright shoots, to which the exterior of the nest was more or less attached. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Instead of nice fruit, there is bitter wormwood growing among the grass, and when the cows eat it, their milk becomes bitter. Far Off But Jackson drew from the experience only gall and wormwood. The Reign of Andrew Jackson Arouse yourself, Balance your mind more evenly, and hunt For honey in the wormwood. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini Sage and wormwood were seen everywhere, and on the streams we found larkspur, aconite, little white daisies and lungwort, lupines and the ever-present sunflower. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 Wild greens were plentiful; some resembled those at the Cape of Good Hope, "and may be used in place of wormwood;" others were long and saltish, and like sea parsley. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Yes, yes, with wormwood water; you shall taste Some of it presently. The White Devil Lincoln turned his face toward the boy standing under the flickering gas-jet and reading with soft, sliding inflections the words which had for twenty-four hours been gall and wormwood to his memory. The Perfect Tribute After three days—days in which Gabriel plumbed the bitterest depths of Hell and drank full draughts of gall and wormwood—the verdict came. The Air Trust As for England, the thought of it, with her father's heart and her father's door closed against her, was bitter as wormwood to Mrs. Browning. Robert Browning Theirs had been a cheerless boyhood; shifted about from pillar to post, with poverty their one sure companion, they had tasted of the wormwood in advance of their years. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings "Ripley seems to think that money is made and supplied to him just in order that he may rub gall and wormwood into those whom he doesn't like!" The High School Boys' Canoe Club Take a handful each of balm of southernwood, origanum, wormwood, calamint, bay berries and marjoram, and four drachms of juniper berries; make a decoction of these in water, and use this for fomentations and infusions. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Parish Papers Truly, it was sweet as honey in the mouth, and suddenly became bitter as wormwood in the belly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Even this humble allusion to so great an insult was wormwood to him. A Perilous Secret I hope I shall never become gall and wormwood, in any event, like some old folks. Miriam Monfort A Novel If it is caused by erosion, and salt phlegm, prepare with syrup of violets, wormwood, roses, citron peel, succory, etc. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy But alas!--for I well remember--every line was written with gall and wormwood. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Sea wormwood has long supplied its place in the markets, and been in general mistaken for it. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II The baffled schemers drank wormwood too; but they bore it differently. A Perilous Secret To make Wormwood Cakes:—Take one pound of double-refin'd sugar sifted; mix it with the whites of three or four eggs well beat; into this drop as much chymical oil of wormwood as you please. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine This nickname is gall and wormwood to Gertrude, but I can't quite hold with her whims on the subject of names. Vandemark's Folly The cherries are bitter as wormwood and sour as you in your worst moods. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Roman wormwood is less ungrateful than either of the others: its smell is tolerably pleasant: the taste, though manifestly bitter, scarcely disagreeable. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Thereupon the iron had entered into Mrs. Pumpelly's soul and her life had become wormwood and gall, ashes in her mouth and all the rest of it. By Advice of Counsel Breton, in his "Fantasticks," 1626, under January, recommends a draught of ale and wormwood wine mixed in a morning to comfort the heart, scour the maw, and fulfil other beneficial offices. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine It was gall and wormwood to think of it. Vandemark's Folly BEETS.—The beets came up, little red-veined leaves, struggling for breath among a tangle of Roman wormwood and garlic; and though they exhibited great tenacity of life, they also exhibited great irregularity of purpose. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 And as he strode along the highway, his heart overflowed with the bitterness of gall and wormwood. Brave Tom The Battle That Won With him, tyrant and father were synonymous, and he has drawn the old Cenci, in the play of that name, with the same fierce, unfilial pencil, dipped in blood and wormwood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 It is brown and bare; for, except during a few short weeks in spring, the sparse bunch-grass is sear and yellow, and the silver gray of the wormwood lends an added dreariness to the landscape. Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People Blood is thicker than water, but, if it flow too far from conventional channels, may turn to gall and wormwood. The Marrow of Tradition As it is, I drop a natural tear, and pass on to THE FLOWER-GARDEN.—It appeared very much behind time,—chiefly Roman wormwood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Small wonder he smoked gall and wormwood in his cigarettes that night. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth If you love me, go and fetch me a little conserve of Roman wormwood and mithridate. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire But scarcely had he drunk a very little of the water when he became worse than before, for it was as bitter as wormwood. Grimm's Fairy Stories In spite of the fact that the population of Wellington was two thirds colored, this state of things was gall and wormwood to the defeated party, of which the Morning Chronicle was the acknowledged organ. The Marrow of Tradition We have not yet forgotten the wormwood and gall of the last revolution. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. But its being the same wormwood was not all, for beside it there was a horse's track partly snowed over. Master and Man There's wormwood, woodsorrel, masterwort, zedoary, and angelica; and lastly, there is a little bottle of the sovereign preservative against the plague, as prepared by the great Lord Bacon, and approved by Queen Elizabeth. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire He hath filled me with bitterness—He hath made me drunken with wormwood.’ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall I have summoned you here to witness it, because I know it will be gall and wormwood to you! Martin Chuzzlewit There's worse than wormwood in your speech, You livid, living libel! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens |
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