1 She drugged the wine with an herb that banishes all care, sorrow, and ill humour.
2 Take this herb, which is one of great virtue, and keep it about you when you go to Circe's house, it will be a talisman to you against every kind of mischief.
3 As he spoke he pulled the herb out of the ground and shewed me what it was like.
4 My eyes became accustomed to the light and to perceive objects in their right forms; I distinguished the insect from the herb, and by degrees, one herb from another.
5 He gathered here and there a herb, or grubbed up a root and put it into the basket on his arm.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 6 Alone I linger, I pluck the bitter herb by the ruined wall, the churchyard wall, and press its sour, its sweet, its sour, long grey leaf, so, twixt thumb and finger.
7 We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
8 Into these pavilions he admitted the elect, and there, says Marco Polo, gave them to eat a certain herb, which transported them to Paradise, in the midst of ever-blooming shrubs, ever-ripe fruit, and ever-lovely virgins.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 9 So sprinkled was the pasture with rag-baby blossoms and the cottony herb of Indian tobacco that it spread out like a rare old Persian carpet of cream and rose and delicate green.
10 Come with me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass-houses all the year.
11 "Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Tushin," it said.
12 Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN 13 He waved his hand, and betook himself again to his employment of gathering herbs.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN 14 She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 15 Pearl, whose activity of spirit never flagged, had been at no loss for amusement while her mother talked with the old gatherer of herbs.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL