"Thoroughwort" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or my sickness will increase, for such talk is like thoroughwort or lobelia to my moral and mental stomach. You know and I know that these angelic tender bein's, half-clothed, fill our streets on icy midnights, huntin' up drunken husbands and fathers and sons. They are driven to death and to moral ruin by the miserable want liquor drinkin' ...
— Samantha on the Woman Question • Marietta Holley
... of the field, and sat down on a great stone under a wild-cherry tree. He was not feeling very well; his head was dizzy, and his wife had given him a bowl of thoroughwort and ordered ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
