"Herbal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... terminal ridges, especially towards the west, are, as has been said, naked in aspect. Their scanty vegetation is almost wholly herbal; shrubs are only occasional; trees almost non-existent. Labiate, composite and umbelliferous plants are most common. Ferns and mosses are almost confined to the higher ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... the Spirit of the Air presses outwards through a hot thing, so doth the Air embrace the Taste about, and descends the subtile Taste, that it should not be burnt by the vehement burning Choler, as in the Herbal is at ...
— Of Natural and Supernatural Things • Basilius Valentinus
... caused the apples, not the tubers, to be cooked and served upon his own table. Buckle, however, says that the common, or Virginian, potato was introduced by Raleigh in 1586, and Lyte, who wrote in that year, does not mention the plant; but Gerarde, who published the first edition of his Herbal in 1597, gave a portrait of himself with a ...
— Storyology - Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore • Benjamin Taylor
... these three sorts of Ginger, though Gerarde says: "Ginger groweth in Spaine, Barbary, in the Canary Islands, and the Azores," p.6. Only two sorts of Ginger are mentioned in Parkinson's Herbal, p.1613. 'Ginger grows in China, and is cultivated there.' ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... with the contrasting pungence of thyme. Two other herbal cheeses are flavored with thyme—both French: Fromage ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown
... he was passing the house he stopped suddenly. Above the dry, dusty, herbal odors of the plain, above the scent of the new-mown hay within the barn, there was distinctly another fragrance,—the smell of a pipe. But where? Was it his host who had risen to take the outer air? Then it suddenly flashed upon him that Beasley did NOT smoke, nor the constable either. The smell ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte |
