"Wintergreen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confectioner's sugar; six large tablespoonfuls water; six drops oil of peppermint or wintergreen; a little bit of cream of tartar put into a cup with a bit of sugar and the oil. Boil until it ropes, then remove from fire and stir in the cream of ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various
... bushes,—she called them "lay-locks." Behind the house were apple-trees, and more currant bushes, as well as gooseberries and raspberries. A herb garden grew under her kitchen windows, so that her kitchen and pantry always smelled of thyme and wintergreen, and her ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... Procumbens). The leaves are used. This plant possesses stimulant, aromatic, and astringent properties. The essence of Wintergreen is carminative, and is used in colics. Dose—Of the essence, one-half to one teaspoonful in sweetened water; of the oil, three ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... was laid with fine taste. A diminutive pine-tree, in a pot hung round with wintergreen, stood in ...
— Black Rock • Ralph Connor
... the same pew with ourselves, who, regarding the minister the while with unmoved countenance, was wont ever and anon, with quiet hand, to insinuate within my childish grasp the beatifying lozenge, or the snow-white and aromatic sassafras or wintergreen "pipe." The sweet savor of those frequent gifts, sweeter for their half-secret, half-forbidden conferring, will never disappear out of my memory. That candy, if I had the power, should be paid for with rewards (not one whit more ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various
... the wind. In the trail of the herd the snow was broken up, and not more than a foot and a half in depth. On a likely-looking hillock he scraped it away carefully with his feet, till he reached the ground; and here he found what he expected—a few crimson berries of the wintergreen, frozen, but plump and sweet-fleshed. Half a handful of these served for the moment to cajole his hunger, and he pressed briskly but warily along the ridge, availing himself of the shelter of every rampike in his path. ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts |
