"Wintergreen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now had been a wilderness truly, but a wilderness where every kind and size of growth, from the giant pine to the creeping wintergreen and shaded mosses, mingled in beautiful confusion. Here it became a desert. For the terrible forest fires, the woodsman's tragic enemy, had swept over it not long before, devastating an area of many square miles. Millions of dollars worth of valuable timber ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
... and my feet hurt." He bowed to the women, then lowered himself ponderously yet carefully over the edge of the dock and into the leather cushions of the launch. Once safely aboard, he took a package of wintergreen chewing-gum from his pocket and began to chew, staring out across the sound with that placid, speculative enjoyment which reposes in the eyes of ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach
... of alder bushes, mixed with stunted willows. On the side opposite to that by which we had descended, the hill rose long and lofty, covered with mighty timber-trees standing in open ranks and overshadowing a rugged and unequal surface, covered with whortleberry, wintergreen, and cranberries, the latter growing only along the courses of the little runnels, which channeled the whole slope. Here, stony ledges and gray broken crags peered through the underwood, among the crevices of which the stunted cedars ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)
... Turkish, Kuromoji, Lavender, Lemon, Lemon-Grass, Limes, Neroli, Myrbane, Orange Sweet & Bitter, Otto of Rose, Patchouli, Palmarosa, Pimento, Petit-Grain, Rosemary, Sandal Wood, Sage, Sassafras, Spearmint, Thyme, Wintergreen ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons
... Sis, I did somethin last night dat I oughtn't done en I can' hardly walk dis mornin. Pulled off my long drawers last night en never had none to change wid. I can' bear to get down en pray or nothin like dat, my knee does ache me so bad. I gwine up town yonder en get some oil of wintergreen en put on it. Yes'um, dat sho a good thing to strike de pain cause I heard bout dat long years ago. Sis, ain' you got no coffee nowhe' dis mornin? God knows, de Lord sho ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various |
