"Purgative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... liquor which, on tapping, it yields in great abundance, they drink without mixture, or any preparation, as we had frequent opportunities of observing upon our journey to Bolcheretsk; and found it ourselves pleasant and refreshing, but somewhat purgative. The bark they convert into vessels, for almost all their domestic and kitchen purposes; and it is of the wood of this tree the sledges and ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr |
