... experience, in exactly which corner of the garden she might be. At one side of this herb plot were other growths of a rustic pharmacopoeia, great treasures and rarities among the commoner herbs. There were some strange and pungent odors that roused... The Country of the Pointed Firs - Page 4by Sarah Orne Jewett - 1896 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1896 - 940 pages
...sea-breezes blew into the low end-window of the house laden with not only sweet-brier and s weet-mary, but balm and sage and borage and mint, wormwood and...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They... | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett - 1924 - 336 pages
...upon thyme, and made its fragrant presence known with all the rest. Being a very large person, hep full skirts brushed and bent almost every slender...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They... | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett - Authors, American - 1924 - 340 pages
...sweet-mary, but balm and sage and borage and mint, wormwood and southernwood. If Mrs. Todd had oo> oasion to step into the far corner of her herb plot, she...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They... | |
| Elizabeth Lawrence - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 252 pages
...pharmacopaeia, great treasures and rarities among the commoner herbs. There were some strange and potent odors that roused a dim sense and remembrance of something...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They... | |
| Various - Fiction - 1990 - 276 pages
...lodging-place, and that was its complete lack of seclusion. At first the tiny house of Mrs. Almira Todd, which stood with its end to the street, appeared...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They... | |
| June Howard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 144 pages
...and sage and borage and mint, wormwood, and southernwood" (p. 3), Almira works in her garden where there were some strange and pungent odors that roused...occult knowledge handed with them down the centuries. (P-4) This rhetoric is designed to reassure us that the past of "sacred and mystic rites" and "occult... | |
| Joseph Church - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 228 pages
...self's distant past. Upon first discovering the woman's herbal garden, the guest observes that therein "were some strange and pungent odors that roused a...occult knowledge handed with them down the centuries" (4). One anxious about time, the narrator slyly adds that at work in the garden "Mrs. Todd trod heavily... | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett - Fiction - 1994 - 340 pages
...that roused a dim sense and remembrance of something in the forgotTHE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS ten past. Some of these might once have belonged to sacred...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They... | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett - Fiction - 1997 - 354 pages
...lodging-place, and that was its complete lack of seclusion. At first the tiny house of Mrs. Almira Todd, which stood with its end to the street, appeared...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They... | |
| Kristina K. Groover - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 152 pages
...narrator describes her hostess's herb garden in mythic terms: Its "strange and pungent odors . . . roused a dim sense and remembrance of something in...occult knowledge handed with them down the centuries ..." (3—4). Mrs. Todd's herbal practice thus connects the present world with an ancient past and... | |
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