Eyebright

The droll name struck some one's fancy and from that day she was always called Eyebright because of that, and because her eyes were bright.

Eyebright A Story Susan Coolidge 1870

So, at early dawning of the third day, they left the island, rowing down to the village in the newly christened "Eyebright," now the property of Mr. Downs.

Eyebright A Story Susan Coolidge 1870

"Eyebright," she called after them, "tea will be ready in ten minutes.

Eyebright A Story Susan Coolidge 1870

The poet who _makes others see_ is he who deals with abstractions: who makes the mood do duty for the man.] [Footnote 18: Walter Savage Landor.] [Footnote 19: The word "Eyebright" at page 170 stands for Euphrasia its

A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

In one way at any rate this shortness of provisions was good for the peace of Cheasing Eyebright — for many years he ate up every grain very nearly of the Food of the

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

And far away, miles and miles away, a steeple and a hanger grew insensibly out of the vague blue to mark more and more distinctly the quiet corner where Cheasing Eyebright sheltered from the tumult of the world, recking little or nothing of the Herakleophorbia concealed in that white bundle that struggled so persistently towards its orderly retirement.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

She went out by the front door, going that way not because she wanted to go to Hickleybrow (her goal was Cheasing Eyebright, where her married daughter resided), but because the back door was impassable on account of the canary creeper that had been, growing so furiously ever since she upset the can of food near its roots.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

His queer voice, the voice that had been so bad for school discipline at Cheasing Eyebright, smote the multitude to silence while it sounded and splashed them all to tumult at the end.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

Cheasing Eyebright; the new Vicar was less luminous even than the old, and the riddle of his pointless labour grew at last to the dimensions of exasperation.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

But even so secluded a place as Cheasing Eyebright could not rest for long in the theory of Hypertrophy — Contagious or not — in view of the growing hubbub about the Food.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004