bohea

• The Legislature will have indefinite power to tax them by excises, and duties on imports; both of which will fall heavier on them than on the Southern inhabitants; for the bohea tea used by a Northern freeman, will pay more tax than the whole consumption of the miserable slave, which consists of nothing more than his physical subsistence and the rag that covers his nakedness. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
• How many ushers now employs, How many maids to see the boys Have nothing in their heads V And Mrs. S Doth she abet (Like Pallas in the parlor) yet Some favor'd two or three The little Crichtons of the hour, Her muffin-medals that devour And swill her prize--bohea VI Ay, there's the playground! —  The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
• We had sage, bohea, cross-vine, spice, and sassafras teas in abundance. —  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
• The Legislature will have indefinite power to tax them by excises, and duties on imports; both of which will fall heavier on them than on the Southern inhabitants; for the bohea tea used by a Northern freeman will pay more tax than the whole consumption of the miserable slave, which consists of nothing more than his physical subsistence and the rag that covers his nakedness. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• The disciples are to prepare their bodies with three dishes of bohea, and purge their brains with two pinches of snuff. —  Inns and Taverns of Old London

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