knot-grass

She entered the garden and traversed the alleys, now overgrown with weeds and tufted knot-grass.

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

Give it several times a day the following syrup made of comfry, hartshorn, red roses, hog-brake roots, knot-grass, petty-moral roots; sweeten the syrup with melosses.

Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes

Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, 210

The Eve of St. Agnes 1909

On recommendation of her friends the patient, before going to bed, steeped and drank a decoction of knot-grass.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

On recommendation of her friends the patient, before going to bed, steeped and drank a decoction of knot-grass.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, 210

The Eve of St. Agnes 1884

'Tell her to stick two fresh dock-leaves on her temples, and to drink a little weak tea made of knot-grass, and on no account to go out in the hot sun.

The Purple Land 1881

Or knot-grass, that carpets every old dooryard, and fringes every walk, and softens every path that knows the feet of children, or that leads to the spring, or to the garden, or to the barn, how kindly one comes to look upon it!

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

Every minute is a to-morrow to the minute that goes before it, and is bound to it by the same duty-roots that make every moment one with eternity; but there is no more occasion to bind minute to minute with the knot-grass of anxiety, than to ruin both to-day and the grand future with the cares of a poor imaginary tomorrow.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

Now, by the time I be back, lay thou out for me on the table four bundles of herbs from the dry herb closet -- an handful of knot-grass, and the like of shepherd's pouch, and of bramble-seeds, and of plantain.

The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864