liquorice

• “Tom was a good-natured lad, and, as his master said, very fond of liquorice; but the doctor used to laugh at that (when Tom was not by), saying, "it's very true that Tom cribs my _liquorice_; but I will say this for him, he is very honest about _jalap_ and _rhubarb_, and I have never missed a grain.”

  Poor Jack

• “Tom was a good-natured lad, and, as his master said, very fond of liquorice; but the doctor used to laugh at that (when Tom was not by), saying, "It's very true that Tom cribs my _liquorice_; but I will say this for him, he is very honest about _jalap_ and _rhubarb_, and I have never missed a grain.”

  Poor Jack

• “2 - Ricci brand liquorice is sold in Go Lo stores, Woolworths, and selected chemists.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something.

• “Another solution may be recommended, that of the black liquorice, which is a transparent brown, and naturally hard.”

  The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.

• “And Bézuquet, labelling liquorice and _sirupus gummi_, resembles an old sea-rover of the Barbary coast.”

  Tartarin On The Alps

• “The roots afford liquorice, which is extracted in the same manner as that from the true Spanish liquorice plant, the _Glycyrrhiza glabra_.”

  Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture

• “Note other loanwords entering into Latin from Greek that show the same curious loss of g- eg. liquiritia 'liquorice”

  Indo-European (*)*ǵalak- 'milk'

• “It is often needful to use some soothing, nourishing substance, such as liquorice, boiled with a little camomile, taken, say after meals, while the acid is taken before them: this has an excellent effect.”

  Papers on Health

• “On the beach of the great river they found an abundance of a sweet fragrant root which Mackenzie calls "liquorice".”

  Pioneers in Canada

• “All things considered, I’d still rather that kind of liquorice than the weirdy weirdy sweet stuff you get in the rest of the world, anyday.”

  “Mapplethorpe: Polaroids” | clusterflock

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