nettles

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Even the juice o' nettles, which is common enough, drunk three times a day will kill any germ o' cancer, while it'll set up the blood as fresh an' bright as iver.

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  • The first produced nettles, the second gives roses, the third will be the age of lilies. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • At one end one sees innumerable masses of grey weather-beaten stones in every grotesque angle of incidence and coincidence, but all rude and mean, covered with mystic Hebrew letters and half-buried amid long grass, nettles, and weeds. —  Principal Cairns
  • Another bonus for bay bathers: sea nettles, the stinging jellyfish that can make swimming a pain, were not as plentiful and showed up later than usual. —  Blog updates
  • Here, barely visible among the tangle of brambles, nettles, and high grass which surrounded it, was the vault. —  The Northern Iron
  • He sat down among the nettles, the brambles, and the rank grass and burst into tears CHAPTER XI The paroxysm of tears swept Neal as the Atlantic waves sweep foaming and furious over Rackle Roy. —  The Northern Iron
 

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