whortle

• “Imagine their amazement when, instead of being roasted, they were taken into a lodge and treated to a kind of whortle-berry pudding _à la sauvage_!”

  French Pathfinders in North America

• “Hout, it will just be to get crane-berries, or whortle-berries, or some such stuff, out of the moss, to make the pies and tarts for the feast on”

  The Black Dwarf

• “Broken-girth-flow, a territory which, since the days of Adam, had borne nothing but ling and whortle-berries.”

  The Black Dwarf

• “His brothers and cousins laid him softly on a bank of whortle-berries, and just rode back to the lonely hamlet where he had taken his death-wound.”

  Lorna Doone

• “I see her swift foot dash the dew from the whortle, 5”

  The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry.”

  The Lord of the Rings

• “Thus she traveled three days together, having nothing to eat or drink but water and green whortle-berries.”

  Woman's Life in Colonial Days

• “There were May flowers, violets and anemonies, in spring time; box, whortle, and black berries, in summer, and acorns and walnuts in autumn.”

  No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey

• “The ground sloped upwards after a while, and he tore up the incline, breathing deep and hard; down into a shallow valley, leaping gorse bushes, crashing through whortle and meadowsweet, stumbling over peat-cuttings and the workings of forgotten tin-mines.”

  Uncanny Tales

• “And in the afternoon, when they had alighted under a little stunted pine in the middle of a large swamp, where all was wet, and all was cold; where some knolls were covered with snow, and others stood up naked in a puddle of half-melted ice-water, even then, he had not felt discouraged, but had run about in fine spirits, hunting for cranberries and frozen whortle-berries.”

  The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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