yerb

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I finds the yerb, an' the chymist gits the credit.

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  • For his sake they had said little; his mother would busy herself in brewing his "yerb" tea, and his brother would offer to saddle the mare if he felt that he could ride, and they would all be very friendly together; and his alien wife would presently slip out unnoticed into the "gyarden spot," where the rows of vegetables grew as they did in the Cove, turning upon her the same neighborly looks they wore of yore, and showing not a strange leaf among them. —  His "Day In Court" 1895
  • I finds the yerb, an' the chymist gits the credit. —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
  • An old frying-pan and a small stew kettle joined the supplies; also a little package of "yerb" medicine prepared by Aunt Becky as a specific for fevers Lee walked through the silent, pre-dawn darkness to the stable and saddled her pony, blanketing and cinching as deftly as her father could have done it. —  A Man Four-Square
  • "I'll waste a leetle yerb-tea on ye, ennyhow She started back into the room, and Rufe rose at once. —  Down the Ravine
  • "Ah, dat is a great yerb, mass '; dat is a scace plant -- a berry scace plant. —  The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
 

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