Cresses

Cresses or water-purpie, and a bit ait-cake, can serve the

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

We had everything that we wanted, and on Saturdays we would take the Trailways bus into town and go to Cresses (ph).

CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2007 2007

We had everything that we wanted, and on Saturdays we would take the Trailways bus into town and go to Cresses (ph).

CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007 2007

Cresses grow wonderful well in the swampier bits and the worms cannot eat it, so grow cress, no matter what else ye fancy growing and Stores can give ye.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Cresses grow wonderful well in the swampier bits and the worms cannot eat it, so grow cress, no matter what else ye fancy growing and Stores can give ye.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Cresses, which they thought very beneficial to the brain.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

_ Take two handfuls of _Wild-Cresses_, of _Elecampane_, of the

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

A favourite maxim with them was, "Eat Cresses, and get wit."

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

And therefore the leaves of wild Cresses were eaten as a substitute for giving pungency to the food.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Corsons, Leamings, Ludlams, Spicers, and Cresses, many of whose descendants still live there, were Quakers of the Long Island strain.

The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware Sydney George Fisher 1891