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  • Brother Cadfael was standing in the middle of his walled herb-garden, looking pensively about him at the autumnal visage of his pleasance, where all things grew gaunt, wiry and sombre.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Brother Edmund and Brother Winfrid between them would now have to supply his place, prepare medicines, provision the leper hospital at Saint Giles, tend the herb-garden, do not only their own work, but also his.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Brother Edmund and Brother Winfrid between them would now have to supply his place, prepare medicines, provision the leper hospital at Saint Giles, tend the herb-garden, do not only their own work, but also his.

    Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

  • Brother Cadfael was standing in the middle of his walled herb-garden, looking pensively about him at the autumnal visage of his pleasance, where all things grew gaunt, wiry and sombre.

    Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

  • Hugh and Cadfael came together from Tutilo's cell, and refuged in the herb-garden in the twilight after Vespers, to consider what little they had got from him; and it was little enough, but sturdily consistent with what he had affirmed from the beginning.

    The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

  • He had learned to control his own vigorous body and lively mind since he had first come to assist Cadfael in the herb-garden, no longer broke what he handled or fell over his own feet in his haste and ardour to do good.

    The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

  • But she was gone, it seemed, no further than Cadfael's workshop in the herb-garden, where he found her waiting patiently outside the open door when he came to decant the lotion he had left cooling before Mass.

    The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • Vespers was over, and Cadfael spared time to pay a visit to his workshop in the herb-garden before supper, in case the boy was waiting for him there.

    The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • Brother Cadfael, preoccupied with his own narrower concerns, continued to survey the vegetable patch outside the wall of his herb-garden, digging an experimental toe into soil grown darker and kinder after a mild morning shower.

    The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • Cadfael passed through the herb-garden into the small plot where he had a couple of apple trees and a pear tree of his own growing, just old enough to crop.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

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