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  • The epilogue ends, incorrigibly, with a promise to “posset and cosset” the cavilling reader henceforward with “nettle-broth,” good for the sluggish blood and the disordered stomach.

    Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

  • _I'll_ tell 'ee about nettle-broth an' bread-crumbs for a child's diet!

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The epilogue ends, incorrigibly, with a promise to "posset and cosset" the cavilling reader henceforward with "nettle-broth," good for the sluggish blood and the disordered stomach.

    Robert Browning 1892

  • Hence a chill heavy rheum and fitful cough shattered me continually until I fled to thine asylum, and brought me back to health with rest and nettle-broth.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • At the second sitting she prescribed for herself nettle-broth; at the third, catnip.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

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