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"Yes, yes," said Jane, "the very one; gall and worm-wood I drank, and all for him; he ran away and " "Yes," added Aunt Hildy, "tell it all. Silas and our boy went with him, father and son, and Satan led 'em all." "Has he suffered much?" said Clara. "Oh, yes, marm, but he says he can't live without me! He hain't never been married; I'm fifty-four, and he's the same age."
There is baneberry, whose very name sufficiently describes its dangerous nature. There are horse-radish, and stinging rocket, and biting wall-pepper, and still smarter water-pepper, and worm-wood, and nightshade, and spurge, and hemlock, and half a dozen other equally unpleasant weeds.
So after all the plotting, the counterplotting, the dangers and hardships; after all her own gallant efforts, the girl had lost the game. He looked at her as she stood there repressing under a stoical blankness of expression, emotions which he thought must sum up to a worm-wood bitterness of spirit. "We're wasting time here," he announced after a brief and painful pause.
"She is moulderin' in jail," sez she. "In jail? Cassandra in jail!" "Yes, in jail." And Serepta's tone wuz now like worm-wood and gall. "You know she owns a big property in tenement houses and other buildings where she lives.
Yes, it had been lost a good hour ere he found it out, for he had fancied that he had felt it there, and often did he feel, but his fancy was a button; and when he made the dread discovery, what a sting of momentary anguish, what a sickening fear, what an eager search! and, as the grim truth became more evident, that, indeed, beyond all remedy, his new-got, ill-got, egg of coming wealth was all clean gone oh! this was worm-wood, this was bitter as gall, and the strong man well-nigh fainted.
The leaves are frequently employed in discutient and antiseptic fomentations; and have been recommended also in lotions and unguents for cutaneous eruptions, and the falling off of the hair. ARTEMISIA maritima. SEA WORMWOOD. Tops. D. In taste and smell, it is weaker and less unpleasant than the common worm-wood.
He contrasted that patriotic fire with the spirit in which he had written the Adams pamphlet. The fire had gone out, and the precipitation was gall and worm-wood. Even the spirit in which he had first attacked Jefferson in print was righteous indignation by comparison. Had he hated his soul to cinders?
Something in the father's mind now lay like worm-wood on the lips. He sat leaning his head on his hand, his eyes on the ground, brooding, embittered. "If I had only had a son to have been proud of!" he muttered. "It's of no use; he wouldn't go. It isn't in him to take an education."
The moist soil gives free development to thickets of various willows, bordered with dense walls of worm-wood and needle-bearing Composita, and interspersed with rich but not extensive prairies harbouring a great variety of herbaceous plants; while in the deltas of the Black Sea rivers impenetrable masses of rush shelter a forest fauna.
Yes, it had been lost a good hour ere he found it out, for he had fancied that he had felt it there, and often did he feel, but his fancy was a button; and when he made the dread discovery, what a sting of momentary anguish, what a sickening fear, what an eager search! and, as the grim truth became more evident, that, indeed, beyond all remedy, his new-got, ill-got, egg of coming wealth was all clean gone oh! this was worm-wood, this was bitter as gall, and the strong man well-nigh fainted.
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