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Sage and thoroughwort, sarsaparilla, pennyroyal, and burdock nearly every herb, in fact, in the neighbor's collection were infused into one black and eminently flavored tea, into which he dropped a little camphor, and even a modicum of castor-oil.
A bottle of castor-oil and an empty pill-box on the table by the bedside added a little local colour to the scene. "Any pain?" inquired the doctor, after an examination in which bony and very cold fingers had played a prominent part. "Not much pain," said Mr. Scutts. "Don't seem to have no strength in my back." "Ah!" said the doctor. "I tried to get up this morning to go to my work," said Mr.
What a droll figure he is, with his woolly head and thick lips, the whites of his eyes and his teeth gleaming so brightly, and his fat little black person shining all over, as well it may, for he is rubbed from head to foot with castor-oil. There it grows on that bush, with broad, beautiful, folded leaves and red stems and the pretty grey and black nuts.
Dickson told him it was the castor-oil plant, he smiled at the remembrance of the trials that plant had caused him in younger days. One elegant tree, straight as a pine, rose fifty feet in height, with leaves away up at the top only. This was the betel-nut tree. "The nuts of that tree," said Mr.
The latter plant springs up spontaneously on every manure-heap or neglected spot of ground; and might be cultivated, as in India, with great advantage, the leaf to be used as food for the caterpillar, the stalk as fodder for cattle, and the seed for the expression of castor-oil.
He used to trot about the compound, in and out of the castor-oil bushes, on mysterious errands of his own. One day I stumbled upon some of his handiwork far down the grounds. He had half buried the polo-ball in dust, and stuck six shriveled old marigold flowers in a circle round it.
It would be considered a piece of the most wasteful extravagance to burn the oil they obtain from the castor-oil bean and other seeds, and also from certain fish, or in fact to do anything with it but anoint their heads and bodies.
Patricia was horribly frightened. "And afterwards the jackass-fool made matters worse by calling me 'his darling. There is no more hateful word in the English language than 'darling. It sounds like castor-oil tastes, or a snail looks after you have put salt on him." The colonel deliberated this information; and he appeared to understand.
"Bless my heart!" cried Mrs Millett, thinking first of mustard and water, and then of castor-oil, "has the poor fellow swallowed something?" "No-o-o-o!" ejaculated Maria, drawing the word out to nearly a foot in length. "But you said he'd got something in him, Maria. Good gracious me, girl! what do you mean!" "Sin and wickedness, Mrs Millett.
In the corner stood the sheep-crook, and along a shelf at one side were ranged bottles and canisters of the simple prepara- tions pertaining to bovine surgery and physic; spirits of wine, turpentine, tar, magnesia, ginger, and castor-oil being the chief. On a triangular shelf across the corner stood bread, bacon, cheese, and a cup for ale or cider, which was supplied from a flagon beneath.
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