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"Wal, Cinthy says she to old Quassia, says she, 'Is there anybody lives in this house but us? "'Anybody lives here? says Quassia: 'what you mean? says she. "Says Cinthy, 'I thought somebody went past me on the stairs last night and to-night. "Lordy massy! how old Quassia did screech and laugh. 'Good Lord! says she, 'how foolish white folks is! Somebody went past you? Was't the capt'in?
Of the tulip-tree and the quassia, it is the bark of the roots that is used. Eminent febrifuge virtues have also been found in the cortical part of the roots of the Cinchona condaminea at Loxa; but it is fortunate, for the preservation of the species, that the roots of the real cinchona are not employed in pharmacy.
Cliff absolutely detested the taste of quassia. Mrs. Cliff was not annoyed. She hoped that her visitor would soon get through with these prefatory remarks and begin to take the stand, whatever it might be, which she had come there that morning to take. "There has been sickness here since you last left," said Miss Shott, "and it has been where it was least to be expected, too.
When in its worst state, the use of something bitter, the more bitter the better, is exceedingly grateful. The difficulty lies in finding any thing that has a properly bitter taste. Aloes, nux vomica, colocynth, quassia, have a flavor that is much more sweet than bitter.
Griffith fetched a tablet and a glass of water, to which he added some of the quassia. "Here's your dose of sulphonal," he said, in his driest, most matter- of-fact tone." You've got to get to sleep. It's an early train." "What's the use? Leave me alone!" groaned Blake. "Gad, old man," put in Lord James. "Any one who didn't know you would think you were a quitter." "What's the use? I've lost out.
"'No, it wa'n't the cap'n, says she: 'it was somethin' soft and white, and moved very still; it was like somethin' in the air, says she. Then Quassia she haw-hawed louder. Says she, 'It's hy-sterikes, Miss Cinthy; that's all it is. "Wal, Cinthy she was kind o' 'shamed, but for all that she couldn't help herself.
But in the latter case, no person should remain within doors, as the fume is apt to occasion the headache. Another way is to dissolve two drams of the extract of quassia in half a pint of boiling water; and, adding a little sugar or syrup, pour the mixture upon plates. The flies are extremely partial to this enticing food, and it never fails to destroy them.
Their chief virtue lay in their violence and repulsiveness. Even to-day the tendency to regard mere bitterness or distastefulness as a medicinal property in itself has not entirely died out. This is the chief claim of quassia, gentian, calumbo, and the "simple bitters" generally, to a place in our official lists of remedies.
"Admire my knowledge of human nature, my dear Belinda," said Lady Delacour. "Now she will talk, at the next place she goes to, of nothing but of my faith in anima of quassia; and she will forget to make a gossiping story out of that most imprudent hint I gave her, about Clarence Hervey's having been an admirer of yours."
Sometimes evenin's she'd be a settin' with the cap'n, and she'd think she'd hear somebody a movin' in his room overhead; and she knowed it wa'n't Quassia, 'cause Quassia was ironin' in the kitchen. She took pains once or twice to find out that 'are.
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