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  • As a premed student, I should be buying that as a hedge athelas

    Intrade Market: Obamacare’s Public Option Tanks to 14% Chance of Passage - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009

  • 'They are dry and some of their virtue has gone, he said, but here I have still some of the leaves of athelas that I gathered near Weathertop.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Aragorn bathed the hurts with water in which athelas was steeped.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • And when the fragrance of athelas stole through the room, like the scent of orchards, and of heather in the sunshine full of bees, suddenly Merry awoke, and he said:

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • ‘Your lordship asked for kingsfoil, as the rustics name it, he said; or athelas in the noble tongue, or to those who know somewhat of the Valinorean ...’

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Aragorn bathed the hurts with water in which athelas was steeped.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Once more Aragorn bruised two leaves of athelas and cast them into steaming water; and he laved her brow with it, and her right arm lying cold and nerveless on the coverlet.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • When the black breath blows and death’s shadow grows and all lights pass, come athelas! come athelas!

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • ‘They are dry and some of their virtue has one,’ he said, ‘but here I have still some of the leaves of athelas that I gathered near Weathertop.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

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