elder-flower

From the hedge a drift of elder-flower scent made her close her eyes.

Flowering Wilderness 2004

The elder-flower, drying on her kitchen floor, seemed to cover it with a rancid carpet, a crumbling rime of grey-green blossom fading fast in a dust of summer.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

Moved by similar enthusiasm, the cowherd took the pledge also, and if he didn't keep it, he certainly drank less, chiefly owing to the vigilant oversight of the farm-bailiff, who now exercised his natural severity almost exclusively in the denunciation of all liquors whatsoever, from the cowherd's whiskey to Thomasina's elder-flower wine.

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

“There’s no woman strives more for her children; and I’m sure at scouring-time this Lady-day as I’ve had all the bedhangings taken down I did as much as the two gells put together; and there’s the last elder-flower wine I’ve made—beautiful!

IX. To Garum Firs. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917

A fortnight later his first floor was painted throughout in a tender, elder-flower white, the paint was dry, and Oleron was in the middle of his installation.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

Mistress Jean she was makin 'the elder-flower wine;

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

Prince that Bessy's aunt takes three bottles of my dandelion and camomile mixture for 'the swimmings,' bathes her eyes every morning with my elder-flower lotion to strengthen the sight, and sleeps every night on my herb pillow (if Mary'll make me a flannel bag) before the week's out.

Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

Moved by similar enthusiasm, the cowherd took the pledge also, and if he didn't keep it, he certainly drank less, chiefly owing to the vigilant oversight of the farm-bailiff, who now exercised his natural severity almost exclusively in the denunciation of all liquors whatsoever, from the cowherd's whisky to Thomasina's elder-flower wine.

Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough 1873

But the true country elder-flower ointment contains a little piece of adder's-tongue fern, which is believed to confer magical virtue.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

-- In most hedges, though its honours are gone as the staple of elder-wine, and still better of elder-flower water, which village sages used to brew, and which was really an excellent remedy for weak eyes.

John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862