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Examples
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She put me to bed, right in the middle of the day, and made me take some hot ginger-tea.
In Blue Creek Cañon Anna Chapin Ray 1905
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I like the poor devil, but anyhow I'm not in a position to be going around with ginger-tea in a spoon, or Ecclesiastes under my arm, -- very good things.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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I like the poor devil, but anyhow I'm not in a position to be going around with ginger-tea in a spoon, or Ecclesiastes under my arm, -- very good things.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897
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North-West Mounted Police -- was called ginger-tea, in consideration of the prohibition statute.
Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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I like the poor devil, but anyhow I'm not in a position to be going around with ginger-tea in a spoon, or Ecclesiastes under my arm, -- very good things.
Mrs. Falchion, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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West Mounted Police -- was called ginger-tea, in consideration of the prohibition statute.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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West Mounted Police -- was called ginger-tea, in consideration of the prohibition statute.
Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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"You'd better make you a cup of ginger-tea and go to bed."
Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Those persons who do not choose to employ medical advice on the subject, dose themselves with ginger-tea, strong infusion of hyson, or any other powerful green tea, pepper, and whiskey, with many other remedies that have the sanction of custom or quackery.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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Des you took anoder swaller ob dis ginger-tea, en den you see me'n Chunk ain 'angels. "
Miss Lou Edward Payson Roe 1863
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