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This can be worked into hoar-hound or dark penny goods, pop-corn bricks, etc.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus
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The old people tasted of peppermint, clove, and such comfortable things, good for pain; but the old maids had lemon, hoar-hound, flag-root, and all sorts of sour, bitter things in them, and did not get eaten much.
The Candy Country Louisa May Alcott 1860
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I will here mention some of the best and most common: -- Bitter-root, hoar-hound, black and sampson snake-root, spikenard, columbo-root, goldenseal, bearberry, poplar bark, gum myrrh.
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horehound
January 12, 2016