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Me and Lai (not pictured) plucking sorrell (bissap in Wollof, wonjo in Mandinka) flowers from the seeds in order to make juice.
Archive 2008-11-01 Adam Horowitz 2008
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Me and Lai (not pictured) plucking sorrell (bissap in Wollof, wonjo in Mandinka) flowers from the seeds in order to make juice.
In case you're interested... Adam Horowitz 2008
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The leaves had turned early—sorrell and gold, strewn across the browning lawn of the hospital.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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The leaves had turned early—sorrell and gold, strewn across the browning lawn of the hospital.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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Take the juyce of sorrell mixed with scalded goose-berries, and served on sippets and sugar with beaten butter, _&c.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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"The leaves of Ramsons," says Gerard, "are stamped and eaten with fish, even as we do eat greene sauce made with sorrell."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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"A boy," continued Brown to White, "in a cart, with a balled-sorrell in it."
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck 1864
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The miserable creatures will pick up chicken-weed, nettles, sorrell, bug-loss, preshagh, and sea-weed, which they will boil and eat with the voracity of persons writhing under the united agonies of hunger and death!
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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In our way all the way the mightiest merry, at a couple of young gentlemen, come down to meet the same gentlewoman, that ever I was in my life, and so W. Joyce too, to see how one of them was horsed upon a hard-trotting sorrell horse, and both of them soundly weary and galled.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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In our way all the way the mightiest merry, at a couple of young gentlemen, come down to meet the same gentlewoman, that ever I was in my life, and so W. Joyce too, to see how one of them was horsed upon a hard-trotting sorrell horse, and both of them soundly weary and galled.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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