water-cresses

There were others resembling parsley, and having the taste of water-cresses with white turnip-like roots.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Does meditation attract the moisture to the water-cresses?

Clouds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

See, dear Mrs Flanagan, I bought these water-cresses for you.

Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets Gertrude P. Dyer

They had kept only one cow, and Tommy Low would attend to her for the sake of his suppers, -- suppers at which Vivia must forego her water-cresses now; but Janet had a bed of mushrooms growing down-cellar, that, broiled and buttered, were, she fancied, quite equal to venison-steaks.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

"And now, please, I should like a bunch of water-cresses for Mrs. Flanagan," said the child.

Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets Gertrude P. Dyer

In deep burnished brass bowls lay water-cresses; in Caen dishes of an age to make a bric-a-brac collector turn green with envy, a _Béarnaise_ sauce was being beaten by another gallic master-hand.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

But the mention of water-cresses, kales, gooseberries, currants, &c., by old writers, appears to invalidate the pursy historian.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 Various

Then we had water-cresses from the aqueduct, at a place where its side was partly broken between the upper and the second pool.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

And these three cities were Caphar Bish (literally, the village of evil), so called because there was no hospice for the reception of strangers therein; Caphar Shichlaiim (village of water-cresses), so called because it was chiefly on that herb that the people subsisted;

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

Boyle fainted when he heard the splashing of water; Scaliger turned pale at the sight of water-cresses; Erasmus experienced febrile symptoms when smelling fish; the Duke d'Epernon swooned on beholding a leveret, although a hare did not produce the same effect; Tycho Brahe fainted at the sight of a fox;

Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various