wintergreens

Owls that had been catching mice in the out-houses, rabbits that had been eating the wintergreens in the gardens, and stoats that had been sucking the blood of the rabbits, discerning that their human neighbors were on the move, discreetly withdrew from publicity, and were seen and heard no more that day.

The Woodlanders 2006

Traitor to its kind, it has dropped from the ranks of the laurels, the heather, and the jolly little wintergreens to the colourless life of a parasite, -- hobnobbing with clammy toadstools and slimy lichens.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

The memory of my youthful Sundays is fragrant with wintergreens, black birch, and crinkle-root, to say nothing of the harvest apples that grew in our neighbor's orchard; and the memory of my Sundays in later years is fragrant with arbutus, and the showy orchid, and wild strawberries, and touched with the sanctity of woodland walks and hilltops.

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

Such a scrambling to new places as they had then; such a harvest of finest wintergreens as they all gathered together; till Nora took off her sun-bonnet to serve for a new basket.

Melbourne House 1907

"Picking wintergreens," said the other, in a breath.

Melbourne House 1907

The wintergreens sweet under foot, sweet in the hands of the children, the whole air full of sweetness.

Melbourne House 1907

They drove in the first place for a good distance through her own home grounds, coming out to the public road by the church where Mr. Pyne preached, and near which the wintergreens grew.

Melbourne House 1907

Anybody who has ever been nine, or ten, or eleven years old, and gone in the woods looking for wintergreens, knows what followed.

Melbourne House 1907

Before she had gone a quarter of a mile from home, she met her little friend of the wintergreens.

Melbourne House 1907

Owls that had been catching mice in the out-houses, rabbits that had been eating the wintergreens in the gardens, and stoats that had been sucking the blood of the rabbits, discerning that their human neighbors were on the move, discreetly withdrew from publicity, and were seen and heard no more that day.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884