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Though you may be choke-full of science, not one in twenty of you knows where to find the wood-sorrel, or bee-orchis, which grow in the next wood, or on the down three miles off, or what the bog-bean and wood-sage are good for.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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An exquisitely delicate campanula with minute flowers bloomed with hemp-agrimony and wood-sage along the sides of the rills that
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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One cottage wife exclaimed that she had no patience with women so ignorant they did not know how to use herbs, as wood-sage or wood-betony.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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