Among the grass grew such pennyroyal as the rest of the world could not provide.
This was in pennyroyal time, and when the rare lobelia was in its prime and the elecampane was coming on.
Now, instead of trying pennyroyalto get me rid of them, I will trust the Lord only.
I shall not repeat the experiment, for I got many chiggers on me, which are tormenting me from head to foot while I write, I think because I trusted the pennyroyal to keep them off me instead of the Lord.
Violet, pennyroyal or boneset tea, is excellent to promote perspiration in case of sudden chill.
Pennyroyal groweth much, without any setting, besyd hundsley [Hounslow] upon the heth beside a watery place.
That ifpennyroyal is put into "unwholesome and stinking waters that men must drinke (as at sea in long voyages) it maketh them the less hurtful.
His own complexion was still strangely impaired by its defenses, but I kept forgetting it, and looking to see if we were treading fresh pennyroyal underfoot, so efficient was Mrs. Todd's remedy.
Bunches of pennyroyal are excellent for brushing off that very annoying little insect, the seed tick.
Scents of mint and pennyroyal rose up under his mule's slow pacing feet.
The spicy odour of pennyroyal bruised underfoot, came to her nostrils like incense.
Used in dispensing, especially to make extemporaneous pennyroyal water.
The oil of pennyroyal is better, however, and an ointment made by straining one ounce of the oil into two or three ounces of pure melted lard, or mutton tallow, forms an excellent antidote.
Their thirst for blood overcomes every other instinct, and pennyroyal often ceases to have any effect.
Elias Tupper had entered Pennyroyal and with this same soft hand had since patted and soothed his congregation into following where their shepherd led.
I am reckoning some one in Pennyroyal ought to try and make things up to her.
Also, the new teacher had been secretly hurried into the county that day, driven through the adjoining town, and finally installed in the Pennyroyal district schoolhouse without Pennyroyal's being allowed a chance to take even a look.
Then, too, the minister's face was uncommonly harassed, and these were disjointed days in the Pennyroyalas well as throughout the entire country.
Since the day of the first visit there had always been in Pennyroyal a small number of women headed by Mrs. Dr.
And truly these yearly spring migrations of young Ambrose Thompson had aroused more interest and unrest in Pennyroyal than the yearly mystery of the earth's rebirth.
The drygoods firm of Hobbs & Thompson had been opened up in Pennyroyal a year before, so that to-day Ambrose's unexplained disappearance was not only a failure in personal confidence but a downright business backsliding.
Nevertheless, a little later he did turn around, and root and branch, the Susans had vanished, so that even now the news of his departure was stirring through Pennyroyal as the wind moves the leaves in a group of closely planted trees.
Then afterward Brother Bibbs followed him in, and Mrs. Webb and a dozen or more Pennyroyaltownsfolk appeared clustering in a hushed group near the little schoolhouse door.
Can't you give out that you're sick, for if only the Pennyroyal ladies can get the chance to take care of you they'll be real pleased.
Oh, dear," she said childishly, "Aunt Maria expects me to remember ants and pennyroyal when I come here.
She went for pennyroyal long ago and then Phares came and he went over after her, but I saw him go on the way to town a bit ago, so I guess she's still over there.
I told her to bring me some pennyroyalalong from the field next the quarry.
Underneath was a little fine, sparse grass and enough pennyroyal to make the place aromatic when the sunshine drew out all its essence, as was the case to-day.
She turned upon her back and lying in the grass and pennyroyal saw above her only blue sky and blue sky.
Had it not been for our pennyroyal and bacon grease, the bay horse would have been eaten raw.
It was impossible to eat or sleep without some defence, and our pennyroyal salve was invaluable.
This plant must not be confounded with the Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) of English writers, which is a species of Mint, and quite distinct from the plant generally known as Pennyroyal in this country.
Pennyroyal possesses a warm, pungent, somewhat aromatic taste, and is employed exclusively for medical purposes.
The American Pennyroyal is a small, branching, annual plant, common to gravelly localities, and abounding towards autumn among stubble in dry fields from whence crops of wheat or rye have been recently harvested.
It is the same pennyroyal that my grandmother gathered; and think to what strange use she put it!
Pennyroyal will generally expel the small brown cockroaches, if bunches of it are kept constantly in the closets, wardrobes, bureaus, &c.
They will soon depart, if bunches of pennyroyal (as fresh as you can get it, and frequently renewed) are laid in all the places where they have appeared, or are likely to come.
Pennyroyal is to be generally bought in market at the very trifling cost of one cent a bunch.
Lay these bags among the bedding, and the pennyroyal will send away the fleas.
The name Pennyroyal has no significance, as it is a corruption of an older name.
The tiny blue, pink or purple flowers of the Pennyroyal occur in open spikes on stems 4-8 in.
His next diplomatic move was to persuade Pennyroyal to go with himself and Janey to Uncle Larimy's hermit home.
Pennyroyal captured Uncle Larimy, and when Janey whirled away in the arms of a schoolmate, David, who had never learned to dance, stood isolated.
For a week Pennyroyal whipped up eggs and sugar, and David ransacked the woods for evergreens and berries with which to decorate the big barn, where the dance after the wedding was to take place.
Pennyroyal baked griddle-sized cakes, delivering them one at a time direct from the stove to the consumer.
We're after bigger game than a handful o' measly pennyroyal sang-diggers.
It was Marjorie's turn to speak, and greatly encouraged by their late success, she began: "Would you like to buy some pennyroyal extract?
So they trudged across the field to Breezy Inn, dumped their heaps of pennyroyal into the dumb-waiter, and themselves scrambled gayly up the rope ladder.
And then you leave it about two days, and then you drain it off, and then it's pennyroyal extract.
Though pennyroyal was spelled with one n, they didn't notice it, and the finished wares seemed to them a perfect result of skilled labor.
Another effective mixture is: Oil of tar 3 parts Sweet oil 3 parts Oil of pennyroyal 1 part Carbolic acid 3 per cent.
Chervil and Pennyroyal are used because they both have the effect of making anyone tasting their juices see double.
In Sicily, also, Pennyroyal is given to husbands and wives who quarrel.
According to astrologers, Pennyroyal is a herb of Venus.
In Sicily, children put Pennyroyal in their cots on Christmas Day, under the belief that at the exact hour and minute when the infant Jesus was born this plant puts forth its blossom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pennyroyal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
