The prisons within the metropolis are Brixton, Holloway, Pentonville, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubbs.
A growin' bush makes the best gravestone; I expect that wormwood always stood for somebody's solemn monument.
Mullein in great quantities and a plant o' wormwood I remember seeing once when I stayed there, long before she fled out to Shell-heap.
Even her worship of Marie Antoinette, between whom and herself she found imaginary resemblances, failed to warm the stony hearts of the proud old ladies, to whom it was as gall and wormwood to see a nobody crowned in the palace of their kings.
At mid-day, scrambling up a gravel hill with a little wormwood upon it, and turning my back to the heavy rain, I ate a lunch of dates and ginger, insufficient sustenance for such fatigue.
Therefore thus saith the Lord(404) the God of Israel, Behold I will give them wormwood to eat and the waters of poison to drink.
The lofty goal she had striven to reach, and of which she had never lost sight, was now gained; but a bitter drop of wormwood mingled with the happiness that filled her grateful heart to overflowing.
Without one kind farewell word from him, the bitterest drop of all would fall into the wormwood which already mingled in her happiness.
Peter saw and felt this; and the visits of the squire were wormwood to his spirit.
I was in a state of desperation; gall and wormwood were in my heart.
But you, madam, who are so holy and good, are aware that God can at his pleasure confound the projects of the wicked, and change wormwoodinto honey.
The report of his capataz added to his discouragement, for it was the drop of wormwood which makes the brimful cup run over.
Think how he shattered my life and wrecked my happiness, when he enticed you with the golden apple, that rots and decays, turning to wormwood between the lips!
The maddening thought of Eleanor and Quinton together adds gall and wormwood to the desolation in the deserted husband's heart.
This he gave her by the pound, and in a few weeks the wormwood was all gone, but the ox gall had taken its place, and was fully as bitter and disagreeable.
Sauve Moi, begging him to do something which would extract the wormwood from her body.
He was bitter, not as wormwood only, but as wormwood and gall combined.
The town hall, the West London hospital with its post-graduate college, and Wormwood Scrubbs prison are noteworthy buildings.
I had no inducement, remember, ever to return to surreptitious life within a cab-fare of Wormwood Scrubbs.
Raffles, and at the crucial moment he would whisper "Victory or Wormwood Scrubbs, Bunny!
And I who had bolted my skilly at Wormwood Scrubbs, and tightened my belt in a Holloway attic, it was I who sat down to this ineffable repast!
The country was particularly deficient in trees, large tracts growing nothing but wormwood and similar low shrubs, while others were absolutely without either tree or bush.
There is an alternation of bare undulating hills and dry plains, producing wormwood and other aromatic plants.
The life of Millbank was prolonged until the end of the nineteenth century, by which time the new and palatial buildings at Wormwood Scrubs, on the western outskirts of London, had been completed.
The work at Wormwood Scrubs as at Sing Sing was almost entirely done by the convicts themselves under the supervision of the warders and directing staff.
Throughout this period, Millbank was the parent prison, Wormwood Scrubs only an offshoot drawing support, supplies, cash, all necessaries from the older establishment.
And such praise from the Magnus's lips, under the present circumstances, was gall and wormwood to his haughty soul.
The average chatter of Pratinas and Valeria had been gall and wormwood to him, and he had been glad enough to evade it; but here was Pratinas with a secret which he clearly did not wish Pisander to know.
And the name of the star is called wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood and many died of the waters because they were made bitter.
Youth drinks its gall and wormwoodwith almost as supreme satisfaction as it does its nectar and ambrosia.
Wormwood and Arnica are sometimes applied in poultices.
An invaluable remedy for a sprain or bruise is wormwood boiled in vinegar and applied hot, with enough cloths wrapped around it to keep the sprain moist.
These things were wormwood to his spirit, and he repented that he had built his house in a neighbourhood where he was known.
And we will of course avoid all references to Wormwood Scrubbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wormwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
