How To Use Dittany In A Sentence
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Another interesting plant was Cunda origanoides (dittany), seen by many of the participants, including the trip leader, for the first time.
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The snake hit you too, but I've cleaned the wound and put some dittany on it ...
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
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Wild goats in Crete are said, when wounded by arrows, to go in search of dittany, which is supposed to have the property of ejecting arrows in the body.
The History of Animals
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They were wincing as they dabbed essence of dittany onto their many injuries.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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I had collected a pocketful of eyebright and dittany by the time they finished talking and Hugh Munro rose to go.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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I had collected a pocketful of eyebright and dittany by the time they finished talking and Hugh Munro rose to go.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Several of these - sage, rosemary, thyme, horsebalm and mountain dittany - are rich in thymol and carvacrol, compounds that help muscles relax.
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Native to the mountains of Crete and also called dittany or dictamnus, this perennial plant can reach a height of 0.3 meters.
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Since stags and hinds, when deeply wounded with darts, arrows, and bolts, if they do but meet the herb called dittany, which is common in Candia, and eat a little of it, presently the shafts come out and all is well again; even as kind Venus cured her beloved byblow Aeneas when he was wounded on the right thigh with an arrow by
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
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There was a well in the centre with roses trained over it, roses of the dark old damask kind and the dainty musk, used to be distilled for the eyes, some flowers lingering still; there was the brown dittany or fraxinella, whose dried blossoms are phosphoric at night; delicate pink centaury, good for ague; purple mallows, good for wounds; leopard's bane with yellow blossoms; many and many more old and dear friends of Grisell, redolent of Wilton cloister and Sister
Grisly Grisell
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Below them grow low-growing shrubs and ground covers, such as azaleas, dittany of Crete, ferns, and junipers.
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It was believed that the juice of the dittany would drive away venomous beasts.
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But dittany, which is to be had in the woods all the while those insects remain in vigor, is a sure defence against them.
The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
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Several of these - sage, rosemary, thyme, horsebalm and mountain dittany - are rich in thymol and carvacrol, compounds that help muscles relax.
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Within minutes he was absorbed in the problem of whether the "dittanders" of Aelfric was, or was not, the same as his own "dittany".
The Devil's Novice
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Since stags and hinds, when deeply wounded with darts, arrows, and bolts, if they do but meet the herb called dittany, which is common in Candia, and eat a little of it, presently the shafts come out and all is well again; even as kind
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
