How To Use Sassafras In A Sentence

  • The dogwood, oak, chestnut, pine, red maple, black locust, sassafras, hickory, willow, cottonwood, and redbud dotted the landscape.
  • It is so strong a sudorific, that the natives never use any other for promoting sweating, although they are perfectly acquainted with sassafras, salsaparilla, the esquine and others. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
  • It didn't take more'n several jiffies for all of us to be inside that old-fashioned cabin, where there was a crackling fire in his fireplace and another fire roaring in his kitchen stove and where there was a teakettle singing like everything, meaning that pretty soon we'd have some sassafras tea. Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
  • Missing from the listing are rapidly growing shrubby invasive or edge species such as sassafras, pawpaw, hawthorn, and mulberry.
  • We can swab it repeatedly Sassafras pages, and then dust lightly flick.
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  • Likewise filé powder made from the dried leaves of the sassafras tree would be added during the final stages of cooking to give the gumbo a ‘stringy’ texture.
  • At the bottom of the gorge was a dense rainforest of coachwood, sassafras, lilly pilly, possumwood and tree ferns.
  • When Gosnold prepared to return to England in his vessel, the "Concord," with a cargo of native products, such as sassafras, cedar, etc., those who had planned to remain and settle returned with him, fearing that they might not share in the expected profits. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886
  • We had tea of everything — blackberry, raspberry and sage leaves, sassafras and spicewood; but the wild crossvine, whose pretty stem the children often smoked, furnished from its leaves the very best, resembling in a great measure the real Japan tea; but A southern woman's war time reminiscences,
  • The mitten-shaped foliage you sent appears to be that of a sassafras, a small to medium tree with fruit that turns deep blue and is carried on a bright red stalk.
  • These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • After the conquest made by the Spaniards in Florida sassafras was used in the treatment of syphilis, the warm infusion being applicable in cutaneous disease, by acting on the emunctories. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • But I try not to let my, ahem, discerning tippling proclivities get in the way of enjoying a normal drink like a normal person at a normal bar—the kind of bar that doesn't have sassafras tinctures. The Most Foolproof Cocktail
  • Tom Doyle b. 1928 fells cherry, oak and sassafras trees to make his carved, rough-hewn tripartite sculptures, some of which he casts in red and brown patinated bronze. The Shape of Things
  • Datura; and to such as are cold, the [4134] decoction of guiacum, China sarsaparilla, sassafras, the flowers of carduus benedictus, which I find much used by Montanus in his Consultations, Julius Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Some natural sassafras and nutmeg from the grapes, but none of the over-the-top oak to mask what might or might not be present in the fruit. Red, With Envy: Assessing 2007 Finger Lakes Reds
  • _Hartshorn_ applied to the stings of poisonous insects will allay the pain and stop the swelling; or apply oil of sassafras, which is better. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
  • Inside and along the fence, pokeberries, elders, sassafras, and sumac grew high and dense. Whirligigs
  • Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • I've also made 3 tulipwoods, another cedar, and another sassafras but gave those as gifts before taking pictures.
  • The sassafras is rusty, the beeches have yet to go from green to gold, and those wily, ancient oaks are always the last to give up their autumnal ghosts. 2006 October - Telic Thoughts
  • So it starts off through a fantastic grove of sassafras and tree ferns and descends down through the forest with the trees growing bigger and bigger as you descend into the valley floor, where the Blue Tier Giant stands above the Groom River.
  • They love the leaves from trees, especially sassafras trees, and gobble them up quickly. Archive 2010-06-01
  • It was all washed down with a delicious tea made from the leaves of the sassafras, whose benefits were once known only to the Aborigines.
  • Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash.
  • On Saturday mornings my mother would run into people she knew buying homemade pies, dried sassafras bark, or green bell peppers such exotic items in the southern Indiana of the early 1970s, before globalization folded the ends of the earth together, that people referred to them as “mangoes”. Day of Honey
  • Filé, a powder made from sassafras, may be used to add more gumminess.
  • There was something lonely about the figure of the old man wandering along the fencerow filled with sassafras and elderberry.
  • Mouthwatering bread pudding, hoecakes, groundnut stew and sassafras tea are just a few.
  • Sassafras leaves contain not only sassafras flavour but also a gummy mucilage.
  • In many other trees such as black gum, sassafras, dogwood, and some maples and oaks, the pigment anthocyanin adds red to the palette.
  • Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash.
  • It was all washed down with a delicious tea made from the leaves of the sassafras, whose benefits were once known only to the Aborigines.
  • The main aromatic in hoja santa is safrole, the characteristic note of sassafras familiar from root beers, and a suspected carcinogen. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • These are old forests of white oak and water oak and red oak and every kind of pine and dogwood and redbud and maple and sycamore and sassafras all of them making such a show of color in the fall that it takes your breath away.
  • When the cherries are gone, they visit the sassafras and pepperidge trees, and the woodbine tangles. Friends and Helpers
  • Rich hardwoods of myrtle, blackwood, sassafras and Huon pine mingle with common eucalypts.
  • The original root beer was a low-alcohol, naturally effervescent drink made by fermenting a blend of sugar and yeast with various roots, herbs and barks, such as sarsaparilla, sassafras, wild cherry, wintergreen, vanilla and ginger.
  • Between 150 and 100 million years ago, the cycads were joined by figs, sassafras, oaks, and willows, as well as such evergreen plants as sequoias and palms.
  • The log cabin, set in a gall in the middle of an old field all grown up in sassafras, was not a very inviting-looking place; a few hens loitering about the new hen-house, a brood of half-grown chickens picking in the grass and watching the door, and a runty pig tied to a "stob," were the only signs of thrift; yet the face of the woman cleared up as she gazed about her and afar off, where the gleam of green made a pleasant spot, where the corn grew in the river bottom; for it was her home, and the best of all was she thought it belonged to them. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
  • I am soooo glad I don't get hangovers ... and YES I do drink. sassafras Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia
  • Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
  • In many other trees such as black gum, sassafras, dogwood, and some maples and oaks, the pigment anthocyanin adds red to the palette.
  • Some traditional herbal products display known toxicities (e.g., calamus, comfrey, and sassafras all have been shown to have carcinogenic actions).
  • His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
  • In pure forestry practice, one sees no value in such species as dogwood, ironwood, juneberry, sumac and sassafras, and will therefore never allow those to grow up in abundance and crowd out other trees of a higher market value. Studies of Trees
  • These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Many plants contain traces of cancer-causing chemicals, like safrole, which is abundant in the roots of sassafras.
  • In the pioneer days of the great west, coffee and tea were hard to get; and, instead of them, teas were often made from garden herbs, spicewood, sassafras-roots, and other shrubs, taken from the thickets [89]. All About Coffee
  • The trees yielding common camphor and borneol are from genera of the lauraceæ family; also sassafras camphor is from the same family. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
  • Extracts of areca catechu, rhus coppallina, diospyros virginiana, sassafrass albidium, and chenopodium ambrosiodes were found to produce tumors in rats.
  • Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
  • Some natural sassafras and nutmeg from the grapes, but none of the over-the-top oak to mask what might or might not be present in the fruit. Red, With Envy: Assessing 2007 Finger Lakes Reds
  • The brilliant autumnal tints of the sassafras, pepperidge, blue beech, viburnum, juneberry and sumach are strikingly attractive. Studies of Trees
  • And so, shaded by eucalyptus trees, amidst the sweet scents of sassafras and olearia, the people lay down to rest.
  • Other trees such as pine, spruce, maple, sassafras, and birch made up the rest of the forest.
  • She recalled the sassafras trees reaching much larger proportions and the wood being valued by chair makers for its lightness and resiliency. Everyday Citizen
  • Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash.
  • The woods near our home were thick with walnut, white oak, sweet birch, sassafras, hemlock, red maple, juniper, tulip trees, and many more species I couldn't name.
  • She had brewed up some sassafras tea and given him a mug to drink in front of the fire.
  • Walking tracks through the Cathedral take you under an amazing canopy of ferns, sassafras and coachwoods.
  • The brilliant autumnal tints of the sassafras, pepperidge, blue beech, viburnum, juneberry and sumach are strikingly attractive. Studies of Trees
  • There were checkerberry-pipe and licorice-pipe and sassafras-pipe, and -- how Wort's eyes did glisten and his mouth water as he imagined the different kinds there! The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
  • And presses, the goal of the planer mill Sassafras thumb block ( film ) of Shandong agent.
  • The sassafras is a beautiful shrub, and I cannot imagine why it has not been naturalized in England, for it has every appearance of being extremely hardy. Domestic Manners of the Americans
  • The jungle is the home of giant gums and dense myrtle, of umbrageous fig and tall palm, of sassafras and supplejack.
  • The recipe requires oil of sassafras, or another source of safrole. Clandestine-Chemistry
  • Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
  • Some also find natural gardening methods to be very effective, such as using mosquito-repelling plants like sassafras, sweet basil, eucalyptus and geraniums, particularly the citrosa variety.
  • Other trees are blackjack oak, post oak, and sassafras.

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