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...ranberry capsules with lots of pure water. 3. Cystitis curing infusion:1 tsp. birch leaves (a natural diuretic that reduces cystitis pain) 1 tsp. da... ... claw and yucca can aid in relieving pain. 17. Other beneficial herbs include birch, burdock, colchicum tincture, hyssop, and juniper. ... ...skin and nutrition. His recommendations are supported by research done by Dr. Ken Nelder, professor of dermatology at Texas Tech University. Indepen...

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...silver fish. His wrinkled hands and gnarled fingers gently, but deftly, held a birch branch that long ago had been fashioned into a fishing pole. H... ...ry boundaries. He wondered if the white man also had boundaries. Suddenly, the birch pole yanked down, and with hardly a move the gnarled hand flic... ...s. "So, what's on your mind?" Orinthall asked as he handed Brent a glass of old Ken­ tucky Bourbon. The Soul Bearer 131 "Franklin Pierce. How woul...

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... leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...le garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew, So feeble thrilled the streamlet ... ...and berries red; What pines on every mountain sprung, O’er every dell what birches hung, In every breeze what aspens shook, What alders shaded every b... ...and mien Had suited with the stormy scene, Just on the edge, straining his ken To view the bottom of the den, Where, deep deep down, and far within, T... ... path the Palmer showed, By glen and streamlet winded still, Where stunted birches hid the rill. They might not choose the lowland road, For the Merse... ... Marked cities lost, and empires changed, While here, at home, my narrower ken Somewhat of manners saw, and men; Though varying wishes, hopes, and fea... ...Yarrow shore. Their vexed boughs streaming to the sky, Once more our naked birches sigh, And Blackhouse heights, and Ettrick Pen, Have donned their wi... ...ngeful elfin king, Who leaves that day his grassy ring: Invisible to human ken, He walks among the sons of men. Did’st e’er, dear Heber, pass along...

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...ll received, as your poor father forecast for you, and for anything that I ken come to be a great man in time. And here, Davie, laddie,” he resumed, “... ...ere he cast about for a comfortable seat, lighted on a big boulder under a birch by the trackside, sate down upon it with a very long, serious upper l... ...ooping over the fire, turned the letter over and over in his hands. “Do ye ken what’s in it?” he asked, suddenly. “You see for yourself, sir,” said I,... ...place,” said he. “The place?” said I. “The Shaws?” “Nae other place that I ken,” said he. “Ay, man?” said I. “Is that so? Was my — was Alexander the e... ...I am, and none too much, to be the second officer of this old tub, and you ken very well if I do my best to earn it. But I was paid for nothing more.”... ...me false, and I’ll play you cunning. If a hand is laid upon me, they shall ken what money it is.” “Well,” returned the captain, “what must be must. Si... ... I have heard it both ways) in Alan’s country of Appin. This was a wood of birches, growing on a steep, craggy side of a mountain that overhung the lo... ...idnapped der, and began to run. The next moment he was lost in a fringe of birches; then he came out again on the upper side, where I could see him cl... ...; and as I did so, I heard the firelocks bang and the balls whistle in the birches. Just inside the shelter of the trees I found Alan Breck stand- ing...

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...e lambs in a severe morning like this.” 17 “Ay,” said his patron, “but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the lang sheep, billie, and muckle hard wark to... ...ush, Hobbie—not a word about that—it’s a story better forgotten.” “I dinna ken—if it had chanced amang our folk, we wad hae keepit it in mind mony a d... ...e wad hae keepit it in mind mony a day till we got some mends for’t—but ye ken your ain ways best, you lairds—I have heard say that Ellieslaw’s friend... ...them—But I can guess a wee bit what keeps your hand up, Mr. Patrick; we a’ ken it’s no lack o’ courage, but the twa grey een of a bonny lass, Miss Isa... ...I am partly of the mind mysell that it may be a live thing—and yet I dinna ken, I wadna wish to see ony thing look liker a bogle.” “At any rate,” said... ...ined the centre of a small wood, composed of large oaks, intermingled with birches, mountain-ashes, hazel, holly, and a variety of underwood. The boug...

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...en Kirstie looked up at the speaker’s face, she was aware of a change. “Godsake, what’s the maitter wi’ ye, mem?” cried the house- keeper, starting fr... ...ing ballants; to work, or to be wheeped, or to be haangit. If I set ye down at Hermiston I’ll have to see you work that place the way it has never bee... ... into another subject. “And now, let us replenish the tankard; and I believe if you will try my Cheddar again, you would find you had a better appetit... ...N runs for a great part of the way up the valley of a stream, a favourite with anglers and with midges, full of falls and pools, and shaded by willows... ... prayer upon my speerit,” said he. “I canna mind sae muckle’s what I had for denner.” The creed of God’s Remnant was justified in the life of its foun... ...ty in the way Hob guided Johnny Dickieson, at the least of it; but Guid kens! Is he a Christian even? He might be a Mahommedan or a Deevil or a Fire-w... ...of the whole stretch of braes upon the other side, still sallow and in places rusty with the winter, with the path marked boldly, here and there by th...

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...a jousting-match.’ ‘You are no better, Jeanie,’ responded Eleanor. ‘That I ken full well, but I’d be shamed to show myself to knights and lairds that ... ... the King, ‘here’ s lads enow for you. There’ s the Master of Angus, as ye ken—’(Jean tossed her head)—’more- over, auld Crawford wants one of you for... ...What is it, Patie? Not the red gold?’ ‘Oh no! I have heard of the like. Ye ken Morini, as they call him, the Lombard goldsmith in the Canongate? Weel,... ...e across the Border.’ ‘Geordie, what means this?’ ‘I canna let her gang! I ken that she scorns me.’ ‘That proud peat Jean?’ ‘Whist! whist! She scorns ... ...d blue een!’ David whistled his perplexity. ‘The Y erl,’ said he, ‘doth he ken?’ ‘I trow not! He thinks me at Tantallon, watching for the raid the Mac... ...nd white-flowered rowan; then a hand, grasping the root of a little sturdy birch, then a yellow head gradually drawn up, till a thin, bony, alert figu... ... drawn up, till a thin, bony, alert figure was for a moment astride on the birch. Reaching higher, the sunburnt, freckled face was lifted up, and Elea...

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...t it in your pocket, sir!” cries he. “Ye need name no names. The deevil’s buckie, I ken the button of him! And de’il hae’t! Where is he now!” I told h... ...it’s my belief the Advocate is still so much to be sympathised with that he doesnae ken of your existence.” I saw I had got to the wrong side of the m... ...than yesterday there was one of our Stewart lads carried to the Castle. What for? I ken fine: Act of 1736: recruiting for King Lewie. And you’ll see, ... ...is sporran full!” cried Robin. “And Eli kent of that!” “Well, it seems it’s hard to ken folk rightly,” said I. “That was just what I forgot when ye ca... ...ho and what you are. By your way of it, you’re Balfour of the Shaws; but for what I ken you may be Balfour of the Deevil’s oxter. It’s possible ye may... ...ss, and brave spirits; and I thought she walked like a young deer, and stood like a birch upon the mountains. It was enough for me to sit near by her ...

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...er was a Jacobite, and out with Kenmore, so he never took the oaths; and I ken not weel how it was, but all that I could do and say, they keepit me of... ...s by the roadside for a bit cuddy,. [Donkey] and the bits o’ rotten birk [*Birch] to boil their drap parritch wi’. Weel, there’s ane abune a’—but we’l... ...the purpose of being drunk after the lady or goodwife’s safe delivery. The ken-no has a more ancient source, and perhaps the custom may he derived fro... ...hment of the gossips who were to at- tend at the canny minute This was the ken-no, so called because its existence was secret (that is, presumed to be... ... surprised at their obstinate refusal. But the instant his back was turned ken-no was produced, and after all had eaten their fill, with a proper acco... ...large portion home with the same affectation of great se- crecy.] and the “ken-no,” and Mannering, after looking at his watch, and noting, with great ... ..., the shrubs spread- ing their waste of blossom around it, and the weeping birches, which towered over the underwood, drooping their long and leafy fi...

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...om the ploughing oxen, and such-like sights of the country. Moor, heathery marsh, tracts of rock and pines, woods of birch all jewelled with the autum... ...I sighted some red windows in the dusk. This was the hamlet of Fouzilhic; three houses on a hillside, near a wood of birches. Here I found a delightfu... ...arth, an inland castaway – was to find a fraction of my day-dreams realised. I was on the skirts of a little wood of birch, sprinkled with a few beech... ...pened, but none apparently much higher than the rest. The wind huddled the trees. The golden specks of autumn in the birches tossed shiveringly. Overh... ...set itself to cross the mountain of La Goulet. It wound up through Lestampes by upland fields and woods of beech and birch, and with every corner brou... ...lked pleasantly over her seam of the chestnut harvest, and the beauties of the Tarn, and old family affections, bro- ken up when young folk go from ho...

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...rn on high, Cast on the rout a wondering eye, Till far beyond her piercing ken The hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing di... ... rock; Then, dashing down a darksome glen, Soon lost to hound and Hunter’s ken, In the deep T rosachs’ wildest nook His solitary refuge took. There, w... ...weather-beaten crags retain. With boughs that quaked at every breath, Gray birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in... ...sea. XIV. And now, to issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer’s ken, Unless he climb with footing nice 12 The Lady of the Lake A far-proje... ...ioned future bent. He saw your steed, a dappled gray, Lie dead beneath the birchen way; Painted exact your form and mien, Your hunting-suit of Lincoln... ...ed through the tangled screen, And opened on a narrow green, Where weeping birch and willow round With their long fibres swept the ground. Here, for r... ... The wild rose, eglantine, and broom Wasted around their rich perfume; The birch-trees wept in fragrant balm; The aspens slept beneath the calm; The s... ...! what sounds are these? My dull ears catch MO faltering breeze No weeping birch nor aspens wake, Nor breath is dimpling in the lake; Still is the can... ...a faculty of seeing visions and spectral appearances which shun the common ken. ‘In the year before the great rebellion, two young men from Newcastle ...

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...mmunicant! Eh, sirs, if ye had gane doon wi’ the puir lads in the Christ-Anna, ye would ken by now the mercy o’ the seas. If ye had sailed it for as l... ... ‘But what was the creature like?’ I asked. ‘What like was it? Gude forbid that we suld ken what like it was! It had a kind of a heid upon it – man co... ...k, ‘an’ she’s comin’ aye nearer, aye nearer, aye nearer an’ nearer an’ nearer; an’ they ken’t, the folk kens it, they ken wool it’s by wi’ them. Charl... ...e hinder end. There’s nane could droon at sea wantin’ the brandy. Hoot awa, what do you ken?’ with a sudden blast of anger. ‘I tell ye, it cannae be; ... ...ious man,’ I replied, ‘and this is sin’. ‘Ou,’ he returned, ‘if it wasnae sin, I dinnae ken that I would care for’t. Ye see, man, it’s defiance. There... ...He would slip into the woods towards Acheres, and sit in the mouth of a cave among grey birches. His soul stared straight out of his eyes; he did not ... ...ry inn, and went forth strolling. The gorge was dyed deeply with heather; the rocks and birches standing lumi- nous in the sun. A great humming of bee...

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...ch they pursued with some difficulty, was in some places shaded by ancient birches and oak-trees, and in others overhung by fragments of huge rock. El... ...y shaking his head, Allan gave up the scrutiny—”I trow that lad and I will ken each other when we meet again.” Meanwhile Allan strode to the bottom of... ... thinks fit to say, an’ so the Laird may no doubt win his wager. A’ that I ken against it is, that the teil a candlestick, or ony thing like it, is in... ...e bystanders. “I will crave of that honourable cavalier who hath last spo- ken,” said Dalgetty, “to be less hasty in forming his conclu- sions, and al... ...arquis of Montrose, in the meanwhile, availing himself of some scat- tered birch trees, as well as of the smoke produced by the close fire of the Iris...

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...e of you. Stay, sir, ye wunna find the way that gate.—Odd’s mercy, he maun ken the gate as weel as I do mysel’. Weel, I wad Iike to ken wha the chield... ...state of Glentanner,— “Which sloping hills around enclose— Where many a birch and brown oak grows,” when I should have a cottage with a small libra... ...el, and desired not to disturb her housewife thrift in the least. “I dinna ken, sir,” she replied, in a dry, reveche tone, which carried me back twent... ...nstruction—” “For health,” said Christie, looking gloomily at me, “ye maun ken little of the warld, sir, if ye dinna ken that the health of the poor m... ...ess, and Mistress my Leddy. And as for staying here, if it concerns you to ken, I may stay if I can pay a hundred pund sterling for the lease, and I m... ...ou have not made up the hundred pounds to purchase the lease.” “How do you ken,” said she sharply, “that I might not have had a hundred punds of my ai...

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...tesy.’ ‘Not so ignorant as ye would pronounce me,’ roared Balmawhapple. ‘I ken weel that you mean the Solemn League and Covenant; but if a’ the Whigs ... ...ll these!’ replied Evan; ‘aye, and many a fair head beside, that would not ken where to lay itself, but for the mickle barn at Glennaquoich.’ With sim... ...fter his rapid and toilsome walk; and the perfume which it wafted from the birch-trees, bathed in the evening dew, was exquisitely fragrant. [It is no... ...athed in the evening dew, was exquisitely fragrant. [It is not the weeping birch, the most common species in the Highlands, but the woolly-leaved Lowl... ...h, the most common species in the Highlands, but the woolly-leaved Lowland birch, that is distinguished by this fragrance.] He had now time to give hi... ...ly Gaelic song, guided by which, in a sunny recess, shaded by a glittering birch-tree, and carpeted with a bank of firm white sand, he found the damse... ...cident were to happen, as her father would not need her help ony langer, I ken naught to hinder me to marry her mysell.’ ‘Gallantly resolved!’ said Ed... ...ell.’ [Corresponding to the Lowland saying, ‘Mony ane speirs the gate they ken fu’ weel.] He was about to proceed, but Callum Beg said, rather pertly,... ... most active, had pushed on, and having surmounted the ascent, were out of ken for the present. Gilfillan, with the pedlar, and the small party who we...

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...is trouble were a thing of small account, and that just above the mast reigned peace unbro- ken and eternal. STEERAGE SCENES OUR COMPANION (Steerage N... ...ep with herrings, day breaking with a scowl, and for miles on every hand lee-shores, unbro- ken, iron-bound, surf-beat, with only here and there an an... ...d; who knows but his son may become the last and least among the servants at his lordship’s ken- nel—one of the two poor varlets who get no wages and ... ...song and jest. And then we go home in the moonlit morning, straggling a good deal among the birch tufts and the boulders, but ever called together aga... ...e pines, or standing by themselves in rocky clear- ings, the delicate, snow-white trunks of birches, spreading out into snow-white branches yet more d... ...orest for the imagina- tion, and the dotted yew trees noble mountains. A Scottish moor with birches and firs grouped here and there upon a knoll, or o...

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...e of them.’ Mother Dolly’s eyes grew round. ‘Mind thee, Hob!’ she said; ‘I ken thy bark is worse than thy bite, but I would have thee to know that if ... ...hy not trust me the same?’ 16 The Herd Boy and His Hermit ‘Lady, I verily ken no name save Harry. I would trust you, verily I would, but I know not m... ... the way, over the slope of a hill, partly clothed with heather, holly and birch trees, as it rose above the moss. Hob led the pony, and there was som... ...he side of the hill, among the 18 The Herd Boy and His Hermit hollies and birches, which entirely concealed him and the bounding puppy. Hob went on i... ...the weary old anchoret! Go thy way now! Or hast thou lost it?’ ‘No, sir; I ken the woodland and can soon be at home,’ replied Hal; then, putting a kne... ...ing was withdrawn from him he sank upon his face, weeping as one heartbro- ken. He scarce heard the sounds of mounting and the tram- pling of feet, an...

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...ore the *In the cipher, audax is written avdas, and quod and quem, hod and ken. (T r.) 27 Jules Verne kalends of July, and you will attain the centre... ... beneath our feet. Not a tree was to be seen, unless we except a few dwarf birches as low as brushwood. Not an animal but a few wandering ponies that ... ... a little fleet. “Uncle, what wood is this?” I cried. “It is fir, pine, or birch, and other northern coniferae, mineralised by the action of the sea. ... ...at surrounds me. The Professor, the guide, the raft—are all gone out of my ken. An illusion has laid hold upon me. “What is the matter?” my uncle brea... ... by side, the Australian eucalyptus leaned against the Norwegian pine, the birch-tree of the north mingled its foliage with New Zealand kauris. It was...

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...its ample sweep. A little upon one side, and you find a district of sand and birch and boulder; a little upon the other lies the valley of Apremont, a... ... of it, con- ceive that little thread of memory that we trail behind us bro- ken at the pocket’s edge; and in what naked nullity should we be left! fo... ...turn of morning, the peep of day over the moors, the awaking birds among the birches; how he abhorred the long winter shut in cities; and with what de...

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...(2) Sackless (A.S. “sacu”, Icel. “sok”.) blameless. 32 The V olsunga Saga ken off; but he will pay us back in as evil wise as he may; for that alone ... ...they would let me Cast my life by, Or burn me up As they burn the birch-wood. From the fell I wandered Five days together, Until the...