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11 total sentences available.
[T]he people of his citye, […] shulde be norysshed with barly brede and cakes of whete, and that the residue of their diete shulde be salte, olyues, chese, and likes, and more ouer wortes that the feldes do brynge furthe, for their potage.
Source: wiktionary
[H]e [a poor person] drinks vvater, and liue's of vvort leaues, pulſe, like a hog, or ſcraps like a dog, […]
Source: wiktionary
It is an excellent pleaſure to be able to take pleaſure in vvorts and vvater, in bread and onions; […]
Source: wiktionary
Two saints are credited with giving St. John's wort its name. One was St. John of Jerusalem, who used the wort (plant) during the crusades to heal his knights' battlefield wounds, and the other was John the Baptist.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae.
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