" Forgetting all his aches, his pains, his resentments, Samuel took a peppermint-lozenge out of his pocket, rolled it under his tongue, and walked on.

One of them said there was nothing in the world like "peppermint tay an' new butter" for cows that had the belly-ache.

It was hard to keep so much as an apple or a peppermint away from her if she happened to set her heart on it.

For example, the taste of the various preparations of quinine, peppermint, and wild cherry is got rid of with difficulty.

Sprinkle pulp of each half with 1 cream peppermint, broken in pieces, and chill.

[Lat.]; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

There was the mandrake, with its May apples, and the wintergreen, with its pretty red berries; the catnip and the bone-set, which are so good for colds; the lobelia, which is such a quick emetic; the spikenard, the peppermint, the snakeroot, sarsaparilla, gentian, wild ginger, raspberry, and scores of others.

I could bear most of it, if it wasn't for the peppermint glasses at the end, which the men have.

I'll ask that stick of peppermint To be my Barber pole.

Nay it was worse than physic, for a peppermint-drop can take the taste of that away in a minute.

But not all the peppermint-drops in a chymist's shop could take away the taste of the fillagree-box from Julia.

It never selected her short-watch days, when she was on duty only from eleven a.m. until six-thirty p.m. Now with a peppermint bottle held close to alternately sniffing nostrils Sadie Corn was running her eye over the complex report sheet of the floor clerk who had just gone off watch.

Why is it that kind of a face is always wearing the sables and diamonds?" "Sables and diamonds," replied Sadie Corn, sniffing essence of peppermint, "seem a small enough reward for having to carry round a mug like that!" Julia came round to the front of Sadie Corn's desk.

The peppermint bottle was held at her nose.

Sadie sniffed long and audibly at the peppermint bottle.

Sadie, peppermint bottle at nose, spoke first: "She makes one of those sandwich men with a bell, on Sixth Avenue, look like a shrinking violet!

In Sadie Corn's eyes there was a mist that could not be traced to neuralgia or peppermint.

"I've just told her to quit rubbing her head with peppermint.

'Twelve pounds in it in gold, two peppermint lozenges, and a postage stamp.'" He shook his 'ead, and put his 'elmet on agin.

"Mr. B. told me that, when he first went into the Indian country, they got the taste of his peppermint, and, after that, colics prevailed among them to an alarming extent, till Mrs. B. made a strong decoction of flagroot, and gave them in place of their favorite medicine.

"Whar's the peppermint ye used to hev by ye, woman?

There was somewhat of a savour of senna softened by peppermint about the place; but, on the whole, the lodgings were clean and comfortable.

Height, 2 ft. Peppermint.

The aroma of the summer fieldsof peppermint, catnip, and lobeliahaunted it.

" Lavretsky found Maria Dmitrievna alone in the drawing-room, which was redolent of Eau de Cologne and peppermint.