Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of th...e law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] A...nthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the "white male" into a nice pickle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write;... And, if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eager...ly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale "crush me and eat me!"Mfor us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, teaplant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But when the bowels of the earth were sought, And men her golden entrails did espy,... This mischief then into the world was brought, This framed the mint which coined our misery. ... And thus began th'exordium of our woes, The fatal dumb-show of our misery; Here sprang the tree on which our mischief grows, The dreary subject of world's tragedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-c...orn informations!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking a good mouthful, I felt as though I had taken liquid fire; the tomato was chile colorado, or red pepper, of the purest kind.... It nearly killed me, and I saw Gómez' eyes twinkle for he saw that his share of supper was increased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See where my Love sits in the beds of spices, Beset all round with camphor, myrrh, and roses,... And interlaced with curious devices Which her apart from all the world incloses! There doth she tune her lute for her delight, And with sweet music makes the ground to move, Whilst I, poor I, do sit in heavy plight, Wailing alone my unrespected love;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of... ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »