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The epilogue ends, incorrigibly, with a promise to “posset and cosset” the cavilling reader henceforward with “nettle-broth,” good for the sluggish blood and the disordered stomach.
Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905
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_I'll_ tell 'ee about nettle-broth an' bread-crumbs for a child's diet!
Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The epilogue ends, incorrigibly, with a promise to "posset and cosset" the cavilling reader henceforward with "nettle-broth," good for the sluggish blood and the disordered stomach.
Robert Browning 1892
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Hence a chill heavy rheum and fitful cough shattered me continually until I fled to thine asylum, and brought me back to health with rest and nettle-broth.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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At the second sitting she prescribed for herself nettle-broth; at the third, catnip.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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