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Imagine their amazement when, instead of being roasted, they were taken into a lodge and treated to a kind of whortle-berry pudding _à la sauvage_!

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

His brothers and cousins laid him softly on a bank of whortle-berries, and just rode back to the lonely hamlet where he had taken his death-wound.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Hout, it will just be to get crane-berries, or whortle-berries, or some such stuff, out of the moss, to make the pies and tarts for the feast on

The Black Dwarf 2004

Broken-girth-flow, a territory which, since the days of Adam, had borne nothing but ling and whortle-berries.

The Black Dwarf 2004

I see her swift foot dash the dew from the whortle, 5

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Thus she traveled three days together, having nothing to eat or drink but water and green whortle-berries.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

There were May flowers, violets and anemonies, in spring time; box, whortle, and black berries, in summer, and acorns and walnuts in autumn.

No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey Various

The ground sloped upwards after a while, and he tore up the incline, breathing deep and hard; down into a shallow valley, leaping gorse bushes, crashing through whortle and meadowsweet, stumbling over peat-cuttings and the workings of forgotten tin-mines.

Uncanny Tales Various