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Checkerberry   Listen
noun
Checkerberry  n.  (pl. checkerberries)  (Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).






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"Checkerberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... the gliding craft. The moonbeam and the lash of the driver fell softly on the flanks of the off horse, and only the surging of the tow-rope broke the silence. Folair's arm clasped my waist. I suffered it to remain. Placing in my lap a small but not ungrateful roll of checkerberry lozenges, he took the occasion to repeat softly in my ear the words of a motto he had just unwrapped—with its graceful covering of the tissue paper—from a sugar almond. The heart of the wicked little ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... was always kind to him, and quite often, when. Mrs. Pike was not near, would give him a checkerberry lozenge. Mr. Bill Hen's face was good-natured, to be sure, but oh, how coarse and red and stupid it was beside the fine dark sleeping mask! Why did people look so different, and more when they were asleep than any other time? Did one's ...
— Nautilus • Laura E. Richards



Words linked to "Checkerberry" :   ground-berry, Gaultheria, berry, genus Gaultheria, oil of wintergreen, shrublet, wintergreen oil, groundberry, mountain tea, creeping wintergreen, boxberry



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