Crossword-Solution: HERBS 5 letters, 135 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

And when all the guests had finished, Old Nokomis, brisk and busy, From an ample pouch of otter, Filled the red-stone pipes for smoking With tobacco from the South-land, Mixed with bark of the red willow, And with herbs and leaves of fragrance.

Here in close recess With Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused _Eve_ deckt first her Nuptial Bed, And heav’nly Quires the Hymenaean sung, What day the genial Angel to our Sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn’d, More lovely then _Pandora_, whom the Gods Endowd with all thir gifts, and O too like In sad event, when to the unwiser Son Of _Japhet_ brought by _Hermes_, she ensnar’d Mankind with her faire looks, to be aveng’d On him who had stole _Joves_ authentic fire.

All sorts of weeds and herbs and flowers had grown up there; splotches of wild larkspur, pale green-and-white spikes of hoarhound, plantations of wild cotton, tangles of foxtail and wild wheat.

She had dressed the hive with herbs and honey, fetched a ladder, brush, and crook, made herself impregnable with armour of leather gloves, straw hat and large gauze veil—once green but now faded to snuff colour—and ascended a dozen rungs of the ladder.

One afternoon, walking with Pearl in a retired part of the peninsula, she beheld the old physician with a basket on one arm and a staff in the other hand, stooping along the ground in quest of roots and herbs to concoct his medicine withal.