"Saint john's" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turquoise is of advantage against melancholy, quartan fever, and heart failure. He attests finally that sapphire preserves courage and keeps the members vigorous, while emerald, hung about one's neck, keeps away Saint John's evil and breaks ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans
... the night before Saint John's, In the fullness of the moon, When that wild and spectral hunt Fills the Hollow Way ...
— Atta Troll • Heinrich Heine
... apartment. Lambourne lingered, to drink a cup of the freshly-opened flask. "It is from Saint John's-Berg," he said, as he paused on the draught to enjoy its flavour, "and has the true relish of the violet. But I must forbear it now, that I may one day drink it at my own pleasure." And he quaffed a goblet of water to quench the fumes of the Rhenish ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott |
