herbs

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Aedituus indeed told us that they fed on nothing but fish, like the herns and cormorants of the world, and that they were a fifth kind of cucullati newly stamped.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

The water-fowls are herns, whistling ducks, which perch, and, I believe, roost upon trees, wild geese, curlieus, and a few others, but these do not abound.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert

Among the viands at dinner were “faire and large bores’ heads served upon silver platters, with minstralsye, roasted swans, bustards, herns, bitterns, turkey chicks, curlews, godwits, &c. &c.”

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.