savin

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But Granville also helped women end their pregnancies by administering herbs such as savin in his private practice.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2022

One of these plant extracts, savin, which comes from juniper bushes, was particularly effective and also plentiful in the United States.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2022

Last week Governor Woodring sent a telegram of many hundred words to President Hoover, saying he was "astonished and appalled" that no plan for savin?

From Time Magazine Archive

Hamlick’s father wuz pizoned, and his mother married agin afore her mournin clothes wuz wore out—suthin no savin, prudent woman would do; but what wuz that to wat A. Johnson endoors every day?

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Nast, Thomas

The weather had been some cooler and less stuff had sp'iled on our hands; that accounted for the savin'.

From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.